Oh, man. So, we’ve joked about it before, but, via Stereogum, who snagged it from Gawker, who probably got it from some bodega, somewhere (doesn’t everything originating in New York begin life in some bodega, somewhere?):
Yeah, um…granted, the haircuts may be the….ok, they aren’t. Granted, there’s two dudes and a…but, um, didn’t whats-his-bass join YYYs for Show Your Bones? Aw, hell with it-it’s the MisShapes.
Of all the bands in the world to misTake, NY Daily News picks the one with talent (and no, I don’t mean the one that had the picture printed).
At the very least, though, this gives me an excuse to talk about the great new EP the Yeah Yeah Yeahs just unleashed, Is Is.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Rockers To Swallow
This has long been one of my favorite unavailable YYYs bee-sides, and, contrary to popular logic, I do still want it now that I can have it. The band rides their Bow Wow Wow influence like a fucking wave in this (I dare you to peg that guitar riff on any other band), as Karen bridges the gap between her Show Yr Bones plaintive self-expression and the cut-and-clutter of Fever To Tell, doing her “middle finger to the media” thing and daring them to tell her “what rockers to swallow” or “what knockers to bite”.
A lost Show Your Bones moment, and what I held up as proof to the Bones naysayers that the YYYs hadn’t traded in/out of their raw, thrashing skin. I can only assume it’s not on Is Is because it’d mess with the cohesive flow of the EP, but it belongs, tacked at the end, as a raging take through the band’s stomping force.
the misshapes are a dj trio, not a band.