Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Music highlights of 2009

7 Jan 2010

Best bit of something for nothing When Spotify let UK users sign up for free this February, the floodgates were open for hours of random music searches. (Beatles, Fugazi, Metallica, no; Battles, Can, Phantom Band, yes) Non-stop, customised radio – and…

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4 Dec 2009

Karen O and her boys are back again. Since the last time they were in Scotland (which, excepting the odd T In The Park slot, was two and a half years ago), they’ve released the ‘Is Is’ EP, and the It’s Blitz! album. Karen’s also just finished working…

Best of a decade: Music

2 Dec 2009

Arcade Fire – Funeral, The Knife – Silent Shout, Radiohead – Kid A, Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago, The White Stripes – White Blood Cells, Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand, Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion, Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever To…

Hear this! - Upcoming gigs and albums Autumn 2009

10 Sep 2009

SEPTEMBER 14 Sep Jay-Z The Blueprint 3 After ‘retirement’, Glastonbury and gigs converting Coldplay fans to the joys of rap music, his masterful album trilogy is now complete. 14 Sep Muse The Resistance The band’s fifth album, it’s tinged…

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

10 Sep 2009

The formidable front lady Karen O along with guitarist Steve Zinner and drummer Brian Chase are on the road again in the UK, bringing with them some of their enviable creative spirit and musical passion. Now onto their third album, the band have built a…

T In The Park – Friday

13 Jul 2009

Chris Cope reviews the acts making a big splash at the first night of T.

New gigs announced, 7 July - Yeah Yeah Yeahs, La Roux, Richard Hawley and more

7 Jul 2009

New York trio Yeah Yeah Yeahs have announced a date in Scotland at the beginning of December in support of their recently-released, critically-acclaimed third album It's Blitz! Karen O and team play the O2 Academy, Glasgow, Fri 4 Dec. Tickets go on sale…

T in the Park: Soundtrack to the weekend

25 Jun 2009

Friday The whole festival starts in considerable style with The Maccabees and ‘No Kind Words’ before shifting in gloriously mental fashion with ‘Roulette Dares’ by The Mars Volta so sing along now … ‘Exoskeleton, junction at the railroad delayed!…

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It’s Blitz!

2 Apr 2009

Show Your Bones almost broke them, but if any band could survive their self-professed darkest period and come back all cylinders firing it’s the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Snooty types have always been quick to pooh-pooh the art rock trio’s muso credibility…

Further T in the Park 2009 tickets released

5 Mar 2009

T in the Park organisers will be releasing further tickets for the music festival. The tickets will go on sale tomorrow morning, Friday 6th March at 10am and will be on sale via Ticketmaster on 08444 999 990 and also online at www.ticketmaster.co.uk

Further additions to T in the Park 2009 line up

25 Feb 2009

The Streets, Florence and The Machine, Ladyhawke and Foals have been announced as further additions to the bill of T In The Park, which takes place on Fri 10, Sat 11 and Sun 12 July 2009 in Balado, with other headliners including Kings of Leon on…

Singles & Downloads

Records

16 Jul 2007

SINGLES & DOWNLOADS (Image: The Heavy) I declare it the Summer of Dross! Kicking off the half-arsed festival-promoting releases is Mika ’s ‘Big Girl’ (Casablanca, 1 STAR), which flaps along like Scissor Sisters devoid of the camp charm and…