Cheated hearts.

Photo credit: Rachel Warner

Yeah Yeah Yeahs w/ Blood on the Wall — The Tro­cadero April 5, 2006

Show Your Bones may not sat­is­fy fans look­ing for pre­tenders to The Pre­tenders hard-bit­ten vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty, but enig­mat­ic, extro­vert­ed front­woman Karen O. still pro­vides good val­ue for the enter­tain­ment dol­lar, prov­ing that the mil­lenial hype for the New York sound was­n’t com­plete­ly off the mark.

Con­sid­er­ing that record­ing Show Your Bones near­ly destroyed the band, YYY’s aren’t the self-sat­is­fied garage rock card­board cutouts The Strokes proved to be, and even with Liq­uid Liq­uid seep­ing in to “Phe­nom­e­na”, they haven’t gone total­ly DFA either, leav­ing them in an elec­tro-acoustic no man’s land of sorts, which isn’t entire­ly a bad thing.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs — “Gold Lion”