First Philly show in almost a year! Yeasayer are from Brooklyn and their debut album came out to much acclaim in 2008 on Monitor Records. It's like Fleetwood Mac, Akron/Family, Paul Simon, Arcade Fire, Cree chant, schoolyard songs. It's dancing alone under a streetlight, in your room with the lights on, or in a club on those hot strange first hours of the new year. It's a night garden. It's a pop song. It's soft rock, New Wave, and art music. It's got heart-thump drums, distant xylophone, clarinet, guitars, voices in harmony. It's got piano and backwards-playing tape. It's got the kitchen sink -- and all these things under starlight. At SXSW they provided tambourine, dance moves & backup vocals at a Hanson gig. Now they're opening for Frog Eyes. I should not have to tell you to pay attention to a band cherished by both the creators of "MMMbop" and "One in Six Children Will Flee in Boats". I should not have to tell you, friends, but still I'm going to: PAY ATTENTION.

Sleigh Bells are just a duo -- Derek on beat production, guitars, and songwriting; Alexis Krauss on vocals -- but their tracks ram together many sonic worlds. Their electronic beats thud with gut-rattling low end; guitars are distorted siren squalls or heavily gated and thoroughly crunched power chords or playful, beach bum strums. Krauss flips easily from hip-hop hook sass, to pop power to sunshined, coquettish coos. Getting all sorts of hype and attention in 2010!