I am so late to discover the “Yeah Yeah Yeahs,” that I can hear many of you having a good belly laugh…hahahahaha. After all, they just released their 3rd studio album It’s Blitz! 31 March. It took Momo 1.5 decades to discover - I love (2-1) old school rap…rappas.

Yes, by the time I saw them on the Coachella line up, they were already booked on Saturday Night Live. Better late than never. I have taken my own advice and created a station on Pandora to get familiar. So far so good.

I am still digging for a song that really caught my ear last week. No, I can’t remember the name of the tune or even that much about it, I just liked it, so Pandora plays on and I wait to hear “the song.”

Meanwhile, based on what I had read, I expected a more raw sound out of the new album, “It’s Blitz” has a refined sound that can demonstrate growth by an artist, but growth for the sake of growth can be painful. I remember listening to new work, by beloved artists with an anticipation that sounded something like this in my head…”stretch, please don’t sound exactly like the last offering…and I hope I recognize the music as distinctly yours!” I lost interest in bands along the way because they ventured way too far from the mark I hoped they would hit. REM and Talk Talk are two of these.

“It’s Blitz” has more of an electronic flavor but does not fall far from the Yeahs tree. They are a band I look forward to seeing live!

Speaking of live…I pulled the following from a review of Coachella in the Rolling Stone Blog Rock & Roll Daily:

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs began with a smoldering “Runaway,” from the just-released It’s Blitz!, as Karen O vogued across the stage in a shimmering dress draped in golden discs. The band sparked up a dramatic “Dull Life,” while presided over by a giant inflatable eyeball, swaying gently in the late-afternoon desert air. Nick Zinner occasionally worked a small keyboard but otherwise stayed behind his electric guitar, putting it down only to pick up another. There’s a strong dance-floor element to much of the new YYY’s album, particularly within the bouncy keyboards and disco beat of “Heads Will Roll,” but Zinner’s role as master of raw, post-punk riffs was largely unchanged live. They did a straight-ahead psychobilly reading of the Cramps’ “Human Fly,” either as tribute to that classic punk act’s late frontman, the endlessly seething Lux Interior, or the fly tattoo on Karen O’s left shoulder. The YYY’s own “Maps” remained a passionate modern torch song, with sparks of electric guitar and feedback, ending with Karen O putting the mike to her heart, eyes closed.

Tony Momo - Late but not alone!

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