00-yeah_yeah_yeahs-heads_will_roll-cds-2009.nfo
artist : Yeah Yeah Yeahs
title : Heads Will Roll
label : Geffen
cat# :
genre : Rock
street date : 2009-06-29
tracks : 2
bitrate : 190 kbps avg. 44.1/Joint Stereo
size : 11.29 mb
source : CDS
type : Retail
url : http://www.yeahyeahyeahs.com
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Discovered in the wake of the Strokes' popularity and the subsequent garage
rock revival, New York's art punk trio the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are comprised of
singer Karen O, guitarist Nicolas Zinner, and drummer Brian Chase. O met
Chase at Ohio's Oberlin College and met Zinner through friends after she
transferred to NYU. Zinner and O formed the band in 2000; originally, they
were a folky duo called Unitard, but they went electric after being inspired
by Ohio's legendary avant punk scene. After the drummer they recruited
initially bowed out, Chase joined the lineup.
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs wrote a slew of songs at their first rehearsal and soon
wound up supporting the Strokes and the White Stripes, earning a significant
buzz for their arty yet sexy take on garage punk. In late 2001, the Yeah Yeah
Yeahs released their self-titled debut EP, which they recorded with Boss
Hog's Jerry Teel, on their own Shifty label. Early the next year the band
stepped into the international spotlight, appearing at South by Southwest,
touring the U.S. with Girls Against Boys and Europe with Jon Spencer Blues
Explosion, and headlining their own U.K. tour. Wichita Recordings
distributed the group's EP in the U.K. and Touch and Go reissued it in
the States.
In between tours, the group spent 2002 putting the finishing touches on its
full-length debut and playing American dates with Sleater-Kinney, Liars,
and Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. Late that year, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
released the Machine EP to tide fans over before their first full-length.
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs moved to Interscope for their debut album, 2003's Fever
to Tell. Boasting a cleaner sound and more eclectic songwriting than their
EPs, the album continued their critical acclaim and also won them a fair
amount of commercial success: the gorgeous ballad "Maps" became a hit in
2004 and pushed Fever to Tell to gold status that year. Karen O also moved
to Los Angeles in 2004, making the Yeah Yeah Yeahs a bicoastal band.
The group took some time to pursue individual projects in 2005. O loaned her
vocals to "Hello Tomorrow," a collaboration with producer Squeak E. Clean
that provided the soundtrack to a Nike shoe commercial directed by Spike
Jonze, while Zinner recorded with the side project Head Wound City and also
had a book of photographs, I Hope You Are All Happy Now, published. The
Yeah Yeah Yeahs reconvened in the studio that year to record their second
album with Clean as producer; jokingly, Clean said that the album was about
O's cat and would be called Coco Beware, but the album's real title, Show
Your Bones, was revealed soon after. Released in spring 2006, the album
was the band's most mature, polished work yet, and reached number 11 on
the album charts. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs spent the rest of the year touring
in support of the album, and returned in summer 2007 with the Is Is EP, a
collection of newly recorded versions of songs written in between the
band's two albums. It's Blitz!, which took the band's sound in a more
streamlined, electronic direction, arrived in spring 2009.
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