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. 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. The band has so far made two studio albums. The second, ''Show Your Bones'', was released in 2006 and was voted the second best album of the year by NME magazine.

Contents

History

Discography

Samples

Notable Appearances

References

External links

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. 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.

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 – 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. 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."^[2] 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.^[3]
The band toured throughout Europe and the United States during much of 2006.
A rare song the band often played live, 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, recorded and filmed at the GlassLands Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. The songs were written in 2004, during the Fever To Tell tour, and performed live often. Three of the five tracks were featured on the "Tell Me What Rockers to Swallow" DVD.^[4] They are also going to be releasing a DVD of a performance on May 7th in New York directed by Patrick Daughters.
Karen O and Nick Zinner both appear as guests on Tiny Masters of Today's album Bang Bang Boom Cake. The song was written via email and features Karen singing.

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)	-	-	-	-	''
2007	"Down Boy"	-	-	-	-	''Is Is EP''
2007	"Rockers to Swallow"	-	-	-	-	''Is Is EP''

===DVDs===

★ ''Tell Me What Rockers to Swallow'' (2004)

Samples

Notable Appearances

★ The song Black Tongue was in the video game .

★ 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 and is played during gameplay.

References

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External links

★ Official Yeah Yeah Yeahs Site

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★ Yeah Yeah Yeahs Project YYY community-driven resource, including articles and videos

★ YYY Pins, early list of links to interviews, photos, etc.

★ Yeah Yeah Yeahs videos - comprehensive compilation at DailyMotion.

★ Lollapalooza 2007 Live video from Blender Mag. (Flash)