If you were ever a child, there’s only one thing you are waiting for this year: Where the Wild Things Are.
Since author Maurice Sendak okayed the plans for the first feature film of his beloved children’s picture book, the world has been waiting with bated breath for a sneak peek. A trailer has been circulating all summer, but just last week Karen O (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) revealed details for her original score and hand-picked soundtrack.
Dubbing her and her musical posse Karen O and the Kids, the soundtrack is brimming with all-star guests. For readability’s sake, here’s a list:
- Brian Chase and Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
- Tristan Bechet (Services)
- Bradford Cox (Deerhunter)
- Dean Fertita (Queens of the Stone Age, The Dead Weather)
- Aaron Hemphill (Liars)
- Greg Kurstin (The Bird and the Bee)
- Jack Lawrence (The Dead Weather, The Raconteurs, The Greenhornes)
- Oscar Michel (Gris Gris)
- Imaad Wasif (New Folk Implosion, Alaska)
- An untrained children’s choir
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How many people does it take to shut down a New York City block and cause a riot? Two, provided they are armed with a synthesizer, drum machine and a discography under the guise of Mstrkrft.
It’s true, Toronto’s electro-house darlings were slated to play a club in NYC two weeks ago and oversold the venue so much that more than 2,000 hipsters were stuck in line outside. But the hype surrounding the DJ duo drove the mob into frenzy, inciting a riot that was eventually quelled by the NYPD itself.
“It was a pretty proud moment that we double-sold the club and had a street in New York City closed down, even if just for a few hours,” Jesse Keeler, one half of Mstrkrft, tells andPOP. “The fact that that’s happening … that takes a long time to build.”
Mstrkrft was born in Toronto in 2005, storming clubs and parties with their take on the burgeoning electro-house trend. After dominating the GTA scene, the duo made up of Keeler and Alex Puodziukas (otherwise known as Al-P) stepped up their game.
First came the singles “Easy Love” and “Work on You” before an official LP, “The Looks,” debuted in July 2006. Then came the tours: Canada, North America, the world.
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs Posted on January 11th, 2006 by
Eva Lam
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs will release their second Interscope album, ?Show Your Bones,? on March 28, reports Billboard.
According to a label spokesperson, the first single ?Gold Lion? will be commercially released a week earlier in the United Kingdom.
The album, the follow-up to 2003?s ?Fever To Tell,? was produced by Squeak E Clean and mixed by rock veteran Alan Moulder.
“‘Show Your Bones’ is what happens when you put your finger in a light socket,” singer Karen O says of the album name, according to Billboard. “Maybe there is some of that electric current flowing through the tracks of our album illuminating us from the inside out for you to laugh at and cry to or fry to. Or not.”
Billboard.com further reports that the band is planning a small-club tour of North America in February in advance of “Show Your Bones.”
The group is also scheduled to play the U.K.’s All Tomorrow’s Parties festival on May 14, along with their own handpicked roster of acts, including TV On The Radio, Oneida, Liars, Blood Brothers and Ex Models.
