Yeah Yeah Yeahs go full technicolor dream in the music video for their latest single, “Blacktop,” which appears on their recently released studio album Cool it Down. With Karen O at its center, the David Black-directed video toys with shadows and silhouettes to pair a visual narrative with the emotionally …
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Just Like Heaven is ready to bring fan-favorite indie rock and electro-dance artists to L.A. for their third annual festival next May. On Tuesday, the festival announced that Yeah Yeah Yeahs will headline and MGMT will perform Oracular Spectacular in its entirety during the one-day event on May 13. Among …
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Dave Grohl and Greg Kurstin marked the sixth night of Hanukkah — and Night Six of their 2022 Hanukkah Sessions — by bringing out Karen O to perform “Heads Will Roll” by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, two-thirds of whom are Jewish (but not the singer herself). “Leave it to us …
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Saturday Night Live revealed that Lizzo will now serve as musical guest on the Austin Butler-hosted episode next week, with the rapper filling in for the previously announced Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Soon after SNL announced the switch-up, the YYYs issued a statement on social media explaining that all of the …
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Brandi Carlile, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and SZA help Saturday Night Live close out 2022 as the musical guests for the last three shows of the year. SZA (as previously announced) will return to SNL for her second musical performance on Dec. 3 with first-time host Keke Palmer. Carlile will …
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The best scene in Meet Me In the Bathroom, the excellent new documentary on the rock & roll scene that slouched into New York in the beginning of the 21st century: a parking lot under the Williamsburg Bridge, Brooklyn, Labor Day weekend, 2002. An afternoon punk show, maybe semi-quasi-not-illegal. The …
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On Monday, to celebrate the holiday, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs released the music video for their eclectic song “Wolf.” The visual follows Severance actress Britt Lower getting lost in the woods and turning completely feral, before discovering Karen O. at a middle-of-nowhere bar. The cinematic visual, directed by Allie Avital, …
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A bout a year ago, Karen O was scrolling through Instagram when she came across a photo of Japanese Breakfast frontwoman Michelle Zauner that left her a little concerned. It was from a stop on Zauner’s relentless tour over the past couple of years, which has included more than 100 …
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“Sounding good and having a good time.” On Thursday, Utopia released the trailer for Meet Me in the Bathroom, an upcoming Showtime documentary inspired by Lizzy Goodman’s book of the same name, about the wild alt-rock music scene that blew up in New York City in the early 2000s. “People …
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Two decades ago, the trio of Karen O, Nick Zinner, and Brian Chase were leaders of New York’s downtown post-punk revival scene, taking on the malaise that hung over the early aughts with slashing riffs and yelp-along lyrics. On Cool It Down, their fifth album and first since 2013’s gritty …
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