Boy with Young Summer at Jammin' Java

In the future I'll try to get these posts up faster. Anyways, Boy, a Swiss/German pop duo, was at Jammin' Java last Thursday, March 28, and Young Summer opened for them. For relatively unknown groups, they were both amazing! Boy has gotten some attention recently with "Little Numbers" in the United States, but I had never heard of Young Summer. Boy has one album out, Mutual Friends, which was released in 2011, but Young Summer hasn't released a full album yet.

Young Summer only has one song on iTunes, "Fever Dream" but "Why Try" is on Spotify. They announced that they have an album coming out in May. "Why Try" was also being featured on the TV show The Vampire Diaries the same night of the concert, which was pretty cool.

Young Summer at Jammin' Java

Boy started with a song I didn't recognize, but then played most of their songs on the album. What I found interesting was that the singer, Valeska Steiner, and the guitarist, Sonja Glass, both had very thick accents. Their music is entirely in English, and I'd never noticed an accent before.

Boy at Jammin' Java

Boy at Jammin' Java

Boy at Jammin' Java

The last song they played in the regular set was "Little Numbers" but then they came out for an encore. The first song of their encore was a song called "Zapping" that I had never heard of, it was slower, showed off a great voice, and seemed almost jazzy in a way. Their very last song was a cover of "Lonely Boy" by The Black Keys! I love The Black Keys and was a little worried they would butcher it, especially since they had to play it in a different key so Valeska Steiner could sing it, but it was surprisingly very good!

My biggest complaint of the night has nothing to do with either Boy or Young Summer. It is simply that a three stall restroom is not big enough for a sold out show at Jammin' Java. Besides that long wait I had a great time!

Album Cover of Mutual Friends