Warpaint’s Jenny Lee Lindberg is relaxed when she’s reached in San Francisco in the middle of a shoe-shopping expedition, her state of mind considerably better than just a few days previous.

The bassist reports that she’s just come off playing Coachella, the megafestival that’s grown to become one of the most important concert events of the calender year for North American music fans. That meant getting the chance to stand in the catering lineup with artists ranging from Muse to Motörhead. The shortlist of talent also included the likes of Skrillex, Lana Del Ray, OutKast, Arcade Fire, Beck, and Bryan Ferry.

That high-wattage lineup, predictably, brought out a laundry list of celebrities eager to make the scene. Those who arrived on-site with backstage VIP passes in hand to protect them from the common rabble included Katy Perry, Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Emma Roberts, Paris Hilton, and Lindsay Lohan.

None of those folks had Lindberg feeling particularly on edge, however. Her anxiety was sparked by performing for those a little more entrenched in her inner circle.

“When you play a show close to home there are always people in the audience that you know and people that you care about,” Lindberg says from a Haight-Ashbury store, where the clerk is busy ringing in her footwear purchase. “For some reason—and I have no idea why—some people feel more comfortable when their friends and family are in the audience. But for me, all it does is make me nervous. I guess because it’s because they know me in a more personal way, not just someone you see on-stage performing.”

The bassist is used to hanging out with the famous and over-photographed, with some of Warpaint’s earliest fans including actor Billy Zane and the late Heath Ledger. These days the quartet is attracting as much attention for its music as for who is at its shows, with the band’s recently released sophomore album, Warpaint, winning accolades for its atmospheric mix of tribal rhythms, fog-shrouded synths, and sprites-in-the-forest vocals. Helping give the songs a dense and impressively layered feel is high-profile producer Flood, the end result being circa-now chill-out music for those whose iPods contain everything ever released by the Cocteau Twins and Massive Attack.

“With our music, there is not a wide range of emotions in the songs,” Lindberg says. “It’s not like you can tell from a song ‘Ooh—we’re super happy’ or “Ooh—we’re super sad’ or “Ooh—we really feel like dancing right now.’ Whatever mood we are in, or whatever emotion we are in, what we are after is a sexy element. Whenever I write a song, I want it to make me want to move my lower hips, move my body, shake my booty.”

The best part of having met those goals with Warpaint is she’s presumably got a whole new set of reasons to shake what her mama gave her on-stage, the only downside being a bad case of the nerves when the front row is 90 percent friends and family.

Warpaint plays the Rickshaw on Sunday (May 4).