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YEAH YEAH YEAHS PERFORM AT THE GREEK THEATRE IN LOS ANGELES ON SEPTEMBER 17TH BE SURE TO CATCH THEM THE NIGHT BEFORE WHEN THE BAND STOPS BY THE TONIGHT SHOW SEPTEMBER 16TH

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YEAH YEAH YEAHS PERFORM AT THE GREEK THEATRE IN LOS ANGELES ON SEPTEMBER 17TH BE SURE TO CATCH THEM THE NIGHT BEFORE WHEN THE BAND STOPS BY THE TONIGHT SHOW SEPTEMBER 16TH

(New York, NY) New York power trio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs will be performing at the Greek on Thursday, September 17 at 8 PM. Tickets go on sale Saturday, July 25 at 10 AM.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs formed in Brooklyn in 2000 consisting of members Nick Zinner (guitar), Brian Chase (drums) and Karen O. (vocals). They released their first full-length album, Fever to Tell in 2003 and the buzz began for the band. Fever to Tell was simultaneously filthy, infectious, sloppy and brilliant. You could dance to it, and you could probably die to it. The single “Maps” was a smash hit and nominated for a Grammy.

It’s Blitz, the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s latest release, signals both a glance backward and a step forward for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Zinner’s vintage Arp–the same model used on records by The Cars, Joy Division, and Kraftwerk–contributes atmospheric washes (”Skeletons”), disco wiggles (”Dance till you’re dead!” Karen sings on “Heads Will Roll”), and New Wave melodrama (”Soft Shock”). The first single, “Zero,” combines all these elements to create a dance-floor anthem that sings directly to the listener.

On stage, this group of three works together as a single organism, but each member maintains their own personality and contributes their own strengths. Brian Chase’s drumming couldn’t be tighter or more precise. Nick Zinner’s guitar pushes back–hard–against Chase’s formalism, grounding the group in rock and roll at its ballsiest, dirtiest and maximum shredding. His soaring, sometimes grinding lines are wires connecting Chase’s drums to the psychologically kaleidoscopic vocals of Karen O, who, as the New Yorker has noted, would have been a success “…had she appeared with nothing more than a microphone and a pair of maracas.” Time Out New York said of a recent YYY’s show, “During the latter, O shoved the mic in her mouth and bent over backwards, shoulders hitting the floor, screaming her throat out. All that back-to-back with adorable synth-pop hits from It’s Blitz!”

Don’t miss the band perform on The Tonight Show w/ Conan O’Brien September 16th! Be sure to check out the wild antics of Karen O. when the Yeah Yeah Yeahs hit the Greek Theatre stage on September 17!