Being at a People Under the Stairs show is kinda like being back in 1999, or wait, is it more like 1989? The fact is, the group’s organic loop-based hip-hop style has gone in and out favor over the past two decades (think The Pharcyde, A Tribe Called Quest and Jurassic 5), but judging by the blissful grins and pumping fists of the mostly 18-24-year-old crowd on Friday afternoon at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio CA, right now it’s certainly enjoying another resurgence. PUTS played at 3pm to a full and verging-on-rabid tent of fans, their eyes transfixed and mouths rapping the lyrics right along with Thes One and Double K, the group’s two MCs. PUTS’ set consisted of a medley of old songs as well as new releases from their current album, Fun DMC. The crowd’s enthusiasm never waned; in fact it might have even increased when the duo performed songs from The Next Step, released in 1998 and Question in the Form of an Answer, 2000.
