Underage festival | Pop review

Victoria Park, LondonAlice Glass shrieks wildly at the crowd, and they shriek back. The lead singer of rave group Crystal Castles – a band whose goal is to write a song that "can make the entire world vomit in unison"– is certainly giving it some. The watching crowd could just have well gone to a house of mirrors, screamed at our own reflections, added arcade-game effects, and got exactly the same experience. This is music as spectacle. And at Underage festival, an event for 14- to 18-year-...

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