Young & Sick christen Liberty Stage at Made in America

Young & Sick baptized the Liberty Stage early Saturday afternoon with "Continuum," a representative slice of the L.A. band's synth-driven dream-pop.

Young & Sick is usually described as an art and music project, because it is better known for the artistic album covers it has designed for Robin Thicke, Maroon 5, and others than it is for its own songs.

With Dutch-born frontman Nick Van Hofwegen playing guitar, they went from to romantic ("Heartache") to jagged ("Valium") to kinetic ("Glass").

It was a tough gig with a diffident crowd still drifting in. In the middle of "Ghost," Young & Sick's seventh song, their performance suddenly became muted because Cherub had started playing on the nearby Rocky Stage. It was the Made in America equivalent of being "played off" in the middle of your acceptance speech at an awards show.
                                                                                                                           -- David Hiltbrand

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