[LISTEN] Little May - Skeletons (Yeah Yeah Yeahs Cover)

It's not every day you see a cover of a Yeah Yeah Yeahs song pop up on Soundcloud, but that's exactly what we have here. Little May's cover of YYY's track "Skeletons" is a far cry from the origonal, it's less hectic and a lot more chilled out. Laced with smooth and delicate vocals, ambient washes of synths and stunning prodction, this is a cover that Karen O would be proud of.

Karen O stream new track "Rapt"

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs' front-woman has recorded a brand new solo album called "Crush Songs", the debut solo effort from Karen O is also being released on The Strokes' front-man's - Julian Casablancas - label!

The album features songs that were written back in 2006 and 2007! Karen says:

"When I was 27 I crushed a lot. I wasn’t sure I’d ever fall in love again. These songs were written and recorded in private around this time. They are the soundtrack to what was an ever continuing love crusade. I hope they keep you company on yours"

 "Crush Songs" is out July 9th via Cult Recordings.

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Daily Download...Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Always (Overjoy Remix)

Los Angeles DJs and longtime buds DJ Metric & Hoff have combined forces this summer to create new production duo Overjoy. Today they bring you their all-new-never-before-released banging remix to the Yeah Yeah Yeah's loungey melodramatic opus "Always" absolutely for FREE!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs unveil video for "Despair"

Yeah Yeah Yeahs have unveiled their brand new video for the next single off their album, this time "Despair" gets a video, check it out below!

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs set to play an intimate London show

On the back of the much hyped "Mosquito" and ahead of their headline billingt at Latitude Festival, Yeah Yeah Yeahs are set to play an intimate London show at the Islington Academy, taking place on 15th July.

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs upload new video for "Mosquito"

Looks like they've ran out of money here, Yeah Yeah Yeahs have uploaded the video for the album title track.

You can check it out just below.

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Album Review... Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Mosquito

Veterans Karen O, Brian Chase and Nick Zinner are back with their fourth album in the 10th year from the publication of their first album “Fever To Tell”. They say first impressions are often the truest, and the unveiling of the cover for “Mosquito” was a shocking one. Most of the fans, (and I include myself among them) freaked out when we saw the controversial design of Beomsik Shimbe Shim. Of course, something that we love about Yeah Yeah Yeahs is their capacity to be different and surprising; but maybe that was too much.

Fortunately, originality plays another role when it comes to the album itself. Eleven songs with the production of David Sitek and Nick Launay offer a lo-fi collage of their past works together with some new experimentation. The album will be officially released on the 15th of April but a full-album stream with track-by-track commentaries is already available online.

"Sacrilege", the first track released as a single and the first track of the album, was named Best New Track by Pitchfork. The song was written when the band was in New Orleans, and by picking up the religious tradition of gospel and mixing it with Karen O’s voice, they created this brilliant anthem. The second track, "Subway" is the most hypnotic and involving song in the album. It depicts an everyday routine moment for most of us and softly sends us to sleep into our consciousness using the metro rattle sample as a lullaby. The track that gives name to the album, "Mosquito" suddenly wakes us up immediately, as the bite of a mosquito itself would do in the middle of the night. Whispered and called by Karen’s whispering, the mosquito is invoked by the drums to “suck your blood”. Pay attention because you’ll be able to hear even a mosquito buzzing. The next tracks, half-decided between softness, sexuality and intensity, balance the high and low moments of the album. They aren’t as attractive as the other tracks at first listen, but surely grow after a few times. "Under The Earth", evokes one of the dark corners of the streets of New York. It slows down the rhythm and brings up experimentation with random sounds. Following its vibe, "Slave" brings back It’s Blitz! sounds, with a synth beginning, an engaging guitar presence and an appealing rhythm, it makes us slaves in the search of the final climax begging: “keep me, keep me”.

"These Paths" experiments with the adding of layers based on a sample of six notes repeated through all the song. This track enjoys the highest registers in Karen’s voice so my advice is to savour it and don’t try to sing it at home.

Nick’s riff begins "Area 52"; an emergency call that ends up sweaty and aggressively. Every time I listen to it, I imagine the video version of it, an action 80s movie, green liquid blood and enormous OVNI over our heads maybe? This alien invasion is, together with Mosquito and Buried Alive, the rock ingredients in the album taking us back to their first album sounds.

The collaboration with Dr Octagon in "Buried Alive" results in an interesting horror atmosphere, it has been slightly rejected by some fans, but from my point of view, Yeah Yeah Yeahs’s guest (together with producer James Murphy) matches successfully the album’s expectations. Concluding the album, "Always", described as an engagement song by Karen O, echoes, simple and direct. A minimalistic lyric, music based song that brings "Despair", the Hysteric equivalent. These last pieces end the album emotionally and beautifully together with "Wedding Song".

There is something for everyone and also something from every of their previous works. As a whole, it has some mood swings not recommended for a non-stop listening from beginning to end of the record, but if you are looking for a song to match your romantic spirit, an energy injection, or a dark, horror movie night, Mosquito will have what you need.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Mosquito
Out of 10: 7/10

Written by - Belén Martínez Saiz

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Watch Yeah Yeah Yeahs perform "Sacrilege" on Letterman

As we inch ever so closer to the release of the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs album it's that time where the band are doing the live talk shows, and today we've got them performing "Sacrilege" on Letterman.

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs début new track "Mosquito"

Yeah Yeah Yeahs have débuted a brand new track via The New York Times, you can listen to the track by clicking here (the track is on the left hand side of the page).

The album of the same name is set for release on 15th April. You can also check out the new video for "Sacrilege" while you're here!

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs unveil new song "Sacrilege"

As you may all know Yeah Yeah Yeahs are back this year with a brand spanking new album, and with that came the brilliant album cover. But today we've got something special for you, a listen to the brand new track "Sacrilege". 

May UK dates:
1 Manchester Apollo
2 Leeds Academy
4 London Alexandra Palace

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs album confirmed for 2013

The band take to Twitter to confirm the follow-up to 2009's 'It's Blitz!' is due next year in the Spring time.

The message from the band read...

DNA upgrades, spontaneous evolution and NEW YEAH YEAH YEAHS RECORD ARRIVING SPRING 2013!

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs to release new album in spring 2013

Yeah Yeah Yeahs are set to release a new album in the spring of next year, according to reports. Speaking on Los Angeles radio station KCRW, Jason Bentley - who hosts the Morning Becomes Eclectic show – said that the art-rock band would be releasing the follow-up to 2009's 'It's Blitz' in the "springtime" of 2013.

Also while speaking to The Sun, Karen O said she had

"been tinkering around on some new Yeah Yeah Yeahs music with the boys." 

Expect a formal announcement soon!

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