Friday, April 14, 2006
Concert Review: Yeah Yeah Yeahs @ Kool Haus
10/4/06
This Monday, Yeah Yeah Yeahs rolled though the Kool Haus and
performed tracks from their sophmore album 'Show Your Bones'. I've never seen YYYs before but Karen O and co. didn't dissapoint. She was intense and clearly having a lot of fun onstage. Whether spraying out her beer everywhere fountain-style , trying to eat her mic during 'Art Star' or wearing a half a disco ball as a hat; the show was great. The opening band were the anti-YYYs, Blood on the Wall were a greasy-haired stained-T-Shirt-wearing garage rock band who were actually pretty good.
YYYs have added a 4th member, Imaad Waasif, who played acoustic guitar for all the new songs. Although Karen gets all the attention (and deservedly so), you gotta give the drummer some. Brian Chase is an amazing drummer who fuses jazz style syncopation with the necessary hard rock crash and fills. The highlight for me was during Art Star when Nick's guitar shorted out on him during the soft part and he just kept the distortion going. It was definately a fun, high energy show. Here's the setlist:
Gold Lion/Honeybear/Black tongue/Fancy/Phenomena/Mysteries/Cheated Hearts/Dudley/The Sweets/Y Control/Miles Away/Turn Into/
Encores:Maps/Warrior/Tick/Art Star/Modern Romance/Date With The Night
This Monday, Yeah Yeah Yeahs rolled though the Kool Haus and
performed tracks from their sophmore album 'Show Your Bones'. I've never seen YYYs before but Karen O and co. didn't dissapoint. She was intense and clearly having a lot of fun onstage. Whether spraying out her beer everywhere fountain-style , trying to eat her mic during 'Art Star' or wearing a half a disco ball as a hat; the show was great. The opening band were the anti-YYYs, Blood on the Wall were a greasy-haired stained-T-Shirt-wearing garage rock band who were actually pretty good.YYYs have added a 4th member, Imaad Waasif, who played acoustic guitar for all the new songs. Although Karen gets all the attention (and deservedly so), you gotta give the drummer some. Brian Chase is an amazing drummer who fuses jazz style syncopation with the necessary hard rock crash and fills. The highlight for me was during Art Star when Nick's guitar shorted out on him during the soft part and he just kept the distortion going. It was definately a fun, high energy show. Here's the setlist:
Gold Lion/Honeybear/Black tongue/Fancy/Phenomena/Mysteries/Cheated Hearts/Dudley/The Sweets/Y Control/Miles Away/Turn Into/
Encores:Maps/Warrior/Tick/Art Star/Modern Romance/Date With The Night
# posted by Chief @ 3:26 p.m. 
