Bloc Party haven’t released an LP since Hymns way back at the beginning of 2016, but they’re set to change that in 2022. The band will release their sixth album Alpha Games in April. It’s produced by Nick Launay and Adam Greenspan, a duo who’ve worked together on projects by Nick Cave, Arcade Fire, Yeah Ye...

One day in July of 2002, I woke up early and caught the first Chinatown bus from Baltimore to New York. At the time, I was working as a furniture salesman at a run-down ripoff discount store in East Baltimore, a job that I only managed to hold for another month or two. I’d worked Friday. I had to work Sunday. But today was Saturday, an...

Twenty years ago today, Yeah Yeah Yeahs played their first show. The gig went down at Mercury Lounge in New York, and as the band explains in a note on Facebook today, the bill was pretty stacked:…

Last month, Karen O got into the socially distant performance ring with a performance of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs deep cut "Our Time." She did that one alone, but now she's back with bandmate Nick Zinner for an isolated performance of their Show Your Bones track "Phenomena." "Party anywhere (closet) anytime (any day…

"It was like a daydream making that song"Karen O performs live with Yeah Yeah Yeahs, 2019Yeah Yeah Yeahs‘ Karen O has discussed her relationship with the band’s hit ‘Maps’, explaining that she remains “fascinated” by the song’s popularity. Read More: ‘Fever To Tell’ at 15:...