While double-checking info about Tuesday night's Yeah Yeah Yeahs show at the Pageant, I noticed that "Pajo" had been added to the openers, along with Grand Ole Party. Some Internet research verified that it is indeed a performance from David Pajo, a.k.a. the Slint co-founder and artist also known as Papa M. Pajo has been playing with the YYYs too (although no word if he's also with them tomorrow night, I'm assuming he is) and been busy recording a vinyl-only collection of Misfits covers, Scream
Photo: Todd OwyoungKaren O. of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs at the Pageant. More photos here.Yeah Yeah Yeahs' singer Karen O has crafted a persona as a shabby-chic fashion icon, a vulnerable diva, and some sort of female version of Iggy Pop. She has dated music video director Spike Jonze and is involved in the soundtrack to the highly anticipated film adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are. As the audience anxiously awaited the band's entrance last evening, their eagerness was twofold -- not only were 3
Warped Tour isn't for the faint of heart, especially on a hot August day in St. Louis. But an unforgiving sun didn't prevent the area's bros, punks, misfits, meatheads, horndogs, scene queens, nerds and foxes from converging on the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater for the tour's fifteenth-anniversary jaunt.
Hordes of red-faced kids traipsed between stages in packs, pausing only to buy overpriced food, meet their favorite bands or peruse any number of tents hawking causes, condoms or merchandise.
AFI
Where: The Pageant
With: Gallows
Sounds Like: Post-everything -- hardcore, punk, electro, rock, pop and goth. The band's new album, Crash Love, rails against the emptiness of fame and shallowness of modern culture, and features some of the catchiest, tightest songwriting of its career.
RIYL: The Smiths, Misfits, Alkaline Trio
MP3: AFI, "Ziggy Stardust" (David Bowie cover)
