CSS

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating

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Last 12 Months Rating

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Critic Consensus

Based on 49 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that CSS is rated as an entertaining live performer, with many notable strengths. CSS concert reviews describe live shows and performances as memorable and high-energy.

ON TOUR

Brookside at the Rose Bowl; Black Cat DC, Pasadena, United States; Washington D.C., United States (May 18; May 3); Webster Hall, New York, United States (May 4); Lincoln Hall, Chicago, United States (May 8); Utah State Fair Park, Salt Lake City(, Utah), United States (May 10); Brookside at the Rose Bowl, Pasadena, United States (May 18); Drygate Brewery, Glasgow, United Kingdom (June 22); XOYO, Birmingham, United Kingdom (June 25); O2 Forum Kentish Town, London, United Kingdom (June 27); Chalk, Brighton, United Kingdom (June 28); Lloyds Amphitheatre, Bristol, United Kingdom (June 30); Le Trabendo, Paris, France (July 2); LAV - Lisboa Ao Vivo, Lisbon, Portugal (July 6);

FESTIVALS IN 2024

Just Like Heaven Fest 2024

May 18, 2024

Kilby Block Party 2024

May 10 - 12, 2024

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Latest Release

Rio (Pass the Baton) (July 29, 2016)

Artist Info

Genre

electronic

Origin

(2003 - present) (2003 – present)

Bio

Cansei de Ser Sexy (commonly known as CSS) is a band from Sao Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2003. The band name is Portuguese for "Tired of Being Sexy" (taken from something Beyonce once commented to the press: "I am tired of being sexy").

Has Performed With

Sleigh Bells, MS MR, Mixhell

Critic Concert Reviews

Panic Manual (Canada)

July 2, 2013

The way I see it, when a fan buys a ticket to an artist’s show, the artist is promising something worth seeing.

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Spectrum Culture (USA)

June 23, 2013

The band’s high-energy 2006 debut album was still sizzling on my iPod even as their spanking new sophomore effort was receiving mixed reviews.

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Grimy Goods (USA)

June 17, 2013

CSS with MS MR and IO ECHO at Fonda Theatre

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GetIntoThis (UK)

May 22, 2013

It’s been a strange couple of years for Brazilian rockers CSS (Cansei De Ser Sexy, which literally translates as ‘I got tired of being sexy’).

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musicOMH (UK)

May 17, 2013

Tonight’s set is at the teeny tiny Hoxton Square Bar + Kitchen a venue chosen presumably to test the Brazilian band’s new line-up and material at a low-key club show; the kind of sweatbox dive they should really have ripped the roof off.

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God Is In The TV Zine (UK)

May 16, 2013

Wow! The better than excellent news is that they came back apparently no older or wiser, just as bat-shit crazy as ever, and ready to blow the doors off the East Village Arts Club.

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