Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Biography
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.
Selected Discography
It's Blitz!
2009
Is Is
2007
Gold Lion / Let Me Know
2006
Show Your Bones (Rough Sequence)
2006
Fever To Tell (Explicit)
2003
Machine
2002
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
2001
jealouuusssy y y y y y y y of these people posting before me!! damn this cold wastland of a state!!
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i saw this chica perform at ACL festival in Austin Texas she was bad a**
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Spiffy band, Gold Lion is a f**king awesome song.
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not a fan, they're too much of a pop band, I do like maps though
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I love Maps and Gold lion by them...beaut i f u l voice and incredibly,s l i m woman with such a bean pole figure that she actually makes me find attraction in a non-curvy figure...sex y ! I ' l l stray from the metal for them!!!!
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no...i don't think she sounds anything like chrissie hynde...sorr y .
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Love them! She looks like and sounds like Chrissie Hynde. They sound like the Pretenders meets Missing Persons.
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does anyone else think she sounds a LOT like Crissy Hind (the Pretenders) singer? Getting into Y.Y.Y.'s more and more.
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I really like the Yeahs, they remind me of being somewere that only belongs to people like me. "People who just let inersia happen, with out trying to control it."
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i saw this band at coachella a few years ago, i didn't really know them except what i heard on the radio, but they blew me away it was one of the best shows i have seen in my life.
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this is what you guys wrote''pixie s - m i s s i n g persons-chri s s i e hynde-siouxs i e sue,brassy'' w h y compare ? she's just a chick who loves the ninties-kare n f u c k i n g o . . .
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the lead singer sounds like joe biden's mistress-the one you fuckheads don't know about.
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they were not a one hit wonder-some of gold lion is very beautiful.
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they were fun on snl! the awkward band and the leggy 70's sex pot lead...love them! one of my favorite bands....
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haha, since the '90s. *fail*
i really don't want to like this kind of "energy-orgy " music, but i can't help it. it's so simple but so strong, i'd say the style is like a grown-up white stripes with a decent singer. frankly, they're nothing like a phenomenon, but fun. |
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Just saw these guys on Saturday Night Live and they were captivating - all fun to watch. They way she moves, dresses and flirts with the audience was so interesting and hot ! The guitarist has a quirky style - very cool !
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