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Believing is Art

Almost a year to the day after their not-quite-secret show at Trophy's, Spoon returned to Austin's live arena with two sold-out nights at La Zona Rosa. "I have to go find my parents," nodded frontman Britt Daniel after a brief chat Friday. "I think they're lost." Though Thursday's set began with "Utilitarian" from 1998's A Series of Sneaks, both shows otherwise drew from their last three albums, Girls Can Tell, Kill the Moonlight, and Gimme Fiction, until the encore, when they pulled out the adjunct to debut Telephono, 1997's Soft Effects EP. Considering a good two-thirds of the crowd on hand was in junior high when those came out, it was a scrappy tribute to the band's Electric Lounge origins. Austin stays with you like that. Watching a late-night set by the Arm on Friday at the Red Eyed Fly, Daniel, who moved to Portland late last year to join his girlfriend, acknowledged he'd be around "a lot" this spring working on new material. Spoon will also open Echo & the Bunnymen's free Auditorium Shores SXSW show March 16. Like the man said, if there's anything you want, come on back 'cause it's all still here.