Blog: Cannibal Cheerleader

Watching the rabid gyrations of Karen O perform at the Austin City Limits Festival earlier this month with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs stunned us at Cannibal Cheerleader so completely, so devastatingly as to inspire a month-long self-imposed exile from the blogging community. The blazingly electric setlist, featuring carnal classics like "Gold Lion" and "Maps", new-wave crooners like "Skeletons" and "Runaway", and neurotically ferocious takes on barn-burners such as "Date With the Night" and "Dull Life", may go down as so utterly picture-perfect as to inspire every other band to call it a day. [...]