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Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Karen O's Godliness Explained

By Zack Vitiello (CHARTattack) August 5, 2009 4:47 pm

Let us begin with a bold assertion: Karen O is the best frontwoman in contemporary rock music. Indeed, she possess a whole mess of unique quirks and characteristics that set her apart from her peers, and she held nothing back at last night's concert at Toronto's Kool Haus. Here are some of the things that you just have to love about Karen O...

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O (Photo by John Papamarko)

Osheaga 2009 Showcases La Roux, New Wavers

By Erik Leijon (CHARTattack) August 4, 2009 2:32 pm

It's a combination of the long lineups, the omnipresent enclosures, rigid schedules and overpriced wares, but nothing awakens my animalistic tendencies quite like Osheaga, Montreal's massive weekend musical bash. It's not really a "music and arts festival" because a festival would imply there's some sort of cultural celebration...

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Glastonbury 2009 Diary: Part 3

By Jonathan Dekel (CHARTattack) July 3, 2009 12:32 pm

Saturday, June 28, 2009 Pilton, England Glastonbury Festival Hospitality Campgrounds 10:30 a.m. I awake in a bath of warm sweat, again. It's even worse today than it was yesterday. I run outside my tent in my underwear only to see that two older ladies are sitting in front of me having some tea — how civilized. I want to ask them if they...

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs — It's Blitz!

By Jen White (CHARTattack) April 6, 2009 2:40 pm

Yeah Yeah Yeahs explained last fall that their third studio album wouldn't sound like anything they'd done before. Well, the New York trio weren't kidding. It's Blitz! (and its amazing cover) sees the band opting for more dance-inspired indie rock. It's kind of a shock when you hear opener and first single "Zero." It's a sleek, catchy...

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs — Show Your Bones

By Noah Love (CHARTattack) March 28, 2006 1:34 pm

Ever since the indie scene that spawned the Yeah Yeah Yeahs spurned them following the release of their self-titled EP, they've been on a mission to prove their detractors wrong. Fever To Tell was almost reluctantly well received and ended up producing two hit singles. There will be no reluctance, however, to laud Show Your Bones, a meticulously...

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WATCH: Trent Reznor & Karen O cover Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song"

By Colton Eddy (CHARTattack) December 11, 2011 2:44 pm

Following their Academy Award-winning collaborative score for The Social Network, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have again teamed up with director David Fincher for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. By now you may have heard the song as the soundtrack is officially released and it features this chaotic cover of Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song...

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I Read The News Today... For July 18, 2011

By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) July 18, 2011 4:01 pm

Perhaps you've heard about The Horrible Crowes, the new band Gaslight Anthem frontman Brian Fallon's in. They've put a new tune called "Behold The Hurricane" up on the interwebs and guess who it sounds like? Bruce Springsteen! Whodathunk? Wanna hear Killers member Ronnie Vanucci's debut solo album? He's recorded it as Big Talk, and you...

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I Read The News Today... For May 30, 2011

By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) May 30, 2011 3:46 pm

Somebody call 911! Sean Kingston was critically injured yesterday evening while jet skiing in Miami... he apparently crashed his water craft into a bridge. We want him to get better, but how do you not notice something like a bridge is right in front of you? Supertramp are playing Vancouver this Thursday! Their date got moved to accomodate the...

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I Read The News Today... For March 28, 2011

By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 28, 2011 3:25 pm

Guided By Voices, Neko Case, No Age, Kurt Vile and a bunch of other Pitchfork types got added to... the Pitchfork Music Festival. The Strokes are going to start working on yet another Strokes record that sounds like Is This It next month. —Consequence Of Sound You can add Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner to the list of people who dislike...

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I Read The News Today... For Dec. 21, 2010

By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) December 21, 2010 3:49 pm

It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's not even Superman! It's an actor in the Spider-Man musical falling 20 feet onto the stage and being taken to hospital! —CNN The soundtrack to Blue Valentine, the upcoming movie starring Ryan Gosling (Lars And The Real Girl, Half Nelson) and Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain, "Dawson's Creek") features tunes...

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs Song In Apple iPad Ad

By Kate MacRae (CHARTattack) May 19, 2010 4:02 pm

Apple have released a new ad for the iPad featuring Yeah Yeah Yeahs' "Gold Lion," from their 2006 Show Your Bones album. The iPad is not the first instance of Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeahs being used for sneaky background earworm action, as their song "Runaway" was used for a 2009 episode of Gossip Girl. It's Blitz!'s "Heads...

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs — "Skeletons"

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By CHARTattack Staff January 26, 2010 1:19 pm

Yeah Yeah Yeahs continue with their trend of spooky, macabre videos with the clip for It's Blitz!'s "Skeletons." It features the band as ghosts playing over top a deserted cemetery. Yeah Yeah Yeahs' video for "Heads Will Roll" featured a werewolf doing a "Billie Jean"-esque dance, later dismembering and decapitating...

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs Is The CHARTattack Staff Top Album For 2009

By CHARTattack Staff December 23, 2009 5:10 pm

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs' It's Blitz! is the CHARTattack staff's favourite album of the year 2009. We polled all our editors, writers and photographers for their top 10 albums of the year, the weighed them 10 points for first, nine for second, etc. Contributors who submitted top five lists had theirs weighted in twos, i.e. ten, eight, six points...

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Karen O Taking On Fat Kids

By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) September 11, 2009 11:46 am

Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer Karen O is taking on fat people. O's "All Is Love," which will be featured in the upcoming Spike Jonze film adaptation of Maurice Sendak's children's book Where The Wild Things Are, is being used in an anti-obesity public service announcement. The clip features footage from the film, which opens Oct. 16,...

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