Reminding everyone who doesn’t live in New York how cool it would be if you could live in New York, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs played a surprise tenth anniversary show last night in NYC, performing in a tiny art space just off of the East River in Brooklyn, according to NME:
Yeah Yeah Yeahs return with another music video for “Skeletons” which is directed by the lovely Karen O‘s boyfriend, Barney Clay. The track is one of the down-tempo songs on their latest album, It’s Blitz!, and it’s fair to say it’s probably the dreamiest as well.
The video is a perfect match for the ethereal tone, although the term “ethereal” is a bit of an understatement. Angels, clouds, and the supernatural all come together for black and white visuals that intrigue with the uncertainty between safety and fear. Whatever it all is, it’s a gorgeous watch. We’ve got the video plus an the “making of” footage for you below!
The Oscars just released a statement revealing which songs are nominated for the golden statue. As usual, the list is very lengthy in correlation to the many films released this year. What we find pleasing about this year’s list is the amount of indie artists who are nominated.
We all knew Karen O got her Grammy nod for her work on Where the Wild Things Are when Miley Cyrus got booted, but the Yeah Yeah Yeahs‘ front lady has also been nominated for an Oscar. Other notable mentions include Jack White‘s “Fly Farm Blues” from It Might Get Loud, Lykke Li‘s “Possibility” from New Moon, and Jarvis Cocker‘s “Petey’s Song” from Fantastic Mr. Fox. Check the entire list out below!
Miley Cyrus may be on top of the world right now but she can’t always have everything. When the Grammy nominations were revealed, Cyrus received a nod for her song “The Climb” which was released as a single for the Hannah Montana film. However, it was recently revoked when the panel discovered the song was not originally written for the film.
So who’s next in line for the Grammy nomination? Yeah Yeah Yeahs‘ Karen O for her work on Where The Wild Things Are soundtrack, and we can’t help but gloat a little bit. It’s about time the indie world has another prevalent presence at the Grammys. The winning speech from The Swell Season‘s Marketa Irgolva at the Oscars two years ago warmed out little indie hearts, and we’re hoping Karen O and The Kids will be able to do the same for the Grammys.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs have been selected for the ATP Festival lineup which is great news. However, what’s even more fantastic than that is the fact that they will be playing fan favorite album, Fever To Tell, in its entirety!
That’s right. They’re reminding us why we loved them in the first place, and it’s probably fun to play a whole album for a show anyway. Everyone’s doing it. Pixies did it last night in LA, and Bruce Springsteen’s been doing it as well among many others. Pitchfork Festival always has a band play an entire album on the first day. It’s what the fans want!
The highly anticipated movie, Where The Wild Things Are, doesn’t come out until October 16th, but we DO get to hear the soundtrack a little bit earlier than the film’s release. We also just got word that the first single from the compilation is Karen O‘s “All Is Love.” (Take a look at the artwork above!) The track is available starting August 25th. That’s soon!
Today is an especially good day for fans of Karen O, Dave Eggers, and Spike Jonze. Read all about it after the jump!
Yeah Yeah Yeahs took the Budweiser stage at Lollapalooza 8:30pm. Bringing in Karen O. and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs as a last minute replacement for the Beastie Boys proved to be a great choice as fans split almost exactly in half for the night’s two headliners. Karen O. marched out onstage in a colorful headdress giving the crowd a gruff “what’s up Chicago!” before launching into “Runaway”. The dance party didn’t really start until “Heads Will Roll” which got nearly the entire crowd jumping by the first “Off off off with your head; dance dance dance ‘til you’re dead.”
Beastie Boys fans and kind-hearted people – you may relax now. Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys is safe at home resting after undergoing a surgery for his cancerous tumor.
Yauch sent his fans a message via e-mail saying that the surgery was over a week and half ago and in actuality, he only spent one night in the hospital. At home, he to go “have home cooked food and hang out with the family.” It’ll be just a few weeks when he’ll start radiation treatment.
The MTV Video Music Awards released their nominees for Best Breakthrough Video earlier this week. Just like we were impressed with MTV’s Top Albums of 2009 list, we are amazed at how much depth this nominee list has.
The Breakthrough Video category have been absent from the awards show on and off for the past few years, but we’re excited to see it’s back. We’re especially elated that many of the video nominees feature a handful of indie artists! Artist videos include Bat for Lashes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Matt and Kim, Death Cab for Cutie and more. Now we know that the video filmmakers/directors get to take this award home, but we can’t help but think it’s rad that they’ve worked with some of our favorite artists.
Take a look after the jump and watch all the videos that made the list!
