Yeah Yeah Yeahs Blitz Early

Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Interscope Records are moving up the release date of It's Blitz! after the album leaked online last week. We suspect Geronimo the raccoon was behind it.

The album was originally slated to come out on April 14, but a downloadable version will now be available on March 10 and CDs will arrive in stores three weeks later.

"The cat's out of the bag after IT'S BLITZ! escaped from our clutches into the big bad world last week," the group wrote on their website on Tuesday. "Why should some have and some have-not?

"YYYs have been brimming with nervous excitement in anticipation of releasing this record to the world! Can't help but ask ourselves, 'What would the PHILOSOPHER do in times such as these?'"

Album opener and first single "Zero" is already available to purchase and can be heard on Yeah Yeah Yeahs' MySpace page.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs have a variety of club, stadium and festival appearances lined up in the U.S., Europe and Israel. Here are their dates:

April 19 Indio, CA @ Empire Polo Fields (Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival)
April 22 Manchester, England @ O2 Academy
April 25-26 London, England @ O2 Shepherds Bush Empire
April 29 Amsterdam, The Netherlands @ Paradiso
April 30 Paris, France @ Le Bataclan
May 2 Hasselt, Belgium @ Polsslag Festival
May 3 Cologne, Germany @ Live Music Hall
May 4 Milan, Italy @ Magazzini Generali
May 6 Berlin, Germany @ Columbiahalle
May 8 Stockholm, Sweden @ Debaser Medis
May 10 Tel Aviv, Israel @ Ramat Gan Stadium w/Depeche Mode
May 23 George, WA @ The Gorge Amphitheatre (Sasquatch! Music Festival)
June 12 Manchester, TN @ Great Stage Park (Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival)
July 10 Balado, Scotland @ T In The Park
July 11 Dublin, Ireland @ Punchestown Racecourse (Oxegen Festival)

Here are the songs on It's Blitz!:

"Zero"
"Heads Will Roll"
"Soft Shock"
"Skeletons"
"Dull Life"
"Shame And Fortune"
"Runaway"
"Dragon Queen"
"Hysteric"
"Little Shadow"