Backstage Pass

Forget all the hype about Lykke Li being the Swedish Bjork. She's both more grounded -- as evidenced by her occasional cat-cat-cat hip-hop dance moves and the effortless way she busted out a version of A Tribe Called Quest's "Can I Kick It?" -- and more ethereal -- as her breathy vocals and Stevie Nicks-y shawl would suggest.

Li pulled out one surprise after another in her 50-minute set, from her live mash-up of Vampire Weekend's "Cape Cod Kwassa" with her own "Dance Dance Dance," to a stirring cover of the Wendy Rene Stax soul nugget "After Laughter Comes Tears." And she served up songs from her own "Youth Novels" debut far more passionately than the recorded version, both in the dancey "Complaint Department" and the touching ballad "Tonight."

SETLIST: Dance Dance Dance / Let It Fall / I'm Good, I'm Gone / Hanging High / Cape Cod Kwassa / Little Bit / Complaint Department / After Laughter Comes Tears / Window Blues / I Don’t Mind (Jump On It) / Breaking It Up // ENCORES: Tonight / Can I Kick It?