ARGH WHY CANT THIS BE LONGER GOOD LORD ARE WE EXCITED FOR THIS MOVIE

“And for like ten minutes she would just do these fucking amazing animal yelps and screams and growling and all this shit.”

Now it makes sense. Wayne was referring to Karen’s O’s magical mystery vocals in this new Lips song, “I Can Be A Frog” off their upcoming album, Embryonic.

At first NME’s headline on this thing made us pause a second. “Yeah Yeah Yeah’s Karen O to Soundtrack Anti-Fat Adverts” ends up coming across a little harsh. We get it. You’re skinny. No need to be snippy about it.

But then it turns out she’s just lending “All Is Love” (the same track soundtracking Where The Wild Things Are) to an ad campaign that’s hoping to fight youth obesity in our old U.S. of A. And we decided we can get behind that too. So check it out (on NME for now, and soon your very own TV) and leave the cream cheese off the bagel tomorrow morning or something.

From the Where The Wild Things Are soundtrack, Karen O and her band of Kids actually sound like ecstatic children running into the sunset on this first listen.

Listen: Karen O & The Kids – All Is Love

At about the time the Where The Wild Things Are trailer started dominating nerdier corners of the Web a few months back, we weren’t feeling all that much for the Arcade Fire anymore. The magic was gone. But when that newfangled, painfully evocative rendition of “Wake Up” popped up in said trailer, we flipped our flop and came running back. We cried, we longed to be kids again and perhaps more realistically, we wanted to see the movie as soon as possible. That day (October 16th) still feels light years away but the soundtrack for the film, a collaboration by Yeah Yeah Yeahs front lady Karen O and the Kids, a band of collaborators that includes Bradford Cox of Deerhunter, Aaron Hemphill of Liars and fellow Yeah Yeah Yeahs Brian Chase and Nick Zinner just to name a few, is set to be officially released just over two weeks earlier on September 29th. Put your ear up to the computer speakers during the below featurette to get an early taste. (via P4k)

The newest trailer for Spike Jonze’s Where The Wild Things Are features a sweet, lullaby-ish number by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ leading lady, a tune similar to one we heard in the recent Wild Things featurette. Check out the trailer above, and catch the film in its entirety in theaters October 16 with plenty of fully listenable Karen O music on the score. (Via The Playlist).

The Flaming Lips are releasing their 12th studio monstrosity later this year and according to a SPIN report, Embryonic features some extra-special guests: MGMT and Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Frontnut Coyne sent some sounds and ideas via e-mail and telephone and in what we’re sure was a flash of glittered genius, something gnarly was born. That something will be sandwiched somewhere amid the many layers of psychedelia Embryonic—a double album which Coyne claims is similar to the Lips’ masterstroke the Soft Bulletin—promises.

—Meryl Natow

“Skeletons” feels bold and anticipatory. When Karen O’s serene voice begins singing (“Love my name/ Love left dry/ Frost or flame/ Skeleton me”), it’s as if she’s preparing for an inevitable surge of energy. After the first verse, we’re introduced to a rapturous percussion that’s ready to explode, only to be brought right back down. Similar to “Maps” before it, “Skeletons” lingers in the area between expectation and release. Yet it does so perfectly, inhabiting a terrain that makes us vulnerable and unsure — Karen O’s sweet singing is our only guide, and she even seems unsure where we’re going. Her use of three-syllable poetic verse (with the exception of “skeleton / me”) only enhances this song’s mystique. It is exact and precise. As Pitchfork’s Ryan Dombal accurately pointed out, Karen O’s ambiguous syntax leaves meaning to the listener. Is she saying “Skeleton Me”, aka invisible, or “Skeleton: me”, aka both the same. Is she saying “love don’t go”, aka love is steadfast, or is she pleading “love, don’t go”? Whichever meaning you project, “Skeletons” is a perfect reintroduction to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Skeletons”

Last week we told you that Yeah Yeah Yeahs decided to push up the release date of their new album, It’s Blitz!, from its original April release to March 10, after the highly anticipated album leaked onto the internet. Now, the band has released its newest video, “Zero”, off of their upcoming record, and if Karen O’s sassy struts throughout the video can’t convince you to listen to the band’s new album, then we don’t know what will.

Teaming up with New York director, Barney Clay, the band created a captivating video for the new single, which follows the band’s lead singer as she gaits through dark alleys and city streets, climbing on cars and causing a lone ruckus throughout the city. According to Karen, the video’s strong visuals were vital to embracing the concept behind the song. “The visuals had to be well placed with the slow ecstatic building of the song,” Karen told Spinner.com. “It made sense that the visuals would take you on a journey and keep you on the move — no sitting still for too long in the city landscape of bright lights, dark alleys and glittering streets.”

The band’s singer explained that the idea behind “Zero” is to revel in being you. “It’s the underdogs, the rebels, the outsiders that have always captivated me growing up so I decided why not flaunt that side of myself in the video.” And flaunt it she did, as the female singer created an empowering persona that perfectly accompanied the strong vocals sung on the new track.
If “Zero” is a true testament to what the rest of what It’s Blitz! sounds like, we can confidently say, we’re highly awaiting what the Yeah Yeah Yeahs have in store for us on the March 10 release of the new album.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Zero”

The first official single off of It’s Blitz! is a dance-inspired number that has Karen O telling us to “get our leather on.” As the Yeah Yeah Yeahs front woman told Rolling Stone, the new record is “Less angst and more positivity, man!” Just the cure for the recession doldrums.

Also unveiled with the music is the artwork for the single (above) as well as the full track listing (below) of the April 14 release. We have yet to form an opinion besides the Yeah Yeah Yeahs image has definitely not taken a hit during their time off. Only time will tell if it has affected their songwriting beyond a super-produced dance track that highlights very little of Nick or Brian. Until then, check out “Zero” and let’s all hold our collective breaths before we get all Animal Collective with this record.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Zero”

It’s Blitz! track listing
01. Zero (featuring Eric Biondo on trumpet, Stuart Bogie on saxophone)
02. Heads Will Roll
03. Soft Shock
04. Skeletons
05. Dull Life
06. Shame and Fortune
07. Runaway (featuring Jane Scarpantoni on cello, Greg Kurstin on piano)
08. Dragon Queen (featuring Tunde Adebimpe on vocals, Stuart Bogie on saxophone, Kyp Malone on tambourine)
09. Hysteric (featuring Eric Biondo on trumpet, Stuart Bogie on saxophone)
10. Little Shadow (featuring Imaad Wasif on guitar)