hey all you belgian fans, and those finding themselves in brussels this summer!
nick's photography is featured in the recently opened exhibition "it's not only rock 'n' roll, baby!" at the center for fine arts inbrussels.his work appears alongside fellow musicians/artist including; brian eno, patti smith, the kills, alan vega, and many, many others.the show runs until september 14th, check it out if you can.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs have been hopscotching down the road less traveled- from a barn in the Northeast to a ranch in the Southwest on our journey for the next sound. Why go RURAL? We're not yet sure ourselves, but one thing the city don't have that the country got is SPACE and there has been plenty of spacing out in the studio as of late.
KITTEN FACTOR
Fuzzy soft muses aka kittens have played a major role in the writing process of YYYs current and past records. Show Your Bones was written in Sam Spiegel's home studio amidst the birth of a litter of kittens, little gold lions scrambling around. Amazingly therapeutic, nothing turns a frown upside down (there are many frowns in the record writing process) as a purring kitten in your lap. Alas our favorite kitten of all beloved SQUEAKER arrived just in time for record three! Abandoned by his mother, we've watched him grow before our very eyes from a blind and helpless little thing into a frisky and fierce little beauty- much like the tunes we're writing. Go figure.
Tees and Tanks are currently on sale in the YYYs store…just in time for summer!All Items are available to ALL customers, domestic and international alike, so stop by and stock up.
Ladies and Germs- we at casa del YYYs are proud to alert you to our collective acting debut: "Hologram World", a music video for The Tiny Masters Of Today.
Directed by Kids With Canes, aka Karen O + Barnaby Clay, the video contains perennial themes applicable to all such as Kids vs. Adults, punks vs. the Socs, and The Living vs. The Undead. Aside from your favorite favorites, it features cameos from members of The Beastie Boys, Services, Blues Explosion, and The Butthole Surfers. Unleash The Beast here:
We have a wet and wild feeling about 2008 and we're not kidding.YYYs are currently writing and recording another record. A chunk of December was spent on a musical farm in Mass throwing cow dung at each other, making music makes us do strange things. Holidays brought adventures and performances into the YYY foreground.Nick defected to Mexico where he swam with dolphins, made friends with bats in caves with lakes, got into fights with teenage hotel managers and climbed pyramids. Brian froze his balls off in Brooklyn. Karen went backpacking in Europe, it's something mostly young broke students do but with the dollar so weak it was still expensive.
On a work front Brian has been ringing in both sides of this New Year with music and friends, performing with Matt Welch's BPO (http://profile.myspace.com/matthewtobinwelch), Jeremiah Lockwood's the Sway Machinery (http://www.swaymachinery.com), and Mike Pride's Drummer's Corpse (http://www.myspace.com/snugglestencil). Also, he's been at work on a project of solo recordings he's calling, for now, "drums and drones" which are inspired by La Monte Young's Dream House (http://melafoundation.org). Outside of music, Brians' practicing Ashtanga Yoga (http://ayri.org/) and is excited about where that's taking him.But, most of all, looking forward to New Music in this New Year with YYYs!!!Nick had a solo photo show in Tokyo and has remixes coming out nowish for celebration, hives, and manson. He's working on another photo book, LOOOKOUT for his fashion photo in the new Vice, and a bunch of other photos in the Vice photo book. Karen is piddling around on various top secret projects that are getting little attention now that the next record is on its way. She just finished co-directing a low budget music video for the Tiny Masters of Today. Other than that she has been obsessing over various television series that she received as x-mas presents, her favorite being the UK's own Mighty Boosh http://themightyboosh.com/ .If that's all too much information, sorry but needed to catch you all up.
New Year, new music, new website, new attitude, same old lovin from us to you!
This is the last week for everyone in Tokyo to check out the Nick Zinner Photo Exhibition at Social. The show ends December 2, details and directions below.
Fresh off the plane and wishing we could take one more bite of the fire pig.
YYYs climbed the Great Wall of China, strolled the courtyards of the Forbidden Palace, drove past the Bird's Nest Olympic stadium, ate Peking duck head, and played to a very wet crowd of Beijing youths (rain came down by the bucket load).We've brought back with us the sounds and smells of China's burgeoning new rock scene- bands like Re-Tros and Queen Sea Big Shark, New Pants and P.K.14 (among many others!!) They f***ed us up! CHECK THEM OUT THEY ARE ALL ON MYSPACE- so you can hear what we heard and maybe see what we saw:
We'd like to put out an extra BIG thank you to all the lovely people at Modern Sky Festival who brought us out and kept us well fed and happy for our brief stay!! Stay tuned for PHOTOS!
YYYs date with GVR is less than a week away, and we have set aside 125 pairs of tickets especially for YOU!!!Winners will be chosen at random, and will be notified via email by Oct 3 at 5pm.Even if you do not win, more ticket drops will be announced on GVR's website and on KROQ all week.This is a FREE event, you just need to win or pick up tickets by Oct 6 to attend.
