2010 in Concert Photos

Alexis Krauss of Sleigh Bells, Coachella, April 2010 (full set)

Thomas Mars of Phoenix, Coachella, April 2010 (full set)

Romy Madley Smith and Oliver Sim of The xx, Coachella, April 2010 (full set)

Matt Bellamy of Muse, Coachella, April 2010 (full set)

Polvo and Les Savy Fav at Northside Festival, Newtown Barge Park, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, June 27, 2010

Another Northside Festival has come and gone. Polvo served up a hot plate of start-stop-quiet-loud rock with tons of complicated chord changes. It was a late-nineties indie explosion!

Band of Horses with Grizzly Bear and Karen Elson, Williamsburg Waterfront, Brooklyn, June 20, 2010

Band of Horses headlined a very not-free show at the Williamsburg Waterfront (which will ostensibly be the home of another slate of free summer shows at some point in the near future). You can check out the schedule of remaining paid shows over at (ironically enough) FREEwilliamsburg. The state police were out en masse to enforce the downright byzantine alcohol and crowd-control rules. It was all a bit like running through a maze, but your only reward at the end was a tiny cup of $6 beer.

Karen Elson (aka Mrs. Jack White) and her band—all dressed in matching peach-colored outfits—started the show with a nice set of easy, country-fried rock, which ended with a cover of Donovan's "Season of the Witch."

Yeah Yeah Yeahs Play New York's Museum of Modern Art, May 25, 2010

Karen O and Nick Zinner of Yeah Yeah Yeahs at MoMA Two thirds of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs played an acoustic set at my place of work last night as part of The Museum of Modern Art's annual Party in the Garden benefit. Along with a three-piece string section, Imaad Wasif played guitar and Jon Spencer Blues Explosion's Russell Simins took over for usual YYYs drummer Brian Chase, who, according to Karen O, was "in Australia playing jazz drums."

The band was introduced by a noticeably tipsy Hugh Jackman, who I'm guessing just happened to be the biggest celebrity in attendance:

Hugh Jackman and MoMA Director of Special Events Nicholas Apps introduce Yeah Yeah Yeahs
A picture of the full setlist is available over at Brooklyn Vegan. More pictures after the jump, and there are plenty more in the full Flickr set).