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Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Yeah Yeah Yeahs are a Grammy Award-nominated New York City-based rock band. The band members are lead singer Karen O, drummer Brian Chase, and guitarist Nick Zinner. Their music is a mix of retro styles with heavy rock/punk guitars, synthetic sounds with rhythmic, melodic and bluesy vocals. They formed in 2000 as a trio, and were joined by second guitarist Imaad Wasif in 2006 for touring purposes. According to an interview that aired during the ABC network's Live from Central Park Summerstage series, the band's name was taken from modern New York City vernacular. Some insist, however, that the name Yeah Yeah Yeahs is a reference to Bikini Kill's LP split with Huggy Bear titled Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah[2].[citation needed] Yeah Yeah Yeahs have so far made two studio albums. The second, Show Your Bones, was released in 2006 and voted the second best album of the year by NME magazine.

History

Yeah Yeah Yeahs' debut release was a self-titled EP, released in 2001. They followed it with another EP, Machine, in 2002.

In 2003, the band released their first complete album, Fever to Tell, which received several strong critical reviews and sold more than 750,000 copies worldwide. The album's third single, "Maps", received significant airplay on alternative radio. The video for their 2004 single "Y Control" was directed by acclaimed director Spike Jonze, who was involved with the band's lead singer Karen O for a period.[citation needed] In October 2004, the band released their first DVD, Tell Me What Rockers to Swallow. The DVD included a concert filmed at The Fillmore in San Francisco, all of the band's music videos to date, and various interviews.

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Karen O performing at Glasslands Gallery in Brooklyn, NY May 7, 2007.

Their second album, Show Your Bones, was released on March 27/28, 2006. The album's producer, Sam "Squeak E. Clean" Spiegel – who had previously collaborated with Karen O on the song "Hello Tomorrow" for an Adidas commercial directed by Sam's brother (and Karen's then-boyfriend), Jonze[citation needed] – told MTV News that it was a concept album about Karen's cat, and would be titled Coco Beware. However, MTV was forced to retract the story, noting that Spiegel had failed to mention that he was joking.[citation needed] Karen O told online zine Drowned in Sound, "Show Your Bones is what happens when you put your finger in a light socket," crediting "9 year old antigenius wonder-kid Drake Barrett for the insight."[3] The first single from the album, "Gold Lion", was released on March 20th, 2006, reaching 18 in the Official UK Singles Chart. It has been noted by Leah Greenblatt that "Gold Lion" sounds startlingly similar to "No New Tale To Tell" from 1980s alternative favorites Love and Rockets.[4] The band toured throughout Europe and the United States during much of 2006.

A rare song the band often played live,[citation needed] though not released on any albums, "Sealings," was released on the Driver: Parallel Lines, Vol. 1 Official Soundtrack and recently featured on the Spiderman 3 Official Soundtrack.

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs' new EP, titled Is Is, was released on July 24, 2007. It includes 5 previously unreleased songs and a short film. The songs were written in 2004, during the Fever To Tell tour, and performed live often.[citation needed] Three of the five tracks were featured on the "Tell Me What Rockers to Swallow" DVD.[5] They are also going to be releasing a DVD of a performance on May 7th in New York directed by Patrick Daughters.[citation needed]

Discography

Studio albums

EPs

Singles

Year Song U.S. Hot 100 U.S. Modern Rock U.S. Pop 100 UK Singles Chart Album
2001 "Bang!" - - - - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
2001 "Art Star" - - - - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
2002 "Machine" - - - 37 Machine
2003 "Date with the Night" 16 Fever to Tell
2003 "Pin" 29 Fever to Tell
2004 "Maps" 87 9 26 Fever to Tell
2004 "Y Control" 54 Fever to Tell
2006 "Gold Lion" 88 14 68 18 Show Your Bones
2006 "Turn Into" - - - 53 Show Your Bones
2006 "Cheated Hearts" - - - 54 Show Your Bones
2006 "Sealings" - - - - Driver Parallel Lines Soundtrack
2007 "Sealings"(re-release) - - - - Spider-Man 3: The Official Soundtrack
2007 "Down Boy" - - - - Is Is EP
2007 "Rockers to Swallow" - - - - Is Is EP

DVDs

Samples

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Notable Appearances

  • The song Black Tongue was in the video game True Crime: New York City.
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs were titled the Artist of the Month on Yahoo.Launch.Com for October 2004.
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs made their television debut on the late show with David Letterman.
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs were on the cover of magazine KoreAm Journal in October 2006.
  • The song Sealings by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs was in the video game Driver: Parallel Lines and is played during gameplay.

References

  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ http://www.virginradio.co.uk/music/artists/yeah_yeah_yeahs/
  3. ^ [2]
  4. ^ [3]
  5. ^ [4]

External links


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