Karen O & M.I.A., 2007 by Nick Zinner

Karen O plays those two shows at Union Pool in Brooklyn tonight. Listen to five songs @ MySpace.

2 SHOWS, ONE EVENING.

Native Korean Rock and the Fishnets COME DROWN WITH US

Native Korean Rock is a side project of Karen O?s comprised of a body of love songs written over the last two years, to be performed with a motley crew of NYC natives. Expect high drama, high stakes in two intimate performances. Does Native Korean Rock have anything to do with Yeah Yeah Yeahs? NO Are these the leaked demos of years ago? NO

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Jack White & Jack Lawrence @ Terminal 5, Saturday night (Play Vicious)

Brendan Benson, Nick Zinner, Jack Lawrence & White - also Saturday (roxxan23)

The Raconteurs played Terminal 5 in NYC on Friday and Saturday AND Sunday.

Are people actually saying that Saturday night show was just OK??? It was absolutely ripping and jack white is one of the best guitarists alive. The guy was going crazy on stage. He was more into the show than anyone else in the place. The venue sucked, but who cares, no lines for beer. [Anonymous]

Continue reading "The Raconteurs' 3-night run @ Terminal 5 is over (pics)"

Tiny Masters of Today & Karen O video shoot (photo by Leia Jospe)

Speaking of Tiny Masters of Today shows...

June 5: Lightspeed Champion and Tiny Masters of Today Doing One for the Kids (and the unemployed)!

What is Chancellor's day? It is an inexplicable school holiday on June 5 that only kids in New York get. To celebrate this year, Tiny Masters of Today are throwing a special afternoon party at Union Hall in Brooklyn.

Joining us for this first annual throwdown will be our friends from
England: Lightspeed Champion!!! Holy Cow! It is going to be awesome, it starts at 4 and ends at 6 so don't be late! Hey, there might even be special guests, you never know!

And at that website you can listen to six of the Tom Waits songs including "Fannin Street" featuring vocals by David Bowie.

Scarlett Johansson's inspired Atco Records debut album ANYWHERE I LAY MY HEAD features her distinctive interpretations of ten songs by Tom Waits plus one original selection, "Song For Jo." Johansson co-wrote the track with TV On The Radio's David Andrew Sitek, who produced the album and lends his multi-instrumental talents throughout as well. She is also joined by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner, Sean Antanaitis from Celebration and others.

Friday April 11th @ LOCATION TO BE EMAILED TO TICKET HOLDERS

:: ATLAS SOUND + secret longtime buds band
:::: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome WOLF
:::::: more guests tba

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we're selling advance tickets to next Friday's ATLAS SOUND + secret
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----> tickets go on sale @ 5PM SAT, 3/5 @ CINDERS GALLERY
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I ended up seeing Atlas Sound twice at SXSW - first at the Pitchfork Party and then again the next day at Mess With Texas. Both were pretty good. Ryan Muir saw them at Mess With Texas too. More of his photos below....

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Les Savy Fav @ McCarren Pool, July 2006 (Jonny Leather)

Slip n Slide @ McCarren Pool, August 2007 (Brunocerous)

Deerhoof @ McCarren Pool, August 2006 (Paul Bachmann)

As Gothamist and Curbed have pointed out, McCarren Park Pool will be back for at least one more summer of concerts in 2008. After that? Other stuff.

Some videos from past pool shows below...

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DOWNLOAD: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps (Peel Sessions) (MP3)

Everywhere like such as....

Continue reading "VIDEO: MAPS -- U.S. Americans are unable to do so"

words & photos by Bao Nguyen

Girl Talk

So this was a very last minute idea, meaning I left New York for Baltimore at 12 PM on Saturday when gates had already opened at 10 AM. Not knowing at the time whether I had a pass waiting for me at the festival, I made the 4 hour drive, hindered by the beach bound crowd on the NJ Turnpike, armed with a Polaroid, 4 hours of sleep, and a sense of regret for missing the previous night's CSS show. I arrived at Pimilico Field at exactly 4 PM and after nearly being run over by Richard Branson on a golf cart, I made it just in time to catch the start of Peter Bjorn and John's set. I think their music plays better in a small club than a large festival type atmosphere especially when the entire crowd seems to be waiting for only one particular song that everyone can whistle to. Following Peter Bjorn and John was an high energy set from LCD Soundsystem that included a very unusual mosh pit where three people were doing their best Thom Yorke seizure dance....

Continue reading "The 2007 Virgin Festival in Baltimore - review & pics"

Regina Spektor

Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O

more pictures below....

Continue reading "Photos from Lollapalooza 2007 - Day 2"

DOWNLOAD: Throw Me The Statue - Lolita (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: The Cave Singers - Seeds of Night (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Debbie Harry - Two Times Blue (MP3)

* Dirty Projectors & others play a Showpaper benefit
* Antibalas plays on Governors Island
* Andrew W.K. plays Highline Ballroom
* Kassav' / Bonga @ Prospect Park Bandshell
* Spanish Harlem Orchestra @ Summerstage
* The Foundry Field Recordings are @ Pianos
* The Mae Shi visit Union Pool
* Blonde Redhead & I'm From Barcelona visit McCarren Pool
* Brand Nubian, Cham, MIMS, Joell Ortiz, Clipse & Large Professor
* Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance
* Lollapalooza & The Virgin Festival
* The Cave Singers going on tour w/ Black Mountain
* Throw Me The Statue's "Lolita" is a popular song
* Tiny Masters of Today collaborating w/ Yeah Yeah Yeahs
* And yes, that is a new Debbie Harry song up there...
* Right above the picture of Debbie and Karen O

What else?

Go to MySpace now to listen to a song Karen O & Nick Zinner recorded with the recently-signed-and-very-young Tiny Masters of Today. See Tiny Masters of Today when they open for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs at Webster Hall on August 7th.

In related news, Yeah Yeah Yeahs' new EP Is Is is out now, and very much worth repeated listens. 'Down Boy' is streaming at their MySpace, and the title track can be heard in their new video (or just stream the whole thing this week at AOL). They've also added a few new West Coast tour dates....

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Tickets go on sale today for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs show at Webster Hall. They're $37.50 a pop.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs are playing Webster Hall in NYC on August 7th - no ticket info yet.

Their new video - the one recorded at Glasslands in Brooklyn - is out too. That video, and all tour dates, below...

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs @ Glasslands Gallery, Brooklyn, NY - May 7, 2007 (CRED)

More pictures like the above, HERE, and Brooklyn Record has a review.

Previously
* two small free YEAH YEAH YEAHS shows

This is a picture of Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs embracing Bradford Cox of Deerhunter at the Silent Barn show....

This is a cool show announcement...

FREE Yeah Yeah Yeah's LIVE PERFORMANCE! (All Ages)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs Sell Their Souls in Return for Infinite Life in Permanent Night Performance---TWO TIMES!

We will be gathering the flesh of the young and old this Monday Evening to rejoice in an unholy manner to songs from the runt of the litter: our brand new EP. A few notes, there is only room for roughly 250 of you for either performance so dare to be there or dare to be square. The performances are FREE but everything has it's price, so expect to be RECORDED by many purveyors of filth. Oh yes and FEMMES you will be especially lusted over this evening so come in packs, gangs, broods...we need you. Please see below for details! We hope you enjoy being used as much as we do! Gonna get Dark. Literally. XX YYY

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Stereogum pretty much has this one covered.

DOWNLOAD: YYYs & Etienne De Cracy - Fast Hearts (eve massacre mix) (MP3)

A Rolling Stone magazine party...

KAREN O @ BOWERY BALLROOM, NYC | OCT 19, 2006 (CRED)

"Last night the Yeah Yeah Yeahs performed to a mostly full crowd of industry honchos (and their dates) at New York City’s Bowery Ballroom." [Rolling Stone]

"Rollingstone was celebrating something -an anniversary of a few hundred years- and we pumped our fists in approval as Karen O delighted and wooed." [Yeti Don't Dance]

"Celebration also put on a lively performance and David Sitek joined them onstage for the last few songs." [Productshop]

FULL SETLIST: Our Time / Honeybear / Pin / Phenomena / Gold Lion / Wayout / Art Star / Cheated Hearts / Miles Away / Warrior / Maps / Turn Into / Date / Y Control (by audience request) and Date with the Night [The Modern Age]

An Interview magazine party...

ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER @ THE ANNEX, NYC | OCT 25, 2006 (CRED)

A Paste magazine party...

BECK @ THE KNITTING FACTORY, NYC | OCT 26, 2006 (CRED)

"Beck showed up with his skinny well-coiffed band of punky deviants last night at the Knitting Factory to play an hour-long private set in front of 200 celebrating his Paste magazine cover. Roots drummer ?uestlove served as the between-sets DJ." [fishbowlNY]

"The party turned into a gathering of musicians by the end of the evening, with James Iha (Smashing Pumpkins), Adam Schlessinger (Fountains of Wayne), Ben Kweller, the Benevento Russo Duo, Willie Nile, Matt Maye & El Torpedo and Matisyahu all in attendence." [Paste]

An AOL party...

THE WALKMEN @ CANAL ROOM, NYC | OCT 26, 2006 (CRED)

"We launched our weekly show yesterday. It's called the DL and a proper celebration was in order. So, we rang up the Walkmen and our boy $mall ¢hange to party with us." [Spinner / AOL Indie blog]

An off-stage pic of Beck and more below....

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Sonic Youth and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs co-headlined McCarren Park Pool in Brooklyn two nights in a row this weekend (Friday and Saturday - Aug 11-12, 2006). I was at the Saturday show. Both bands sounded great, but the weather was even better. Not only didn't I bring a camera, I stood & sat near the back for the whole show. The four pics in this post are all stolen from people's Flickr who I'll credit in just a few minutes (I accidentally deleted where I got them from, but I wanted to get this post up - SORRY).

Yeah Yeah Yeahs | FRIDAY, AUG 11, 2006 (MORE)


Yeah Yeah Yeahs | SATURDAY, AUG 12, 2006 (MORE)


SONIC YOUTH (MORE)


SONIC YOUTH (MORE)

Previously
Sonic Youth / Yeah Yeah Yeahs | McCarren Set Times, Boston last night, & Tour Dates
Yeah Yeah Yeahs @ Bowery Ballroom, NYC | pics
Yeah Yeah Yeahs @ Maxwell's, NJ | pics
I didn't see Sonic Youth @ CBGB | NPR will stream DC
Sonic Youth @ Bonnaroo 2006 | pics & Pavement rumor

YYY & TVOTR TOGETHER IN BOSTON | AUG 10, 2006 (CRED)

THIS WEEKEND IN BROOKLYN
Friday: 7pm - Sonic Youth, 8:45pm - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Saturday: 7pm - Yeah Yeah Yeahs, 8:45 - Sonic Youth

LAST NIGHT IN BOSTON
"The sun had started to set, the heat of the day has lost its grip on the city, and thousands – 10, 12, 15 thousand — were filing peacefully into City Hall Plaza long before the headlining Yeah Yeah Yeahs were due to take the stage. All the makings of a perfect rock and roll evening were in place as Brooklyn’s TV on the Radio filled downtown with an eclectic mix of organic post-punk guitars and almost trance-y rhythms devoid of the electronic embellishments that are such of big part of the alterna-indie band’s studio sound." [The Phoenix]

All YYY & Sonic Youth tour dates below...

Continue reading "Sonic Youth / Yeah Yeah Yeahs | McCarren Set Times, Boston last night, & Tour Dates"

As you probably figured out already, Joanna & Neko weren't the only McCarren Park Pool shows announced last night. Sonic Youth, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Blood on the Wall (8/11) and Awesome Color (8/12) share a bill on August 11 & 12, 2006. Tickets go on sale Saturday at noon or via the Sonic Youth presale (thx steve) right now.

Ticekts also go on sale Saturday for the Iron & Wine show.

UPDATED MCCARREN PARK POOL SCHEDULE
7/29 - Bloc Party, Secret Machines, Mew
7/30 - Of Montreal (free)
8/11 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sonic Youth, Blood on the Wall
8/12 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sonic Youth, Awesome Color
8/13 - Deerhoof (free)
8/17 - Iron & Wine
8/24 - Neko Case, Joanna Newsom, Martha Wainwright

YEAH YEAH YEAHS @ COACHELLA 2006

"Um...I like Bowery Ballroom...It's still my favorite place to play. The Hammerstein and Roseland are a little bit...I dunno. I think we're still trying to get comfortable playing at that size. Not even the size of the stage or the size of the place, it's just that the biggest problem that I have is the bigger the place that you play, the further away the crowd is with all the barricades and the sort of ridiculous security measures that have to be in place. That’s definitely kind of hard for me. I like for people to be able to jump on stage." [Yeah Yeah Yeah Nick Zinner to Gothamist]

Josh Hartnett, The Modern Age, Music Snobbery, The Blackberrie, and the NY Times were at Roseland.

Previously
vegan Nick Zinner's favorite vegan restaurants

I was just told that tickets for tonight's Yeah Yeah Yeahs / Black Lips show at Roseland will be available at the door. Tickets for Wednesday night's show are back on sale on Ticketmaster.

Coolfer talks about how Spitzer's radio payola investigation is currently having a negative effect on new artists. Instead of encouraging DJs to play what they want (as opposed to what they were paid to play), the payola scandal has DJs too nervous to play bands like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. They're afraid it will LOOK like they're being paid off.

Previously
100s Of Radio Stations Marked In Payola Probe
Yeah Yeah Yeahs covering Bjork
Yeah Yeah Yeahs #1 seller in Williamsburg
vegan Nick Zinner's favorite vegan restaurants