After a hefty meal at Carrburritos, a quaint Mexican restaurant up here, we were not feeling too up for a show full of dancing But once we got in Cat’s Cradle and mashup artists The Hood Internet took the stage, things definitely changed. I feel that Girl Talk is so popular just because he was one of the first people to mash songs up but I would have to say that The Hood Internet were much better live. Instead of just playing their iTunes, they stayed active the whole show by twisting knobs, hitting buttons, all to make the perfect sounds for the mashup. 
The Hood Internet consists of two members, Steve Reidell and Aaron. Reidell told us that his spirit animal was a lynx, and on Aaron’s behalf that he was a manatee. He told us that he especially likes all the consonants in the word lynx. They definitely got the crowd moving, even playing their mashups involving Matt & Kim’s songs. I promise you that they’re going to continue to play bigger and bigger shows so I would suggest you get on the train. You can download all of their songs for free on http://www.thehoodinternet.com where they post new songs all of the time.
As soon as Matt & Kim took the stage, it was obvious that their show was going to be full of fun and smiles. They entered the stage with grins on their faces, and pumped up the crowd immediately. 
Something I noticed is that they never ever stopped smiling for the rest of the show, and it was genuine smiles. The fact that they were smiling made everyone in the energetic, sold-out crowd smile as well. They played for almost an hour and a half, with highlights being Good For Great, Lessons Learned, and obviously, crowd favorite Daylight. Nothing they did was boring, uninteresting, or too much, it was just perfect. You could not even tell they had such a minimalistic stage setup (Kim plays drums and Matt plays keyboard and sings, and that’s it) because of their huge sound. Before every song, they would challenge the audience by telling them that this was the one song where they needed to completely lose it. At one point, they got everyone to blow up balloons with their faces on them, and then throw them around the room.
When we met Matt after the show, he was as friendly as he seemed on stage. He told us that his spirit animal is a medium-sized canine that is always yapping and yelling but you can’t get rid of him because he’s medium-sized, not small. Unfortunately we did not get to meet Kim, but we were told that her spirit animal is a shark riding on top of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. This was completely accurate as during the set she was screaming, standing on top of her drums, and at one point, she stood on top of the crowd’s hands and did some shaking. It was intense. She also got all the guys to take off their shirts and spin them wildly around in the air, with apologies to the women, which created a large amount of sweaty, naked guys rubbing on everything. The whole show was a gigantic dance party that never faltered or failed.
The crowd consisted of a large number of tweens and their parents; there even seemed to be a “zone” where the parents were hanging out the whole show. When the doors opened, a lady went up to security guard and told her that this was her daughter’s first show and that she needed to go into the venue first to make sure that it was safe enough for her daughter. Pedro and I were thinking of going in there and start talking about how usually at shows there everyone gets a knife and a shot of tequila, but we thought that might ruin her daughter’s night. Also, the Cat’s Cradle security guard, Billy Johnson was one of the nicest security guards I had ever met, so I got his spirit animal as well. He told us that he is a black stallion, which cued a drunk guy to tell him that this was his stripper name as well, (The Black Stallion). That’s a damn good stripper name if you ask me.
You can check out Matt & Kim’s tour dates on http://mattandkimmusic.com/. They will be playing at Bonnaroo next week and all over the country in weeks to come.
Nudity is always a part of a Matt & Kim show.