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<\/p>\nIf you were into poppy electronic\/alternative rock between the ages of puberty and quitting your first soul-sucking adult job in the mid-2000s, the newly announced lineup for the Just Like Heaven festival in May probably looks divine.<\/p>\n
Phoenix, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, MGMT, Beach House, Passion Pit (touring for the 10th anniversary of Manners<\/i>, no less), that one band with the annoying whistling song that you\u2019re now nostalgic for, and a host of other acts that were on your iPod Mini back in the day are all coming to Long Beach’s Queen Mary Events Park on May 4.<\/p>\n
It\u2019ll be a chance to watch MGMT begrudgingly perform an eight-minute version of \u201cKids\u201d to make up for the years they refused to play it and realize how few songs by The Faint you actually know despite telling people you\u2019ve loved them for the last decade. You\u2019ll be able to dance your heart out to Miike Snow while spending the last $12 of your tax return on a Modelo. Then sing along to the chorus of \u201cTear You Apart\u201d by She Wants Revenge even though you used to know every word to that whole record because of that one roommate who loved them back in college.<\/p>\n
And all of it will be happening right next to everyone\u2019s favorite uber-haunted maritime attraction.<\/p>\n
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Just Like Heaven will surely be the perfect day-long dose of musical nostalgia while you marvel at how much older your favorite bands, and their fans, look before going home, only to realize you\u2019re closing in on how old your parents were when Yeah Yeah Yeahs\u2019 Fever to Tell<\/i> came out, causing you to ponder your own mortality.<\/p>\n
As with virtually any festival that size at the Queen Mary these days, those big names come with the type of price tag that only the juggernaut of AEG\/Goldenvoice (cue \u201cImperial March<\/a>\u201d) can bring to the Southland. Of course, the distinct lack of diversity at Just Like Heaven means there probably won\u2019t be anywhere near the same level of controversy surrounding it as there was for last year\u2019s Tropicalia<\/a>, but it still would\u2019ve been a nice opportunity for the massive music empire to pander to the hometown crowd a bit outside of their Summertime in the LBC festival.<\/p>\n But perhaps the widespread geographic lineup will bring in some out-of-state tourists instead of the usual LA\/OC crowd that fills Pine Avenue with comments like \u201cIt\u2019s too expensive to Uber all the way here, but we should totally visit Long Beach more!\u201d and \u201cI haven\u2019t been to Long Beach since we took a field trip to the aquarium in third grade.\u201d After all, it looks like there are as many acts from both Sweden and France as there are from Southern California\u00a0so that practically makes Shiny Toy Guns seem as local as Warren G.<\/p>\n Regardless of what kind of crowd it draws, or what issues people take with it, Just Like Heaven shows that AEG is willing to continue to expand its festival offerings in Long Beach, and that\u2019s a whole lot better than the alternative. The huge events may not make up entirely for the radius clause hell that Long Beach sits in, but introducing the downtown area to people who\u2019ve only experienced the city through Snoop Dogg and\/or grade school trips can only be a good thing in the long run. For the fans, it\u2019s also a much improved non-L.A. option over the zombie apocalypse-like situations that have occurred in the Observatory\u2019s Santa Ana parking lot (see: Soulquarius<\/a>) or the logistical disaster that Oak Canyon Park proved to be<\/a>.<\/p>\n As for the locals who aren\u2019t amused by the ridiculous increase in traffic, trash and drunkeness that comes with festivals, it\u2019s an understandable position. But if we\u2019re going to have to work three jobs to afford the $3,000 monthly rent to live within earshot of the Queen Mary anyway, we might as well be able to hear Karen O remind us that they don\u2019t love us like she<\/em> loves us while we do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Phoenix, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, MGMT and a host of other acts that were on your iPod Mini back in the day are all coming to Long Beach for the Just Like Heaven festival, May 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":256,"featured_media":65771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[172],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[5459],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-music-festival","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}