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Yeah Yeah Yeahs are an American
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band formed in New York City in 2000. The group is composed of vocalist and pianist
Karen O Karen Lee Orzolek (born November 22, 1978) is a South Korean-born American singer, musician, and songwriter. She is best known as the lead vocalist of the indie rock band the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Early life Karen Lee Orzolek was born in Seoul, So ...
(born Karen Lee Orzolek), guitarist and keyboardist
Nick Zinner Nicholas Joseph Zinner (born December 8, 1974) is the guitarist and record producer for the New York rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Zinner is also a photographer. Musical career Before forming the Yeah Yeahs Yeahs with Karen O and Brian Chase in 2000 ...
, and drummer
Brian Chase Brian William Chase (born February 12, 1978) is an American drummer and drone musician who plays in the New York rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs. He was ranked at No. 50 in Gigwise's list of ''The Greatest Drummers of All Time''. Career Chase me ...
. They are complemented in live performances by second guitarist
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), who joined as a touring member in 2009 and replaced
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, who had previously held the role. According to a 2004 interview that aired during their appearance on ABC's ''Live from
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'' series, the band's name was taken from modern New York City
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. The band has recorded five studio albums; the first, ''
Fever to Tell ''Fever to Tell'' is the debut studio album by American indie rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs, released on April 29, 2003, by Interscope Records. It was produced by David Andrew Sitek and mixed by Alan Moulder. Four singles were issued, the first bei ...
'', was released in 2003. The second, ''
Show Your Bones ''Show Your Bones'' is the second studio album by American indie rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs, released on March 22, 2006 by Interscope Records. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 2007. Background and mus ...
'', was released in 2006 and was named the second-best album of the year by ''
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''. Their third studio album, ''
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'', was released in March 2009. All three albums earned the band Grammy nominations for Best Alternative Music Album. Their fourth record, ''
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'', came out in April 2013. In September 2022, they released ''
Cool It Down ''Cool It Down'' is the fifth studio album by American indie rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs, released on September 30, 2022, through Secretly Canadian. It marks the group's first album since 2013's ''Mosquito'' and their first release through Secretly ...
'', and the album was also nominated for a Grammy award.


History


Formation and ''Fever to Tell'' (1990s–2004)

Karen Orzolek Karen Lee Orzolek (born November 22, 1978) is a South Korean-born American singer, musician, and songwriter. She is best known as the lead vocalist of the indie rock band the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Early life Karen Lee Orzolek was born in Seoul, So ...
and
Brian Chase Brian William Chase (born February 12, 1978) is an American drummer and drone musician who plays in the New York rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs. He was ranked at No. 50 in Gigwise's list of ''The Greatest Drummers of All Time''. Career Chase me ...
first met as students at
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in Ohio in the late 1990s, where Chase was a jazz student at the conservatory. Karen then transferred to
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and met
Nick Zinner Nicholas Joseph Zinner (born December 8, 1974) is the guitarist and record producer for the New York rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Zinner is also a photographer. Musical career Before forming the Yeah Yeahs Yeahs with Karen O and Brian Chase in 2000 ...
, a student at
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, in a local bar, where they formed an "instant connection". During this time, they also shared a loft with future members of the band
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. Orzolek and Zinner formed an acoustic duo called Unitard but soon decided to "shake things up a bit" by forming a "trashy, punky, grimy" band modeled after the art student,
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bands Karen O was exposed to at Oberlin. After the drummer they initially recruited bowed out, Chase joined the lineup. The band wrote a slew of songs at their first rehearsal and soon wound up supporting
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, earning a significant buzz for their arty and garage punk scene. In late 2001, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs released their self-titled debut EP, which they recorded with
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's Jerry Teel, on their own Shifty label. Early the next year, they stepped into the international spotlight, appearing at
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, touring the U.S. with
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, and Europe with
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, and headlining their own U.K. tour.
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distributed the group's EP in the U.K. and Touch and Go reissued it in the States. In 2003, the band released their debut album, ''
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'', which received several strong critical reviews and sold more than 750,000 copies worldwide. The album's third single, "
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", received significant airplay on
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radio. In 2010, ''
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. The video for their 2004 single "
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" was directed by
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. In October 2004, the band released their first DVD, ''
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''. The DVD included a concert filmed at
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in San Francisco, all of the band's music videos to date, and various interviews. Later the same year, they were featured in
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''. In November 2009, ''
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'' rated ''Fever to Tell'' the fifth-best album of the decade.


''Show Your Bones'', ''Is Is'', and ''It's Blitz!'' (2005–2009)

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs' second album, ''
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'', was released on March 28, 2006. Karen O told
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'' 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, "
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", was released on March 20, 2006, reaching number 18 in the Official UK Singles Chart. The band toured throughout Europe and the United States during much of 2006, and also helped to curate an edition of the British
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festival. In December 2006, the album was named second-best album of the year by ''
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'' magazine, and "Cheated Hearts" was voted tenth-best song. ''
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'' magazine named ''Show Your Bones'' the 44th-best album of 2006, while ''
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'' magazine ranked it number 31 on their 40 best albums of 2006. Yeah Yeah Yeahs' third EP, titled '' Is Is'', was released on July 24, 2007. It includes 5 previously unreleased songs and a short film, which was recorded and filmed at the
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in Brooklyn, NY. The songs were written in 2004, during the Fever To Tell tour, and performed live often. Three of the five tracks were featured on the ''
Tell Me What Rockers to Swallow ''Tell Me What Rockers to Swallow'' is a music DVD released by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs on October 25, 2004, through Polydor. The main feature of the DVD is the band's live performance at The Fillmore in San Francisco on March 17, 2004, with bonus s ...
'' DVD. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs' next album was released in March 2009 and titled ''
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''. The band stated the album sounds different from their previous ones but "still oundslike Yeah Yeah Yeahs". It was originally set to be published on April 13, but following an
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on February 22, the band's label, Interscope, pulled the release date closer to reduce the leak's impact. The album spawned three singles: "
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", " Heads Will Roll", and "
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". ''It's Blitz!'' was named second-best album of 2009 by ''
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'' and third-best by ''
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'', along with "
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" from the album listed as the best track of the year by both.


''Mosquito'' and hiatus (2011–2016)

On December 9, 2011, Karen O reported to ''NME'' that she had been working on new music with the band, hinting a new album was possibly in the making. On January 14, 2013, it was announced via their official Facebook page that the new album would be titled ''
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''. It was released on April 16, of the same year. The album features production by
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's
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,
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, and LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy. The first single, "
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", was released on February 15, 2013. "Despair" was released as the second single on July 23, 2013. In December 2014, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs went on hiatus. In 2016, the band received writing credits on the
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single " Hold Up".


Return, reissue of ''Fever to Tell'', and ''Cool It Down'' (2017–2022)

On June 20, 2017, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs announced that they would be headlining the Austin "Sound on Sound" festival on November 10, adding: "Watch for more news coming soon" The Sound on Sound festival was subsequently cancelled. On May 26, 2018, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs played at All Points Festival in Victoria Park, London. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs released a deluxe remastering of their debut album ''Fever to Tell'' on October 20, 2017, through Interscope / UMe. It features previously unreleased demos, B-sides, and other rarities from the era. In a press release, the band announced, "A friend of a friend kept asking if we were ever gonna put ''Fever to Tell'' out on vinyl as it hasn't been on vinyl in 10 years. That's not right. So here it is on vinyl for the first time in 10 years plus a time capsule of photos, demos (1st ever recorded,) a mini film documenting our near downfall and other fun memorabilia, from the turn of the century NYC, made with love + the usual blood, sweat + tears of Yeah Yeah Yeahs." To celebrate the reissue, the band performed a small series of shows in October and November at
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in Los Angeles, California, the
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in Oakland, California, and Kings Theatre in Brooklyn, New York. In June 2022, the band announced that they would be releasing the album ''
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'' on September 30, making it their first record in nine years. They released the first single, "Spitting Off the Edge of the World", featuring
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, on June 1. On September 29, 2022, the band performed their second single, "Burning", on ''
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'' as part of the show's weeklong residency at the
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Musical style

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Band members

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Karen O Karen Lee Orzolek (born November 22, 1978) is a South Korean-born American singer, musician, and songwriter. She is best known as the lead vocalist of the indie rock band the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Early life Karen Lee Orzolek was born in Seoul, So ...
– vocals, piano, keyboards *
Nick Zinner Nicholas Joseph Zinner (born December 8, 1974) is the guitarist and record producer for the New York rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Zinner is also a photographer. Musical career Before forming the Yeah Yeahs Yeahs with Karen O and Brian Chase in 2000 ...
– guitar, bass, keyboards, synthesizers *
Brian Chase Brian William Chase (born February 12, 1978) is an American drummer and drone musician who plays in the New York rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs. He was ranked at No. 50 in Gigwise's list of ''The Greatest Drummers of All Time''. Career Chase me ...
– drums, percussion


Awards and nominations

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Discography

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Fever to Tell ''Fever to Tell'' is the debut studio album by American indie rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs, released on April 29, 2003, by Interscope Records. It was produced by David Andrew Sitek and mixed by Alan Moulder. Four singles were issued, the first bei ...
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Show Your Bones ''Show Your Bones'' is the second studio album by American indie rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs, released on March 22, 2006 by Interscope Records. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 2007. Background and mus ...
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It's Blitz! ''It's Blitz!'' is the third studio album by American indie rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs, released on March 6, 2009, by Interscope Records. It was originally set for release on April 13, 2009. However, after being leaked to the Internet on Februar ...
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Cool It Down ''Cool It Down'' is the fifth studio album by American indie rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs, released on September 30, 2022, through Secretly Canadian. It marks the group's first album since 2013's ''Mosquito'' and their first release through Secretly ...
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References


External links

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BBC artist page


early list of links to interviews, photos, etc.
"Yeah Yeah Yeahs: The Love Cats"
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