Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Spunk Records goes out on a high: ‘Like a mixtape from your coolest friend’

After 25 years and almost 700 albums, the tastemaker who brought Belle and Sebastian and Arcade Fire to Australia are shutting up shop

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

28, May, 2024 @3:00 PM

I’m only seeing bands I loved when I was 14. Am I in a musical rut – or is this growing up? | Sinéad Stubbins

I used to be devoted to discovering new music. Now my gig-going is mostly driven by nostalgia – and I’m not alone

Sinéad Stubbins

05, Dec, 2023 @2:00 PM

Meet Me in the Bathroom review – pouting pomp from New York’s indie rockers

Unsentimental documentary looks back at 00s bands from the Strokes to Yeah Yeah Yeahs in the context of 9/11 and upheavals in the music industry

Peter Bradshaw

09, Mar, 2023 @11:00 AM

‘It was nuts what we got away with’: remembering the 00s UK indie explosion

As the film Meet Me in the Bathroom relives the glory days of the Strokes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs, fans and musicians recall the sweat, swagger and skinny jeans that made the British scene they inspired even wilder

Daniel Dylan Wray

03, Mar, 2023 @8:00 AM

The 20 best songs of 2022

Alongside landmark records from Kendrick and Beyoncé, the year saw standout tracks from Steve Lacy, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and more

Safi Bugel, Shaad D'Souza and Laura Snapes

05, Dec, 2022 @6:00 AM

The 100 greatest BBC music performances – ranked!

As the Beeb celebrates its centenary, we take a look at its most memorable pop moments, from the birth of grime to the first sightings of Bob Dylan and Bob Marley, plus TOTP goes Madchester and countless classic Peel sessions

Guardian music

06, Oct, 2022 @12:12 PM

Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O: ‘The one thing I hold in sacred regard is rockers’ hairstyles’

The lead singer of the US indie rockers on gaining humility in her 40s, her signature bowl haircut and the benefits of living in Los Angeles rather than New York

Tim Lewis

02, Oct, 2022 @8:30 AM

Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Cool It Down review – white-hot tracks crackle and seethe

Karen O is more incisive than ever on the band’s first album since 2013, which fluctuates between burning intensity and awestruck love

Shaad D'Souza

30, Sep, 2022 @7:30 AM

‘All is not lost!’ Yeah Yeah Yeahs return with riffs, risks and radical optimism

The darlings of 00s indie sleaze shook jaded audiences into life with their raucous rock’n’roll. Twenty years later, facing ecological catastrophe and middle age, can they do it again?

Hermione Hoby

03, Jun, 2022 @5:00 AM

The 100 best albums of the 21st century

We polled 45 music writers to rank the definitive LPs of the 21st century so far. Read our countdown of passionate pop, electrifying rock and anthemic rap – and see if you agree

Ben Beaumont-Thomas (1-50); Laura Snapes and April Curtin (51-100)

13, Sep, 2019 @8:00 AM