Yeah Yeah Yeahs' 2023 Austin City Limits Set Is Now Watchable in Full

Yeah Yeah Yeahs' 2023 Austin City Limits performance is available to watch online, and it runs eleven songs deep. The set, filmed at Zilker Park in Austin, captures the New York trio at full art-punk voltage, with Karen O steering the band from shimmering atmosphere to what the performance review calls "full-throttle dance-floor chaos."

What did the setlist contain?

The band opened with "Spitting Off the Edge of the World," then tore through "Cheated Hearts," "Pin" and "Zero." The full running order:

• Spitting Off the Edge of the World
• Cheated Hearts
• Pin
• Burning
• Zero
• Soft Shock
• Lovebomb
• Gold Lion
• Y Control
• Maps
• Heads Will Roll

Eleven songs. No padding. The structure tells its own story: the band front-loads the newer material and the art-punk signifiers, holds its two most beloved songs for the final stretch, and closes on "Heads Will Roll," the track that has functioned as a guaranteed dance floor since 2009.

Where do the set's peaks land?

"Maps" sits tenth in the order. The performance review describes it as "the aching beauty" of the set, a slow-burn contrast placed deliberately after "Y Control" and the roaring guitars of "Gold Lion." It's a familiar trick and an effective one: ten songs of swagger, then one ballad, then release. The sequencing compares to a DJ set building to a single emotional drop before the finale.

"Gold Lion" and "Y Control" kept the guitars roaring, per the account of the show, before "Heads Will Roll" delivered what the review calls "a glorious finale." Anyone who has seen the band knows the drill. Anyone who hasn't now has the evidence on video.

Why does this release matter?

The 2023 festival performance gives viewers what the original report calls "another chance to experience the band's irresistible mix of heart, swagger and explosive live energy." Festival sets by legacy acts often circulate as grainy fan footage. This one arrives as an official, watchable document of a band still capable of jumping, in a single set, from the shimmering openness of "Soft Shock" to the controlled chaos of "Heads Will Roll."

The setlist leans on the band's 2003–2009 canon while making room for "Spitting Off the Edge of the World," the opener that sets the tone before "Cheated Hearts" and "Pin" pull the room back two decades. For a three-piece, the range is the point. Karen O leads; the trio follows; the songs do the rest.

The performance is streaming now. Watch it before the internet forgets it hosted it.