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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Wednesday-music.com looks back at indie darlings Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Posted by Jason Green on Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:05 PM
In the famous year 2000, Karen O (vocals, piano), Nick Zinner (guitars, keyboard) and Brian Chase (drums) formed Yeah Yeah Yeahs in NYC. Karen and Brian originally met at Ohio's Oberlin College; she met nick at a bar after transferring to NYU. Originally, Karen O and Nick were a folk duo called Unitard, but were more inspired by the punk scene. Soon after, Brian joined the lineup and the new wave/art punk/garage rock Yeah Yeah Yeahs were born.
In 2003, after supporting The Strokes, The White Stripes, Björk, Sleater-Kinney, Girls Against Boys and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion they released Fever to Tell, their first LP which NME recently placed at number 5 on their list of the “Best Albums of the Decade”. Their 2006 release, Show Your Bones is according to Karen O, "what happens when you put your finger in a light socket" and was rated the second best album of 2006 by NME.
Karen O contributed her version of Bob Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited" to the soundtrack of the film I'm Not There and appears on the Where the Wild Things Are soundtrack (directed by her ex, Spike Jonze).
Click here for a live gig recorded at D.C.'s 9:30 Club on April 03, 2006 by NPR’s All Songs Considered. Click here for an All Things Considered story from September 30, 2003. Click here for an April 16, 2006 interview from MPR News Q. Click here for a June 03, 2009 interview from Minnesota Public Radio's The Current. Visit the band’s myspace page here and website here.
Check here to see if Yeah Yeah Yeahs have any gigs scheduled near you. Please go if you have the opportunity, Karen O is über-charismatic on stage with her awesome Flashdance inspired/Christian Joy designed wardrobe.
As always, whenever possible, please buy your music from your local independent music store by people who know and love music and not from retailers like Wal-Mart (soulless, globally-homogenizing, community-killers) or i-Tunes (albums should be listened to as an entire composition with album cover and liner notes in hand). Incidentally, these two companies sell more music than any other retailer in the United States. That my friend, bites.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs; what a feeling.
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