Yeah yeah yeahs

Yeah yeah yeahs
General information
origin	New York , United States
Genre (s)	Indie rock , art punk , garage rock
founding	2000
Website	www.yeahyeahyeahs.com
Founding members
singing	Karen Orzolek
guitar	Nicholas Zinner
Current occupation
singing	Karen Orzolek
guitar	Nicholas Zinner
Drums	Brian Chase (since 2000)
former members
guitar	Imaad Wasif (live member from 2006 to 2009)
Live members
guitar	David Pajo (since 2009)

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Fever to Tell   UK 13  gold 05/10/2003 (10 weeks)   US 55  gold 05/17/2003 (28 weeks) Show your bones   DE 65 04/07/2006 (1 week)   AT 54 04/07/2006 (2 weeks)   UK 7th  gold 04/08/2006 (10 weeks)   US 11 04/15/2006 (10 weeks) It's lightning!   DE 71 04/17/2009 (2 weeks)   AT 61 04/17/2009 (2 weeks)   CH 85 04/19/2009 (1 week)   UK 9  gold 04/18/2009 (8 weeks)   US 22nd 03/28/2009 (28 weeks) Mosquito   DE 63 04/26/2013 (1 week)   AT 44 04/26/2013 (1 week)   CH 76 04/28/2013 (1 week)   UK 9 04/27/2013 (5 weeks)   US 5 05/04/2013 (2 weeks)

Singles

Machine   UK 37 11/16/2002 (2 weeks) Date with the night   UK 16 04/26/2003 (2 weeks) Pin code   UK 29 07/05/2003 (2 weeks) Maps   UK 26th 04/10/2003 (2 weeks)   US 87 03/13/2004 (13 weeks) Y Control   UK 54 11/13/2004 (2 weeks) Gold lion   UK 18th 03/25/2006 (4 weeks)   US 88 03/31/2006 (3 weeks) Turn Into   UK 53 07/01/2006 (2 weeks) zero   UK 49 04/11/2009 (5 weeks) Heads will roll   DE 73  gold 01/25/2013 (6 weeks)   UK 89  gold December 26, 2009 (2 weeks)

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are a rock band founded in New York in 2000 . The band consists of singer and pianist Karen O, guitarist and keyboardist Nick Zinner and drummer Brian Chase.

history

Karen Orzolek (Karen O) and Nicholas "Nick" Zinner formed the band in 2000 as a folk duo under the original name Unitard . After a first drummer left the band, Brian Chase joined the lineup. From the beginning with acoustic guitar and vocals, the band, inspired by the avant punk scene in Ohio , increasingly switched to electric guitars and finally defined their style, which can best be described as indie rock , but often also under art- Punk and Garage Rock is classified.

After support gigs for The Strokes and The White Stripes , the band released their first EP titled Yeah Yeah Yeahs in 2001 . The EP is sometimes incorrectly referred to as Master because of a necklace with the pendant Master on the cover photo . After further appearances with Sleater-Kinney , Liars and The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion , the second EP Machine was released in 2002 .

In 2003, the first studio album was finally released on Interscope with the title Fever to Tell . The album received mostly very positive reviews and was nominated for a Grammy in 2004 in the Best Alternative Music Album category. According to the British daily The Guardian , Fever to Tell has sold more than a million times.

From the second album Show Your Bones , which followed in autumn 2006, the band was supported by guitarist Imaad Wasif during live performances. The first single from the album was Gold Lion . In 2007 the EP Is Is was released .

The planned for April 2009 release of the third album It's Blitz! was brought forward to March 10th after the album was leaked on the internet in February. Since the tour for this album, David Pajo has replaced Imaad Wasif as the second guitarist for live performances.

The fourth album, entitled Mosquito , was released on April 16, 2013.

Discography

Albums

• 2003: Fever to Tell
• 2006: Show Your Bones
• 2009: It's Blitz!
• 2013: Mosquito

EPs

• 2001: Yeah Yeah Yeahs
• 2002: Machine
• 2006: Yeah Yeah Yeahs: iTunes Session EP
• 2007: Is Is

Singles

• 2002: Machine
• 2003: Pin
• 2003: Date with the Night
• 2004: Maps
• 2004: Y Control
• 2006: Gold Lion
• 2006: Turn Into
• 2006: Cheated Hearts
• 2007: Down Boy
• 2009: Zero
• 2009: Heads Will Roll
• 2013: Sacrilege

Video albums

• 2004: Tell Me What Rockers to Swallow

Others

• Karen O was born in South Korea as Karen Lee Orzolek. Her mother is Korean and her father is from Poland. On the soundtrack of the biopic I'm Not There about Bob Dylan , she sings Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited .
• Nick Zinner is a member of the hardcore punk band Head Wound City , which also includes members of The Locust and The Blood Brothers . On the 2005 album Digital Ash in a Digital Urn by Bright Eyes, he worked on several titles as a guitarist and keyboardist. He is also featured as guitarist on the 2008 debut album Anywhere I Lay My Head by actress Scarlett Johansson .

Web links

Commons : Yeah Yeah Yeahs  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website (English)
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs at laut.de
• YeahYeah Yeahs at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
2. ↑ ^{a b} Awards for Music Sales: DE UK US
3. ↑ ^{a b} portrait on allmusic.com
4. ↑ Reviews on metacritic.com
5. ^ The Guardian, March 30, 2009 article
6. ↑ Yeah Yeah Yeahs to release album early due to leak In: New Musical Express from March 3, 2009
7. ^ Goldberg, Michael Alan (July 29, 2009). Interview: Yeah Yeah Yeah's drummer Brian Chase ( Memento of the original from August 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Philadelphia Weekly blogs. 
8. ↑ Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Goth, Nerd, Slut ( Memento of April 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Article in Rolling Stone of April 7, 2006.