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De Lux performs at the Pike. Photos by Brian Addison.<\/em><\/p>\n Summer and Music, Long Beach\u2019s veteran music festival, has not just cemented its place as the go-to music series in Long Beach as each year amps up the quality of its lineup, it is proving to be the series of events that is putting Long Beach on the map as a multi-leveled venue.<\/p>\n Three weeks after Dancin\u2019 in the Streets kicked off the series by taking over the Promenade<\/a> with the Allah-Lahs<\/a>, Twisted at the Pike took the normally-desolate Pike area and did the improbable; made it fun and accessible, while procuring a set of headlining acts worthy of the El Rey and placing them in front of a sunsetting beach locale that LA could only dream of.<\/p>\n The musical highlight of the evening despite not having the headlining spot is unquestionably De Lux<\/a>, the LA dance-punk band who have proved to music lovers that the void left by LCD Soundsystem\u2019s breakup will not be left entirely empty.<\/p>\n The KCRW darlings\u2014Jason Bentley not only has them on repeat but even uses their music for Morning Becomes Eclectic\u2019s advertising\u2014opened with \u201cSometimes Your Friends Are Not Your Friends\u201d from their Innovative Leisure label debut Voyage<\/em> (a brilliant nod to the New York disco greats). 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Local (and wildly underrated) band Wild Pack of Canaries<\/a> [pictured right], who recently found a home on Porch Party Records<\/a>, opened the evening with their horn-driven, experimental prog-rock sound that proved Long Beach is as musically talented as it is outright strange. The winners of 2011\u2019s Buskerfest (which is coming up this year on September 6), the Canaries’ energetic, schizophrenic style and sound, and all over the place stage presence (literally: don\u2019t be shocked to find members, as they were during this performance, running around the stage, jumping off it, running around in circles\u2026) make it hard not to move your feet.<\/p>\n![\"Twisted03\"](\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Twisted03.jpg\")
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If one didn’t know Fartbarf [pictured left], it would be easy to assume\u2014much like the company I brought\u2014that they are some juvenile punk crap that throws their shit together on stage in an awesome-or-awful display. But Fartbarf is kind of like Daft Punk\u2019s puke: the \u201cGive us knobs or give us death!\u201d trio of neanderthal-mask-sportin\u2019 astronauts blends beats that are impossible not to dance to with grimey, distorted vocals in a sort of unapologetic mixture of Chromeo and The Faint. Whether you want to dance (which the majority of the crowd did) or mosh (which succeeded in, getting full-blown unruly by the last few songs of the set), Fartbarf brings together both the Disco set and the headbangers in sweaty, grooving camaraderie. <\/p>\n