Do RS readers even know who Schoolyard Heroes are? In case RS readers were curious, these are the Schoolyard Heroes. Photo by Scott Eklund/Seattle Post-Intelligencer Well, looks like Seattle's favorite band of ghoulish rocks stars is all grown up now.

Either that or the publicity from their new label is making an impact early. Here's Ryann's response to the question: "Edward Gorey's The Gashlycrumb Tinies is a personal favorite. The art and poetry is both adorable and slightly disturbing.

You can read the entire article In other SYH news, the band completely tore it up on stage at El Corazon Friday. The set started out with a sound glitch, and it sounded like they were playing a new song too. The microphone wasn't working and Ryann, being the devastatingly deathly mutated cross between Gwent Stefani, Courtney Love and Karen O.

that she is, just went with it, rocking out while singing, thrashing, gyrating and undulating all over the stage and even jumping into the crowd. Even without words the band is a blast to watch. New songs from "Abominations," which has been pushed back to a Sept.

18 release, were performed including "Dude, Where's My Skin?" which features the catchy chorus of "Take off your skin and dance for me" and the creepy "Cemetery Girls." Fan favorites such as "Body Shots," "Mechanical Man" and "Dawn of the Dead" were also in the set and the rarely performed live "Contra" (EC's personal favorite in the SYH canon) popped up too.

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