Bet You Didn’t Know : Yeah Yeah Yeahs

It’s getting closer to “Dimensions Love Garage 2013” ! There has been so many buzz about this annual event, and also the interesting names for the event. Ismaya Live has released cool names like Beni Modular and Ra Ra Riot as the addition. But, for now we want to enrich your knowledge about Yeah Yeah Yeahs. We will share the good stuffs about them that you might not know before!

1.The band’s name, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, was taken from modern New York City vernacular as in “whatever / ok”.

2.Karen O married Barnaby Clay in 2011 and Clay directed the video of Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ single “Zero”.

3.Yeah Yeah Yeahs is not the only band that Karen O work with, she once did a side project called Native Korean Rock (NKR). NKR tend to have more romantic songs than Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and some of the romantic songs in Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ album was influenced by couple of NKR’s tracks.

4. Before Brian Chase hop to Yeah Yeah Yeahs, he was a drummer for a country music band. And he is not the first drummer of Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

5. We all know that Nick Zinner (and Brian Chase) have been to Indonesia for couple of times. But do you know what is Nick Zinner’s favourite dish when he is in Indonesia? Bubur Kacang Ijo.

6.Are you surprised (in a good way) with Karen O’s new hair colour? Okay, it’s not only you who are surprised with it. Karen O has dyed her hair blond before when she was 20 and her mother hated that.

7.Yeah Yeah Yeahs almost made it to Jakarta in 2009, however it didn’t happen. But thankfully, Ismaya Live has granted our wish! Hell yeah!

 
8.There’s a funny yet stupid situation that happened to Nick Zinner when he was in Indonesia. Once he got thrown out of a brothel in here. Which city? That’s still a mistery.

 
9. The band became one of the first western rock acts to play China when they headlined the Modern Sky Festival in Beijing in 2007.

 
10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ new album “Mosquito” is one the toughest albums that the band have done. The album was worked in New York and Karen O stated that the process in making the fourth album is quite like they way how they worked “Fever To Tell” and their first demo.

After reading those ten fun facts, we hope you guys are ready to hit Love Garage 2013!  Let’s roll! (Alcander Alonzo)