Yeah Yeah Yeahs -- Mosquito

'Sacrilege' is great. High hopes for this new album. Has it leaked?

david pajo is in the band now!!! woah!

http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2013/03/the-25-best-acts-we-caught-at-sxsw-2013.html

David Pajo is like the Vinny Testaverde of indie rock.

DJP AND CAD!!!!!

HOUSE OF BLUES MAY 12TH

WHO IS IN?

OK, I just got three for Kevin, Tina, and I through their website. You go do the same. Now!! :D

$37 (inc. booking fee)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmRI3Ew4BvA

$37 (inc. booking fee)

Each?!?! Jesus

Yeah, each.

So D and S since I just bought three if you guys wanna go you gotta get your own but it shouldn't be a prob since it's still only pre-sale.

I am buying a ticket to this even if I don't know if I can go; we're supposed to be at an afternoon party that day, but J is coming late because of a production of Hairspray she's doing in Hyde Park, so maybe I just hang around until she shows up and then head in from Dorchester to continue drinking and partying

so if this is pre-sale does that mean all the floor tickets will be gone by the time it opens to the public? ;_;

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/magazine/get-yer-yeah-yeah-yeahs-out.html

New stream of "Under the Earth".

v dubby

wow i really love that. this album could be great. i was kinda prepared for it to be a clusterfuck after that album art was revealed

Yeah, now I'm even madder that all these REALLY GOOD songs are being covered up with that horrible sleeve.

Whole thing has leaked btw. Horrible quality though

i mean, i get that album art doesn't exactly mean what it used to in the downloading/streaming age, but it's almost like tell you I DARE YOU TO BUY THIS

Maybe they're hoping people will mistake it for some Fat Wreck Chords or Punk-o-Rama cd and buy it.

personally it sounded like an abject mess to me

the album i mean

The deluxe edition has a slightly different cover which looks a little better.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mosquito-Yeah-Yeahs/dp/B00B10X9BK/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1364597595&sr=1-1

no that is still terrible

Not sure what to think of this album. A lot of the songs kind of passed me by which is unusual for them.

The last three songs are the highlights, Always in particular is incredible and one of the best things they've ever done.

Have they released a version of "Sacrilege" that isn't remixed by Foster The People yet?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/magazine/get-yer-yeah-yeah-yeahs-out.html?ref=music&_r=0

Big article in Sunday NY Times (lots of history of the group and descriptions of their personalities,not much about new album)

You’ve never met three more awkward rock stars. Chase is a consummate music nerd, a conservatory-trained jazz drummer who still plays in the city’s experimental scene. Zinner, who looks the part of a rock star, is a regular at bars and other bands’ shows but doesn’t say much. And Karen O is an exhibitionistic Boo Radley, a warped dervish onstage who disappears after the encore and is rarely seen out in real life. What they have in common is a hypersensitivity to the world that borders on pathological — a near parody of the artist’s temperament. It sounds like a miserable way to live.

The fall of 2000 felt like end times for rock ’n’ roll in New York City. On the radio it was all boy bands and Britney Spears, and there hadn’t been a vital rock scene since punk in the 1970s. But on a Sunday night at a tiny club in Lower Manhattan, something was happening.

man

so she dresses like JC Chasez for The NYT Magazine

well this was all quite underwhelming on one listen :/

yeah it's really not very good... "wedding song" is amazing tho

(idk if the "320kbps" version out there is actually HQ? it didn't sound very HQ)

didn't really notice anything partic amazing after "sacrilege" although the master tapes of whichever one has the rap on it need to be burned in a fire

lol james murphy produced that one

Musically, I like that one a lot. I can't even fathom why anyone thought it was a good idea to insert Dr. Octagon into it.

It's grown on me after a few listens but yeah it's a bit of a disappointment after It's Blitz. I really like Subway now but still it's all about the last three songs which are probably the most similar to the slower songs on the last album.

haven't followed them closely since the first album, but live in fall 2001 was my "oh, there's a future rock star" moment.

Ha ha I love that lex had to listen to dr.octagon

The appearance of Dr. Octagon kind of reinforces my initial impression of this as feeling like a low-key Karen O side project rather than a fully-formed YYYs album. Like, very little of it was actively bad but there's not much that stands out either.

I can't even fathom why anyone thought it was a good idea to insert Dr. Octagon into it.

It's probably what happens when your lead singer will collaborate with anything that's not nailed down and therefore presumably bumps into Dan The Automator on a regular basis.

maybe keith provided the dudes in the band with some of his professional escorts

Are rappers ever welcome on non-rap albums? Has anybody ever been happy to hear KRS-One/Q-Tip/Lil Wayne squeezed into an already busy song? Seems like one of those things bands keep trying even though it never works

Kool Thing and Anthrax/Public Enemy are about the only ones i really enjoy...

rappers can be pretty welcome on pop and dance albums

Yeah rappers on pop and R&B records are fine but that's usually because they've got the right kind of beat to work with. It sometimes works on dance albums but more often that not it's a bit clunky. Most post-2000 rock bands know to steer well clear of a guest rap verse because the results are nearly always terrible.

Didn't stop REM deciding it was a good idea for the second time, despite the world having spent the previous 15 years laughing at 'Radio Song'.

in fairness some of us were just laughing at KRS-One

what are u sayin
what are u playin
day after day after day after dayin
baby baby baby baby BA-BAY
MAN THAT STUFF IS DRIVIN ME CRA-ZAY

This is such an ugly album

Kind of reminds me of M.I.A.'s Maya a bit; a potentially interesting work suffocated by sketchy songs that try to mask their sketchiness with harsh production

The MAYA production BOOMED though. It sounded great in cars.

If it sounds like MAYA, I'm guessing I'll be horribly disappointed in it immediately, then spin it on a whim two years later and think "holy shit, this is pretty great!"

MAYA is really good

So has anyone really got into this album yet? I'm on my fifth listen and it's just not grabbing me enough. It's their first really patchy album, I think I really only rate four or five songs on here. I'm kinda bummed out about this.

I guess the only good part is at least I don't have to have that artwork in my collection now.