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New York, a city responsible for bands such as The Velvet Underground, Blondie and Ramones, was a cultural wasteland by the late 90s and the wider music scene was pumping out shlock like Limp Bizkit and Hoobastank.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music FOMO is such a strong human emotion that it defies logic, especially when looking at photos or video from Studio 54 or a Beatles concert or Truman Capote’s Black-and-White Ball… or, as “Indie/Seen,” veteran photographer Piper Ferguson’s new photo book demonstrates, the indie-rock scene of the early ‘00s. LCD Soundsystem, Coachella 2016 (Photo: Piper Ferguson) It’s a time capsule of the era dominated by the Strokes, the Killers, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the White Stripes, Interpol, LCD Soundsystem, the Rapture and many now-obscure acts from that scene, and even though the photos were taken 20-odd years ago, the artists are presented so vividly that it’s hard not to wish you were there.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs have announced a trio of concerts in North America later this year.The New York band will kick off their run at the MGM Music Hall in Boston on November 6, The Met in Philadelphia on November 8 and History in Toronto on November 11.Tickets, which you can purchase here, go on sale this Friday (September 15) at 10am EST (3pm BST) and a presale will be held tomorrow at the same time.The concerts follow their recent show with The Strokes at All Points East in London last month.A post shared by YEAH YEAH YEAHS (@yeahyeahyeahs)Earlier this year, the band commemorated the 20th anniversary of their debut album ‘Fever To Tell’ with the release of a half-hour documentary.There Is No Modern Romance was shot on the band’s 2002 tour by their frequent collaborator Patrick Daughters.The documentary isn’t the only major filmic project Yeah Yeah Yeahs have been associated with recently. They were also a part of Meet Me At The Bathroom, a film adaptation of the oral history by Lizzy Goodman’s acclaimed oral history of the early 2000s New York City music scene.

Beyoncé paid tribute to her musical idol Tina Turner during a concert in Paris this weekend.The singer performed at the Stade de France on Friday (May 26) as part of her ‘Renaissance’ tour, where she took a moment to remember Turner, who died on Wednesday (May 24) aged 83 following a long illness.“I just want to take a second and honour Tina Turner,” Beyoncé told the crowd. “If you’re a fan of mine, you’re a fan of Tina Turner. I wouldn’t be on this stage without Tina Turner, so I want you guys to just scream, so she can feel your love.

Tina Turner by sharing the last words the pop icon said to her.Turner died yesterday at the age of 83 following a long illness, her spokesperson said.“It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Tina Turner. With her music and her boundless passion for life, she enchanted millions of fans around the world and inspired the stars of tomorrow,” a statement on her social media pages read.“Today we say goodbye to a dear friend who leaves us all her greatest work: her music.

Coldplay paid tribute to the late Tina Turner yesterday (May 24) with a live performance of her song ‘Proud Mary’ – watch footage below.The iconic American singer and ‘Queen of Rock’n’Roll’ died yesterday aged 83 following a long illness, her spokesperson said.“It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Tina Turner. With her music and her boundless passion for life, she enchanted millions of fans around the world and inspired the stars of tomorrow,” a post to the star’s social media read.“Today we say goodbye to a dear friend who leaves us all her greatest work: her music.

Tina Turner‘s final performance has re-emerged following news of the music icon’s death aged 83.The ‘Queen of Rock’n Roll’ died at her home near Zurich, Switzerland following a long illness, her spokesperson shared today (May 24).“Tina Turner, the ‘Queen of Rock ’n’ Roll’ has died peacefully today at the age of 83 after a long illness in her home in Kusnacht near Zurich, Switzerland,” the singer’s representative said in a statement.“With her, the world loses a music legend and a role model.”Elton John, Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood, Debbie Harry and Karen O are among musicians who have paid tribute to the legendary singer.Fans are now revisiting the singer’s final show of her farewell tour, which wrapped up May 5, 2009, at the Sheffield Arena.She performed a number of hits like ‘The Best’, ‘What’s Love Got to Do With It’ and ‘River Deep, Mountain High’.You can watch highlight footage from the show and revisit the setlist below.‘Tina! 50th Anniversary’ tour setlist:1. ‘Steamy Windows’ 2. ‘Typical Male’3. ‘River Deep, Mountain High’ 4. ‘What You Get Is What You See’5. ‘Better Be Good to Me’6. ‘Won’t Get Fooled Again’7. ‘The Acid Queen’8. ‘What’s Love Got to Do With It’9. ‘Private Dancer’10. ‘We Don’t Need Another Hero’11. ‘Help!’12. ‘Undercover Agent for the Blues’13. ‘Let’s Stay Together’14. ‘I Can’t Stand the Rain’15. ‘Jumpin’ Jack Flash’16. ‘It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll (but I Like It)’17. ‘GoldenEye’18. ‘Addicted to Love’19. ‘The Best’20. ‘Proud Mary’21. ‘Nutbush City Limits’22. ‘Be Tender with Me Baby’“We have lost one of the world’s most exciting and electric performers,” John wrote in an Instagram post.

Meet Me In The Bathroom. Watch it exclusively on NME above.Finally hitting UK cinemas on March 10, Meet Me In The Bathroom is an immersive journey through the game-changing New York music scene of the early ’00s, following bands like The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interpol and LCD Soundsystem.Set against the backdrop of 9/11, the film tells the story of how a new generation of artists kick-started a musical rebirth for New York City that reverberated around the world – and is based upon rock journalist Lizzy Goodman’s celebrated 600-page oral history of the scene from 2017.The film version of the book, directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace – who made LCD Soundsystem‘s Shut Up And Play The Hits documentary and concert movie – features interviews, live footage and never before seen archive footage from those who spearheaded the scene.“What’s more important? A good sound or a good time?” Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs asks bandmate Nick Zinner in the clip.

‘Meet Me In The Bathroom’, the documentary based on Lizzy Goodman’s book of the same name. Watch the preview of the film below.‘Meet Me In The Bathroom’, Goodman’s 600-page oral history detailing the 00’s New York music scene was released back in 2017.

Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor Two decades ago, as the turn-of-the-century NYC indie-rock scene burst out of its East Village and Williamsburg incubators, few probably expected that the Yeah Yeah Yeahs would end up having the most wide-ranging career of the bunch. After all, a trio consisting of a wiz-kid guitarist, powerhouse drummer and a fireball lead singer might have made for explosive shows and a scrappy, deceptively diverse debut EP, but with no shade intended to the Strokes, Interpol, LCD Soundsystem, TV on the Radio and all the others, the multiple musical directions the band would go did not seem to be in the cards. The Yeahs had the first hit single of the pack (2003’s “Maps”) and varied their approach with each successive album, peaking with 2009’s unexpectedly electronic-heavy “It’s Blitz.” That album represented the end of that particular thread: The group released one more, rockier album “Mosquito” in 2013 (which, significantly, fulfilled their major-label contract) and then basically went on hiatus. In the years since, singer Karen O released a stellar collaboration with Danger Mouse, “Lux Prima” and co-composed the score for the animated film “Where Is Anne Frank?,” guitarist Nick Zinner also scored films and worked with Phoebe Bridgers and Songhoy Blues, and drummer Brian Chase started his own label. Such hiatuses are often permanent, but the group reunited for a tour in 2017, and five years and a pandemic later, there’s finally a reunion album — and it continues the group’s evolution with a powerful, more seasoned take on their earlier sounds.

Karen O has said that Jimmy Iovine hoped she’d become the next Gwen Stefani after Yeah Yeah Yeahs signed to Interscope Records.The New York trio released their first four studio albums through the major label – which was co-founded by Iovine in 1990 – beginning with their classic 2003 debut, ‘Fever To Tell’.Earlier this year, it was confirmed that YYYs had signed a new deal with Secretly Canadian. The band will release the highly-anticipated ‘Cool It Down’ – their first record in nine years – tomorrow (September 30).In a recent interview with Vulture, frontwoman Karen O talked about how “the music industry couldn’t be more different now” compared to the early-to-mid-’00s. “It’s a matter of survival for a lot of labels, and rock is not really a priority for them anymore,” she said.“It actually felt like a fluke for our little crew of colleagues back in 2003 – it was such a flash in the pan as far as labels actually championing that and feeling like, ‘Wow, this could be the next Nirvana or something’.”The conversation then turned to O’s past concern about “Gwenomics”, a term she’s said to have used in relation to the No Doubt singer’s pivot into a solo pop career with ‘Love.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs played a small show in Chicago earlier this week, where the trio debuted a new song from soon-to-be-released fifth album ‘Cool It Down’.The show was announced earlier this month and took place at the Metro in Chicago on Monday night (September 19). The band played unreleased song ‘Lovebomb’ – a slow-burner built around shimmery, atmospheric synths – and four other cuts from the band’s first album in nearly a decade, which is set to arrive next week.Other ‘Cool It Down’ tracks on the setlist included the album’s lead single – the Perfume Genius-assisted ‘Spitting Off The Edge of The World’ – and last month’s ‘Burning’, along with the unreleased ‘Fleez’ and ‘Blacktop’, both of which the band have been previewing on tour in recent months.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O has spoken about performing live ahead of the band’s fifth album, ‘Cool It Down’.In an interview withThe New York Times, O discussed her larger-than-life stage presence and how it has influenced up-and-coming artists.“Disarming is another speciality of what I try to do with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs,” she said of her role as a frontwoman. “I’m being absolutely ridiculous, quite overtly sexual, totally heart-on-my-sleeve.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs instantly justfied their comeback in June with the single "Spitting Off The Edge of the World," a firework medley of a song with a Perfume Genius feature as well as the bone-deep feeling of catharsis that the New York art-punk group does so well. With the September 16 release of their upcoming album Cool It Down fast approaching, Yeah Yeah Yeahs have shared another new track called "Burning." Never a band to avoid the dancefloor genres, Yeah Yeah Yeahs bring a thunderstorm into the disco for "Burning." Speaking with Apple Music, Karen O discussed the influences: "It just reminded me of kind of a sixties or seventies jam.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs have released a new single, ‘Burning’. Listen the dance floor ready track below.Produced by Andrew Wyatt and featuring lyrics and inspiration from The Four Seasons‘ track, ‘Beggin’, Karen O said the fiery track was also inspired by an actual inferno.“Back when I was 19 living in the east village, one night a roommate dragged me out of the apartment for an impromptu drink across the street, I left a votive candle burning on a plastic yaffa block which in my absence set flame to my room,” O said.Karen continued: “Within an hour and a half of having one drink down the block firefighters had come and gone extinguishing the fire, I came home to find that a natural disaster had occurred (to my room) and most of my stuff, lost in the flames.”The songwriter also said that “all electronic goods were melted and demolished like my laptop, cameras etc.” before pointing out how odd it was that “items that held the most sentimental value remained intact like sketchbooks, a favourite sweater with hearts across the chest, and photographs.”She added: “I had photos of my parents in their youth where the fire burnt around the two of them as if there was some intangible force field protecting them, many photos like that, mysteriously leaving the beloved subjects untouched.”A post shared by YEAH YEAH YEAHS (@yeahyeahyeahs)“If the world is on fire I hope the most beloved stay protected and that we do all we can to protect what we cherish most in this life,” O said.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs have returned with new song "Spitting Off the Edge of the World," a collaboration with Perfume Genius. It marks the band's first new material in over nine years and will appear on their newly announced album Cool It Down. The NYC trio's fifth album will be released on September 30 via Secretly Canadian.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs have announced details of ‘Cool It Down’, their first new album in nine years – watch the video for its first single, the Perfume Genius-featuring ‘Spitting Off The Edge Of The World’, below.The New York City trio will follow up 2013’s ‘Mosquito‘ with the new eight-track album on September 30 via their new label home of Secretly Canadian.“To all who have waited, our dear fans, thank you, our fever to tell has returned, and writing these songs came with its fair share of chills, tears, and euphoria when the pain lifts and truth is revealed,” Karen O said of the band’s return in a statement.“Don’t have to tell you how much we’ve been going through in the last nine years since our last record, because you’ve been going through it too, and we love you and we see you, and we hope you feel the feels from the music we’ve made. No shying away from the feels, or backing down from what’s been gripping all of us these days.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorSome nine years after the release of their last album, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are back with a killer new song, “Spitting Off the Edge of the World” and a new album, “Cool It Down,” due Sept. 30 on Secretly Canadian.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs have announced that they’ll be doing a special one-off warm up gig next week in Los Angeles.It comes after the Karen O-fronted trio announced earlier this week that they were making a comeback with their first new single in nine years, ‘Spitting Off The Edge Of The World’.In addition to the new track, which you can hear a snippet of here, Yeah Yeah Yeahs announced a pair of headline shows in New York and Los Angeles set to take place in October.After teasing the gigs over the weekend, the band have now confirmed they’ll take to the stage at NYC’s Forest Hills Stadium on October 1 before visiting the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, California on October 6.But before then, the band will perform a special warm up gig at Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles on Monday (May 30).Taking to social media today (May 27) to announce the gig, the band wrote: “Warm us UP LA and be the FIRST to hear the new tunes. The show before the shows: @teragramla May 30th.”Tickets are on sale now here.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs have announced their first new track in nine years, ‘Spitting Off The Edge Of The World’.The Karen O-fronted trio are set to play their first UK headline gigs since 2013 next month, and previously promised that they’d be showcasing “some tunes so fresh and so NEW” to those crowds.While confirming additional dates in New York and Los Angeles, the YYYs recently revealed that they’d signed a new record deal with Secretly Canadian. “New music! New Era! And New Home…” they wrote.

A plaster cast of Jimi Hendrix’s penis is set to go on display next month in Reykjavik’s Phallological Museum which, its official blurb confirms, boasts “a collection of more than two hundred penises and penile parts belonging to almost all the land and sea mammals that can be found in Iceland”. That includes homo sapiens and therefore rock stars.The Hendrix cast was made by Cynthia Albritton – aka Cynthia Plaster Caster – in 1968 and was donated to the Icelandic museum shortly before her death last month.“It is with feelings of sadness and pride that The Phallological Museum announces that, prior to passing, Cynthia ʹPlaster Casterʹ Albritton decided to donate to the museum … one of a few casts of Jimi Hendrix”, said the museum in a statement on Twitter.Hendrix was not the only rock star who Albritton convinced to have their erect penis dunked in plaster – although he was the first.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs have announced details of two upcoming gigs in New York and L.A. as well as confirming new music is due in the fall.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs appear to have shared a snippet of new music while announcing headline shows in New York and Los Angeles.After teasing the gigs over the weekend, the Karen O-led trio have confirmed they’ll take to the stage at NYC’s Forest Hills Stadium on October 1 before visiting the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, California on October 6.The Linda Lindas will open for the band on both dates, with Japanese Breakfast also appearing as a special guest in LA. An additional support act for the New York concert is still to be announced.It’ll mark the first time be the first time Yeah Yeah Yeahs have played headline shows in New York and Los Angeles since 2017 and 2018 respectively.Tickets go on general sale at 10am local time this Friday (May 6) – buy yours here.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, is releasing his instrumental suite ’41 Strings’ digitally and on vinyl for the first time this summer.The collection, which is made up of four movements that mirror the seasons, arrives on July 1 via Chaikin Records – a label imprint run by Zinner’s Yeah Yeah Yeahs bandmate, Brian Chase.You can listen to one of the songs from the collection, ‘Fall’, here:The collection first premiered in New York in 2011 and was a commission for the 41st anniversary of Earth Day. The album version was recorded in May 2011 at Water Music in New Jersey.’41 Strings’ has been performed in public just three times since then.Performers on the album in addition to Zinner include guitarists Aku Orraca-Tetteh, David Pajo, Siebren Versteeg, and Joshua Zucker, as well as bassist Andy Macleod, drummer Brian Chase, and others.Recently, Yeah Yeah Yeahs announced their first UK headline shows in nine years, where they’re set to try out some new material.

confirmed by her representative, Variety first reported.The native of Chicago’s South Side launched her plaster-casting career in the Windy City circa 1968 after meeting an unlikely patron: Iconoclastic rocker Frank Zappa found the 20-year-old’s artistic vision funny and creative — although he declined to, uh, sit for her — and helped her relocate to Los Angeles.Although guitar god Jimi Hendrix — she “met him” at the Chicago Hilton and Towers in ’68 — was her first cast, she later expanded her oeuvre to include male filmmakers — and eventually the breasts of female artists such as Peaches, Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and many others. (Albritton famously revealed that she found many will assistants who helped prep her subjects for her art.)“I was trying to figure out a way to mold a penis so I thought, ‘Well, let’s get together a kit because that will make it even more absurd and ridiculous — and professional look, and create more laughs,” she said in a 2000 interview.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorCynthia Albritton, a.k.a. Cynthia Plaster Caster, the legendary artist and “recovering groupie” renowned for the plaster casts she took of many top musicians’ erect penises and other body parts, has died after a long illness, her rep confirms to Variety. She was 74.Her collection included Jimi Hendrix, Wayne Kramer of MC5, Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks, Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys as well as female breasts from the likes of Laetitia Sadier of Stereolab, Sally Timms of the Mekons, Peaches, Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and many others.

Paris-based musician, composer, and producer TRZTN (Tristan Bechet) once worked with Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O on the soundtrack to the cute and stylish Where The Wild Things Are soundtrack. It's safe to say the wold has gotten a little darker in the decade since that 209 release and, so too, has TRZTN's music.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O has teamed up with Paris-based musician TRZTN (aka Tristan Bechet) for his collaborative track ‘Hieroglyphs’.In the electronic-heavy single, Bechet distorts O’s vocals, setting them against a soundscape of synths and industrial percussion and making for an ominous feel.Watch the video, directed by Barnaby Roper and featuring dancer Victoria Dauberville, below:‘Hieroglyphs’ is lifted from TRZTN’s forthcoming album, ‘Royal Dagger Ballet’, set for release January 22.

The members of Yeah Yeah Yeahs aren't going to let the coronavirus pandemic stop them from throwing a party, even if it's at home alone in a closet.On Saturday night (May 23), Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer Karen O shared a video of herself wildly performing the trio's 2006 song "Phenomena" in a closet decorated with gold tinsel and a laptop broadcasting a masked Nick Zinner on guitar."Party anywhere (closet) anytime (any day of the week) safe at home," Karen O, who donned a pharaoh hat and face mask,