The Modern Age

Tired of just seeing Yeah Yeah Yeahs members anonymously milling about at various events in the city, but miss the good ol’ fashion feel of Karen O spitting beer on you from the front of the stage? Check out Karen’s new side project, Native Korean Rock, this Monday in one of two shows at Union [...]

Spike Jonze’s ex-girlfriend, Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs will be writing nearly the entire soundtrack of his upcoming film adaption of Where the Wild Things Are, according to The Playlist via NYMag.com.

While we were standing outside the Morrison Hotel, the Backseat Blogger thought that he saw Julian Casablancas walking by. (I have my doubts.) I didn’t get a good look, my back was toward the sidewalk, so I can’t confirm or deny, but it made me get a hankering for some Strokes and all things NYC [...]

This Saturday, Jason Friedman (The Boggs) and Aurelio Valleare (Calla) are set to perform at the closing show of “Set In Concrete,” a art show which is displaying the work of a number of musicians. (Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, Lizzie Bougatsos of Gang Gang Dance, and Nick Zinner of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, to name [...]

The beauty of the internet is that you don’t have to actually go to events to know all about them or pretend like you’ve been there. Check out these awesome photos taken by Alix McAlpine and MyBlueWristband from the video shoot that occurred last night at Glasslands in Brooklyn for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
Karen was [...]

Ok, so here it goes. I’ve put on my armor. I’m ready for your biggest and best pot shots…
The point of this list is to single out the albums *I* enjoyed the most this year–this is not a list of what is cool in any way possible. It’s not an indication of what was the [...]

According to her blog post on Dazed Digital (a new website from the peeps at Dazed and Confused magazine), Karen O has taken to championing the all-female Austin, TX quartet, Finally Punk since she is “fond of kids without balls but spines–girls”.
Check out their cover of Nirvana’s “Negative Creep” on their MySpaz.
Watch their video [...]

It’s official. Mike and I are commandeering this site. We are taking this site back to its roots of rock and roll and brit-pop and away from the pop stylings of such individuals as Justin Timberlake. From now on this site is about Lily Allen and other cute girls with British accents. We kid, we [...]

…and I won’t be there. So not fair! That venue is amazing and for those of you who know me, you know why it’s particularly sad. God, you’re not funny.
Other artists include Kanye West and Goldfrapp.
But you can win a chance to attend the event over at the Hennessy web site.
Link from BV and Bao.

Got a DV tape recorder, a white background, and a love of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs? Then you could be featured in their video for “Cheated Hearts”:
WE NEED YOU! OUR FANS to be US… the YEAH YEAH YEAHS.
We want to see what you would do if you were playing us in our video [...]