Yeah Yeah Yeahs are a Grammy Award nominated New York City-based rock band.
The band members include lead singer Karen O, drummer Brian Chase, and guitarist
Nick Zinner. Their music is a mix of retro styles with heavy rock/punk guitars,
synthetic sounds with rhythmic, melodic and bluesy vocals. They formed in 2000
as a trio, and were joined by second guitarist Imaad Wasif in 2006 for touring
purposes.
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." 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 several
listeners that "Gold Lion" sounds startingly similar to "No New Tale To Tell"
from 1980s alternative favorites Love and Rockets. The band toured throughout
Europe and the United States during much of 2006.
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