"Perhaps it was our collective ages (millennials and Gen-X'ers who once naively thought George W. Bush would be the worst president of our lifetime) or the fact that it was a Monday evening, but the energy was less a frenzied electricity and more a grounded glow-radiating from bodies softer than the ones we squeezed into American Apparel bodysuits twenty years ago."
"The Los Angeles-based indie band formed in 1998 and released five studio albums, ending with their most commercially successful album, Under the Blacklight, in 2007. Bandmates Jenny Lewis, Blake Sennet, Pierre de Reeder, and Jason Boesel are all definitely Gen X, but their sentimental and often twee folk, with deep-cutting and spirited lyrics, were solidified in the early aughts, an era when millennials were forming their yet-to-be mocked identities: earnest and a bit self-indulgent. Shortly after Blacklight, the foursome went their separate ways."
A trip to the Upper East Side led to Central Park's Summer Stage for Rilo Kiley's first New York City shows in over 17 years. Cool, early‑fall weather encouraged layered early‑aughts outfits and a mellow, appreciative crowd of millennials and Gen‑Xers. A full moon added to the nostalgic atmosphere as audience members reacted with warm recognition rather than frenzied excitement. The Los Angeles band formed in 1998, released five studio albums culminating with Under the Blacklight in 2007, and then split. Band members Jenny Lewis, Blake Sennet, Pierre de Reeder, and Jason Boesel embodied sentimental, twee folk with incisive, spirited lyrics.
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