Subject: Yeah Yeah Yeahs

• Tom Waits for Scarlett Johansson

  Scarlett has Tom on her side. Scorching-hot actor Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation, Ghost World, Match Point) will be releasing her debut album, Anywhere I Lay My Head (I have some suggestions), May 20 on Atco/Rhino. The disc includes one original Johansson composition and 10 interpretations of Tom Waits songs. TV on the Radio's David Sitek, Yeah Yeah Yeahs' guitarist Nick Zinner, Celebration's Sean Antanaitis and others lent their talents to the Scarlett opus, which was recorded at Lo

  January 24, 2008

• Last Night: Black Keys and Grand Ole Party at HOB

  Better than: A ride on Space Mountain Anyone who’s seen The Black Keys at least once knows that a packed house filled with blues and body heat usually comes standard. And as I swung open the door to the House of Blues to find an audience crammed in like a can of sardines, I knew I was at the right concert. Last night, The Black Keys stopped in Anaheim during their U.S. tour, brining with them Grand Ole Party, a three pack of big beat rockers from San Diego. By the time I got a good look at

  August 26, 2008

• Gap Kids

  March 11, 2004

• Get Out!

  June 22, 2006

• Album Review: Franz Ferdinand, 'Tonight: Franz Ferdinand'

  New Franz Ferdinand album out today! We've got a review this week in the Weekly, but here it is, a couple days early. It's like we traveled through time somehow!Franz Ferdinand Tonight: Franz Ferdinand (Domino)Bowing in early 2004, Franz Ferdinand's superb self-titled debut album hit at the exact right time. Modern American-rock radio was finally beginning to unearth itself from years of turgid nu-metal and was ready to embrace, if half-heartedly, arty indie acts such as Interpol, the Yeah Yeah

  January 27, 2009

• OC/LBC Bands Head to South By Southwest

  March 12, 2009

• Crystal Antlers Debut Full-Length Now Available on iTunes!

  Based on the strength of their six-song EP (entitled, uh, EP), Long Beach's Crystal Antlers were signed to Chicago's Touch and Go, the same label that helped bring the world the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and TV on the Radio. So given that, you can imagine how hotly anticipated (so hot!) their first full-length record, Tentacles, is among discriminating music lovers. Though the physical album (yes, those still exist) doesn't hit stores (yes, those still exist too, at least for now) until April 7, you can g

  March 9, 2009

• [Coachella 2009] Everything New Is Old Again--and Vice Versa

  April 9, 2009

• [CD Review] Yeah Yeah Yeahs, 'It's Blitz!' (Interscope)

  April 2, 2009

• [CD Review] N.A.S.A., 'The Spirit of Apollo' (Anti-)

  February 26, 2009

• Nickel Eye

  January 29, 2009

• [CD Review] Franz Ferdinand, 'Tonight: Franz Ferdinand' (Domino)

  January 29, 2009

• California Dreaming

  Golden Animals

  September 18, 2008

• Hotter Than the Temperature at Coachella? Black Lips, Animal Collective, Duffy and 43 More

  April 17, 2008

• But What About the Hip-hop, Tom?

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  March 15, 2007

• Hits!

  September 6, 2007

• Alices Got a Brand New Bag

  August 21, 2003

• Hits!

  Bionic Records
  

  August 9, 2007

• Singles Going Steady

  The best end-to-end albums from a single-driven year

  December 28, 2006

• Uncross Your Arms

  June 1, 2006

• Get Out!

  June 1, 2006

• Mediocre? You Can't Be Serious

  In defense of Coachella

  May 4, 2006

• Hits!

  May 4, 2006

• Hits!

  April 27, 2006

• Rich Man, Po Boy

  October 13, 2005

• Live Previews

  October 14, 2004

• New Wavy, Less Gravy

  The Fever: From arty to tarty

  August 5, 2004

• Eight Days

  March 18, 2004

• Oiled and Topless!

  March 11, 2004

• The Guy From the Liars Got Stabbed in the Face!

  September 19, 2002

• Sucking Strap-ons

  March 28, 2002

• Live(ish) from Coachella: Killers? Headliners? Sure!

  It's late, and I should probably sleep (or something resembling it) at this point (big day tomorrow: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, My Bloody Valentine, Public Enemy, Friendly Fires, the Cure, PB&J, Lykke Li, Okkervil River etc. etc.!) but I thought I'd share the setlist (and some totally astute observations) from Saturday headliners, the Killers.The Killers have gotten a ton of crap for not being headliner-worthy, and though the crowd for them was definitely thinner than it was for, say, Paul McCartney l

  April 19, 2009

• (About to Be) Live from Coachella: The H is O

  Get ready for the longest, hottest day yet! Forecast is for 100 degrees! The Cure will probably play for like three hours! What a time to be alive. If you can manage to stay alive, at least. Never a guarantee. Huge, huge day for shows: Cure, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, My Bloody Valentine, Public Enemy, Paul Weller, Peter Bjorn and John, Lykke Li, Okkervil River, K'Naan, Friendly Fires (the show we didn't get to see at Detroit on Tuesday), Clipse. Holy poop. See you out there.

  April 19, 2009

• Live from Coachella: Is There a Band Cooler than the Yeah Yeah Yeahs? Honestly?

  Yeah Yeah Yeahs. So great. Right now they're doing "Maps." You know, from that video game Rock Band! That picture is from them doing "Cheated Hearts." They were just on Saturday Night Live eight days ago (with host Zac Efron! OMG!) and here they are at Coachella. Pretty cool. I raved about their new album just a few weeks ago in the Weekly, and they did plenty of tracks from that: "Dull Life." "Zero." "Skeletons." And of course, Karen O is wearing a fetching glittery gold outfit. At least it loo

  April 19, 2009

• Weenie Roast Lineup Announced: Weezer, Jimmy Eat World, Kings of Leon

  Andrew YoussefThe full lineup for KROQ's annual Weenie Roast show was released today, a whopping TWELVE DAYS! before the show itself. Seems kinda quick, right? Oh well. It still looks like a pretty good show, headlined by Weezer and Jimmy Eat World (pictured)--they toured together in 2001!--Kings of Leon, Silversun PIckups, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Rancid, Airborne Toxic Event and the much-polarizing Asher Roth.Tickets for the show, which takes place on May 16 at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irv

  May 4, 2009

• KROQ Weenie Roast lineup announced

  The 2009 version of KROQ's annual summer blowout, the Weenie Roast y Fiesta, is hitting the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater May 16. That's like less than two weeks away, so get on it. Bands include Weezer (who still don't have or bassist Matt Sharp back in the band, even though everyone knows they should), Kings of Leon, Jimmy Eat World, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Rancid, Silversun Pickups, the Airborne Toxic Event, Cage the Elephant and White Lies on the main stage and Hollywood Undead, Asher Roth, Anberli

  May 5, 2009

• KROQ's Weenie Roast

  May 14, 2009

• Beating a Dead Horse: Coachella Third Day Pics, Easy Access Links!

  Coachella may be a distant, sweaty, sticky memory at this point, but that doesn't mean that I'm willing or able to shut up about it quite yet. Beth Stirnaman had some car troubles, causing her arduous trek from Indio to be delayed (and nothing's better than being stuck in Indio when there isn't a huge music festival going on), but did that stop her from delivering these great day three images? Heck no! Check them out here. She got Peter Bjorn & John, Perry Farrell, K'naan, the Yeah Yeah Yeah

  April 21, 2009

• Last Saturday: KROQ Weenie Roast at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater

  Andrew YoussefLast Night: KROQ Weenie Roast at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater; Saturday May 16, 2009. (More pictures here.)Better Than: Wango Tango.Download: Videos from the day at KROQ.com.The KROQ Weenie Roast is typically full of surprises. With Blink 182 reuniting the night prior at a private party, the fact that TRV$DJ-AM were closing the evening led to rampant speculation that Blink-182 would be the final act. But the Blink-182 reunion didn't happen.A last minute shuffling had KROQ move

  May 18, 2009

• Incoming: Yeah Yeah Yeahs at the Fox Theater--Pre-sale Info!

  Beth StirnamanKaren O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs at Coachella 2009. She's cool.​Well, this rules. Yeah Yeah Yeahs are coming to the lovely Fox Theater in Pomona on September 15. Why, that's nearly a month away--which means that tickets are on sale soon. Like, two hours soon. There's a 24-hour pre-sale going on from 10 a.m. today until 10 a.m. on Friday right here. Password is "BLITZ," as in It's Blitz, their rad third album which came out earlier this year. (Read our review here.) General on-sale, fo

  August 13, 2009

• Late Slip: Deep Sea Diver on Daytrotter. Right on Time: Dobson tours with Yeah Yeah Yeahs

  Johnnie Cluney/ Daytrotter​So back in June, I mentioned that Long Beach singer/song writer Jessica Dobson (aka Deep Sea Diver) would be hanging out with her band in good ole' Rock Island, Illinois to record some tracks for Daytrotter during her summer tour with Connor Oberst and the Mystic Valley band. Remember how excited you were when I told you that? But after months of going back to the Daytrotter website in hopes of stumbling onto some DD tracks...I found nothing. Gradually, I started che

  September 14, 2009

• Crowdsourced: The Killers at Bren Events Center

  ​The Killers did their thing at a sold-out Bren Events Center in UC Irvine last night, a fairly small venue for such a big act. I wasn't there (was at Yeah Yeah Yeahs at the Fox Theater in Pomona, and have yet to master the art of bilocation), but you were. And you had some things to say about it, so enjoy this round-up of tweets from the show. (All creative spellings/selective capitalization are courtesy the individual Twitterers.) Response was uniformly positive to the Killers themselves, bu

  September 16, 2009

• Last Night: Yeah Yeah Yeahs at the Fox Theater, Pomona

  Beth Stirnaman(Don't be confused. This picture is from this year's Coachella.)​Last Night: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yacht at the Fox Theater, Pomona; September 15, 2009.Better Than: Your third-straight in-tribute viewing of Road House.Karen O Fashion Report: Pretty conservative: a white dress with primary color patterns, and a matching shawl that she came out wearing like a cape. Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer Karen O seems to be strikingly earnest when it comes to her emotions. She looked like she's crying i

  September 16, 2009

• [Sound Guy] Jessica Dobson's Connections Run Deep. Plus News From Local Natives and Jeffree Star

  September 17, 2009

• [Sound Guy] The Yost and the Fox Pomona Are All Dressed Up But Without a Lot of Shows

  October 8, 2009

• Deep Sea Diver Not Playing with the Fling Tonight, Should Be Fun Anyway

  ​Deep Sea Diver, that always-enjoyable Long Beach band headed up by the multi-talented Jessica Dobson, were originally scheduled to play Detroit Bar tonight as part of the Fling's residency--they're still on the flier on Detroit's website, even--but that's no longer happening, per no less a source than the Fling themselves.

  October 12, 2009

• Slow Fall at the Fox Theater?

  Andrew Youssef​Since reopening this past May with a show from Gogol Bordello, the Fox Theater in downtown Pomona has continually impressed by netting top-flight shows: Wilco, the Flaming Lips, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Band of Horses, Girl Talk, Ween, Cake, Marilyn Manson. After tonight's Paramore (pictured on August 1 opening up for No Doubt at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine) show, though, they've got...not a lot.

  September 29, 2009

• Tough Choice: Yeah Yeah Yeahs vs. The Killers

  ​It's battle of the sold-out shows! Two of the genuine biggest artists in rock and/or roll are playing in our coverage area tonight, and tickets to both shows are more scarce than people saying nice thing about last night's premiere of The Jay Leno Show.

  September 15, 2009