The trio's lo-fi first EP sounds like it was recorded in a tenement bathroom and provides the perfect backdrop for Karen O's arsenal of onstage antics (gargling microphones, spitting beer, grinning madly). Yeah Yeah Yeahs opens with the serrated shuffle of "Bang," featuring the triple p... 

 The trio's lo-fi first EP sounds like it was recorded in a tenement bathroom and provides the perfect backdrop for Karen O's arsenal of onstage antics (gargling microphones, spitting beer, grinning madly). Yeah Yeah Yeahs opens with the serrated shuffle of "Bang," featuring the triple p... 

 Fever to Tell, the band's first full-length and major-label debut, maintains the gritty urgency of their first EPs while growing their sound from a garage-y firebomb into a glitter-punk assault. "Date With the Night" is a seductive bit of deconstructed disco that rides drummer Brian Chase�... 

 Fever to Tell, the band's first full-length and major-label debut, maintains the gritty urgency of their first EPs while growing their sound from a garage-y firebomb into a glitter-punk assault. "Date With the Night" is a seductive bit of deconstructed disco that rides drummer Brian Chase�... 

 Three years later, Yeah Yeah Yeahs brought in coproducer Sam Spiegel, a.k.a. Squeak E. Clean, for Show Your Bones, a more refined album that welcomes increasingly textured sounds and shifting tempos. Lyrically, the band betrays its growing pains: First single "Gold Lion" is a spiky acoustic march... 

 Three years later, Yeah Yeah Yeahs brought in coproducer Sam Spiegel, a.k.a. Squeak E. Clean, for Show Your Bones, a more refined album that welcomes increasingly textured sounds and shifting tempos. Lyrically, the band betrays its growing pains: First single "Gold Lion" is a spiky acoustic march... 

 Before the release of their third disc, Yeah Yeah Yeahs turned out an EP of stellar tracks penned during tours for Fever to Tell. Is Is is short but searing, packing its 17 minutes with banshee bellows ("Rockers to Swallow"), grimy riffs ("Down Boy"), sweaty sexuality ("Kiss Kiss"), eerie drones ... 

 Before the release of their third disc, Yeah Yeah Yeahs turned out an EP of stellar tracks penned during tours for Fever to Tell. Is Is is short but searing, packing its 17 minutes with banshee bellows ("Rockers to Swallow"), grimy riffs ("Down Boy"), sweaty sexuality ("Kiss Kiss"), eerie drones ... 

 The stripped-back Is Is proved to be a glance in the rearview mirror, however: It's Blitz! delivers the trio's most ambitious sonic palate yet and provides their first bona fide dance-floor stunner, "Zero," which finds Karen O holding her own against pulsing synths and roiling guitar l... 

 The stripped-back Is Is proved to be a glance in the rearview mirror, however: It's Blitz! delivers the trio's most ambitious sonic palate yet and provides their first bona fide dance-floor stunner, "Zero," which finds Karen O holding her own against pulsing synths and roiling guitar l...