Young the Giant review: Indie rock band delights in stripped

When I learned Young the Giant — clearly one of the better indie rock groups of the last 15 or so years — would be playing a relatively small show at Pappy and Hariet’s in Pioneertown, I was delighted.

Although it's been a few years since the band released most of its biggest hits, the group is still big enough to play most shows at significantly larger venues than the high desert’s 850-person capacity gem, including a recent show at a not-so-little spot called Fenway Park (an opener gig for The Lumineers).