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May 6, 2008 Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fall Out Boy, Angels & Airways DLC!

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs—“Date With the Night”
The New York band’s semi-ballad hit “Maps” is already a popular Rock Band track, but here’s where the band shows its true, quirkier colors. At 2:36 it may be the shortest non-Ramones track in the whole game, but it’s a mighty frantic 2:36 with a fractured funk bassline, all-over-the-place drum part, and plenty of shouts, gurgles and non-sequitor lyrics for you to shout in your sexiest Karen O voice…especially if you’re a guy.

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May 7, 2008 New Orleans Rock Blog

Brett in New Orleans
I’m standing on a muddy field in New Orleans during the final set of this year’s Jazz & Heritage Festival, watching one of the city’s flagship bands, the Radiators, do a funkafied version of Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire.” And there is no way in the world that I’m about to move from this spot. Not because the band is great, though they are; and not because the sunset is gorgeous, though it is. The real reason I’m not moving is that fresh mud in Louisiana is exactly like quicksand, and I’m up to my ankles.

It goes without saying that anyone who visits New Orleans nowadays has no right to complain about a little water. And the city’s annual music binge, the Jazz & Heritage Festival (which despite the name, features rock, jazz, funk, R&B and almost everything else) has continued on without interruption. The 2006 festival happened just six months after Katrina, when tourists had to drive past rows of demolished houses and abandoned cars to reach the fairgrounds. That still ranks with the most emotional musical events I’ve been to; a three-day mix of healing songs, righteous anger and joys of the moment. One of that year’s headliners, Bruce Springsteen, capped things off with a version of “My City of Ruins” that combined all of the above.

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