Yeah Yeah Yeahs, “Heads Will Roll” (A-Trak Remix) MP3
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
Feels strange to think of a time when Karen O’s slightly nasal snarl was anything but ubiquitous considering she’s now got her hands in a million different projects at any given moment. FADER blogger/World Famous DJ A-Trak’s remix of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs‘ “Heads Will Roll” (from last March’s It’s Blitz), does its part to keep her in the spotlight (as if the Where the Wild Things Are soundtrack, performing with the YYYs, and just being Karen O aren’t enough), turning the original into a full blast club track. Especially fitting for a band that has moved further away from guitars with each successive album.
Download: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, “Heads Will Roll” (A-Trak remix) (via Discobelle)
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posted on Oct 19, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags A-Trak, electronic/dance, Karen O, rock, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Make a Crazy Short Film
“A scientist, a philosopher, and a black widow” are the roles portrayed by the respective YYYs in “SNAKESWEAT,” a fucking sweet short film directed by Karen O co-conspirator Barney Clay. This black-and-white gothy fantasia evokes everyone from Fellini, Jodorowsky, Herzog, Bela Tarr, Kenneth Anger and the Cursed Tape from The Ring with its surrealist images and creepy German narrator, and will make you wish you could spend your life conceiving of and making extremely brooding, dark, conceptual short films about figuring shit out and/ or “losing your mind to recover purity of truth” (which is what this is apparently about). More please.
Video: Tron Legacy Official Trailer + New Daft Punk
- story Peter Macia
When the first Tron came out in 1982, Japanese toy manufacturer TOMY released the action figures and Lightcycles to go along with it, the latter coming with a zip cord that if pulled out hard enough could send the cycles hurtling toward dogs and feet with horrifying velocity. The Tron Legacy official HD trailer, which is almost exclusively focused on the cycles, was released late last week and only the corporate overlords at Disney know what the associated licensing extravaganza will bring to kids (dudes over 30) the world over, but we imagine it will be not quite as lo-fi, probably involving some kind of Wii deprivation suit that immerses kids (dudes) fully into the mainframe. Regardless, the trailer has been on the internet in full blur since last year’s Comic-Con, so Disney had to up their game to excite the attendees at this year’s installment, which wrapped up yesterday in San Diego. They did so by funneling anxious people through a Tron-ish tunnel to a room housing a full-size Lightcycle with, presumably, a song from Daft Punk’s soundtrack blasting. It’s hard to tell if the person in the front row starts freaking out because of the bike or the song, but it is pretty entertaining either way.
With much less fanfare and showmanship, a short behind-the-scenes video for Spike Jonze’s Where The Wild Things Are appeared this weekend as well and reveals a bit of that movie’s score composed by Karen O.
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posted on Jul 27, 2009 in ART+CULTURE VIDEO tags Daft Punk, electronic/dance, film, Karen O, Spike Jonze, Tron Legacy, Where the Wild Things Are, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Karen O is Still Awesome
- story Chioma Nnadi
Maybe it was the glare from Lady Gaga’s mirrored ballgown or the pyrotechnics on that boob flamethrower, but somehow Karen O’s stunning outfit at Glastonbury last weekend slipped though our fingers—until now. We’re guessing the costume is the work for her BFF, designer and costume creator Christian Joy, whose spring 2009 lookbook features bandana-wearing doggies, Fourth of July fireworks and dresses splashed with lobster print. Karen’s headdress of all-seeing hands actually makes us us want to spend the rest of the summer in a teepee on the roof.
Video: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, “Heads Will Roll”
- story THE FADER
Man, Michael Jackson looks like shit in this. (directed by Richard Ayoade via NME)
Karen O is Like Rad, Man
- story THE FADER
From last night on Late Night (video above)…
Dave: That’s good. I like that. Nice going. Boy, that’s just about right.
Paul: Karen O is like rad, man. Karen O is like rad, man. Karen O is like rad, man.
KAREN O IS LIKE RAD MAN RAD MAN RAD MAN RAD MAN. Dude, this is properly worded. Paul Schaffer: always on the ball. You know who else is on the ball? Erol Alkan. We know everyone is already on top of Animal Collective’s trippy remix of “Zero” and we’ll put it up below for good measure, but Erol melted “Zero” into like a really really hot chocolate sauce and is pouring it all over the mushy lump of ice cream that is our brains.
Stream: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, “Zero (Erol Alkan Rework)”
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posted on Apr 15, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Animal Collective, David Letterman, electronic/dance, Erol Alkan, Late Night, rock, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Video: Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Zero” on Jools Holland
- story THE FADER
We’re officially salty that Jools Holland didn’t make the Carole King/ Karen O collabo happen. We mean, that was the obvious move, right? Carole could have played the piano and crooned, with Karen providing interpretive screeches and yelps. Nick and Brian could’ve played maracas in the background. Candles would be lit. Arpeggios would be arpeggiated. It would have been brain-breaking. Instead, we get a pretty amazing performance of “Zero,” the song y’all love to love, and a typically transfixing outfit donned by the Divine Miss O. The dress is likely Christian Joy, but who makes that covetous studded leather jacket? We were thinking Balmain but we’re pretty sure it’s not Balmain, and also, Karen O doesn’t make it a habit of dressing up like a fashion editor at [insert non-American country here] Vogue. Karen! Get at us about your leather!
Audio: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, “Zero (Erol Alkan Remix)” [Snippet]
- story THE FADER
We don’t normally post snippets of remixes, but Alkan’s our boy and Karen O is our girl and this particular snippet of their musical coupling has us pretty zooted at the moment. The full track will be available for download on April 13th, but in the meantime listen to the minute of madness at the social networking links below. Or, if you’re in Paris this Friday, go see if he plays it during his FIVE HOUR SET at the Paris Social Club. Seriously, we can’t even sleep for five hours straight, that is ridiculous.
Stream: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, “Zero (Erol Alkan Remix)” [Snippet] on MySpace or Facebook
Video: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, “Zero”
- story THE FADER
Karen O tells Spinner, “It’s the underdogs, the rebels, the outsiders that have always captivated me growing up so I decided why not flaunt that side of myself in the video.” Um, because you’re a beautiful, adored rock star on a major label who has dated every moderately intelligent girl’s artsy fartsy crush? Can’t you just let us be the losers?
Stylee Fridays: Christian Joy’s “Visitors Must Be Amused”
- story THE FADER
Despite the somber tones that hung over our heads for most of fashion week, there were, thankfully, sporadic moments of instantaneous joy and extraordinariness. None more joyful and extraordinary than the exhibit by fashion and costume designer Christian Joy, “The Visitors Must Be Amused,” open at the AVA gallery in New York, running until March 9th. CJ created a gallery full of otherworldly “female beings,” from outer-galactic space suits to stealthy black widow second skins. She asked friends and family to write character profiles for her cast of fantastic ladies, and in turn they used the costumes to create an image of their own design — a sort of brief and arty game of telephone. Nick Zinner, for example, describes a shadowy parallel universe that his creature the black ghost inhabits. “Despite being Dead” he writes,”the Black Ghost is in fact a very special ghost, feeding off of laughter and children’s joy, so she is almost at odds with her own predicament.” Fun-having ghosts and sexy aliens are what fashion week should always be made of.
