For the second year in a row, twin sisters and collaborators Katie and Allison Crutchfield (fresh off their short Snocaps tour) and actress and comedian D’Arcy Carden celebrated their shared birthday with a guest-filled, all-covers Los Angeles show. This year’s edition happened at El Rey Theatre, and on hand for the occasion were Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein (who joined them in a cover of Sonic Youth’s “Kool Thing,” writing “fulfilled my teenage dreams of covering Kool Thing” in an Instagram story), MUNA’s Katie Gavin (who did Peaches’ “Fuck the Pain Away”), Audrey Hobert (who covered one Direction’s “Steal My Girl”), former SNL castmembers Bowen Yang (who covered Phantom Planet’s “California”) and Will Forte (Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs”), Kevin Morby (who did Oasis’ “Champagne Supernova”), Whitmer Thomas (who covered Sheryl Crow’s “If It Makes you Happy”), and still more.
Katie sang lead on a rendition of The Cranberries’ “Dreams,” Allison on Hole’s “Celebrity Skin” and Michelle Branch’s “Everywhere,” and D’Arcy on Weezer’s “Say It Ain’t So” and Cake’s “The Distance.” Everyone came back out for the finale, a rendition of The Who’s “Baba O’Riley.” The whole thing looked like a lot of fun and you can watch attendee-taken video below.
Snocaps, whose surprise 2025 debut album we named one of the last year’s best, have just one more show on the horizon, as part of Wilco’s Sky Blue Sky destination festival later this month. Katie and MJ Lenderman are also going on a solo tour together this year.
SETLIST
Last Nite (The Strokes cover)
Dreams (The Cranberries cover with Will Forte, Katie Crutchfield singing lead)
Say It Ain’t So (Weezer cover, D’Arcy Carden singing lead)
Celebrity Skin (Hole cover, Allison Crutchfield singing lead)
If It Makes You Happy (Sheryl Crow cover with Whitmer Thomas)
Champagne Supernova (Oasis cover with Kevin Morby)
Everywhere (Michelle Branch cover, Allison Crutchfield singing lead)
You Get What You Give (New Radicals cover with Kyle Mooney)
Steal My Girl (One Direction cover with Audrey Hobert)
Overkill (Men at Work cover with Sam Richardson)
Fuck the Pain Away (Peaches cover with Katie Gavin)
Kool Thing (Sonic Youth cover with Carrie Brownstein)
The Distance (CAKE cover, D’Arcy Carden singing lead)
California (Phantom Planet cover with Bowen Yang)
War Pigs (Black Sabbath cover with Will Forte)
Baba O’Riley (The Who cover)