So last Thursday, We Barbarians and Ima Robot graced the UCLA campus with their presence to play a free show for us. If you slept on this, you should kick yourself..but not too hard. The show was great, We Barbarians killed it live, even with the bad audio and lighting. This was my second time seeing them perform and they didn’t fail to impress. The three of them put out a really spacious sound that captivates you to every extent possible. I would highly recommend getting their E.P. and seeing them play at Silver Lake. Or, you could listen to Log Jammin’ on Fridays 10-12(plug!) as we will be playing a good amount of the EP. If you are unfamiliar with the band, they sound like Cold War Kids because they are also from Long Beach and they happen to be really close friends with them (if you didn’t notice, the bass player from CWK was there). But We Barbarians is more obscure, spacy, and intimate than Cold War Kids because of their in your face performance and Dave’s smooth vocals. The one complain about their performance was the lighting, they should have just turned off the lights and brought in some colored lamps! WE Barbarians got to play a full set which was neat because it was damn good and worth watching. Ima Robot took the stage without a synth player therefore limiting the amount of old material that could be played. They opened their set with a couple hippied out tracks featuring some awesome dancing and some syncopated drum beats. They finally played some older material such as Let’s talk Turkey and Scream but the audience was asking and waiting for Dirty Lifer and Dynomite (which never came). It was disappointing because they could not play a full set and with the lack of a synth player the performance was a little disappointing. Regardless, it was a kick ass show and you shouldn’t a missed it.

–Curren