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Moby Wait For Me, Album, Little Idiot Recordings, June 29 *** A decade on from the 10 million selling Play, the king of ad' endorsement has swapped the house beats of his last effort, Last Night, for a more sophisticated, and marketable, sound.

Laura Barton on why this year's Glastonbury bill illustrated just how many extraordinary female musicians currently lead popular music Glastonbury 2009 may have acquired a reputation for being the year of old geezer rock , but in truth this was a festival dominated by young female artists - from Little Boots to La Roux, via Florence and the ...

The Flaming Lips ' Embryonic , their upcoming double album, will feature guest appearances from MGMT and Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer Karen O . Embryonic still does not have a release date, but The Flaming Lips have said it will most likely come out in September.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs played a flamboyant afternoon show at Glastonbury today , during which they released a huge inflatable eyeball into the crowd.

From left, Brian Chase, Karen O and Nick Zinner put a pop gloss on a driving, danceable punk sound.

"There is no tape. There is no iPod. This is live music, y'all," said Ad-Rock after an instrument breakdown caused the Beastie Boys' climactic rendition of "Sabotage" to come crashing down on night two of Bonnaroo, and it's an apt enough phrase to describe a day that showcased the best of all possible sonic worlds.

The Brooklyn-based group TV on the Radio mixes post-punk, electronic, and other atmoshperic elements in such a creative way that it only makes sense that its core duo, vocalist Tunde Adebimpe and multi-instrumentalist/producer David Andrew Sitek, are both visual artists as well as musicians.

Photos by Erin Edgemon A near sellout crow of scantily clad and tattooed people from across generations waded through the mild and warm sun to party! They, as well as myself, started the first full day of the annual Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival easy as we got our bearings and finalized our schedule.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer Karen O didn't have to say much about the love affair that has blossomed between her edgy New York rock trio and the Border City that quietly embraced them as they made a new record here last year.

Back when they were shaking up the blogosphere with the swaggering sexual put-downs of "Bang," it would have been hard to imagine a Yeah Yeah Yeahs as ready to take on the mainstream as the Yeah Yeah Yeahs that rocked a sold-out crowd at Tempe's Marquee Theatre on Monday.

Karen O's charms are mysterious.A The Yeah Yeah Yeah's frontwoman can't sing, for one.

Finding the words to describe music can be tricky; the way we listen and process what we hear does not always translate directly into language.

Sound: After taking the blogosphere by storm with the angular art-punk sex rant "Bang" in the early 2000s, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs have switched things up with every album.

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are taking their new synth-infused sound to a whole new level of '80s' era awesome with their latest video.

A common concern with success is whether someone gets too big too quickly. In Yeah Yeah Yeahs' case, they went from a venue the size of the Riviera to the Aragon in a matter of weeks.

Photos by Amber Schadewald, click here for the slideshow . Everything I had ever heard and read about the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' live show and Karen O's presence as a frontwoman was absolutely, amazingly true.

Posted on May 31st, 2009 9:28 AM By Chris Riemenschneider For about a minute, after the initial amusement of seeing KarenA come out inA that swirly glowing mask, I wondered if this was finally going to be the first time the YYYs disappointed me.

Sarah Guild of the New Collisions says she grew up singing along to Pat Benatar and Blondie on the radio.

Lead singer Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs belts it out at the Lifestyle Communities Pavilion.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs / May 27, 2009 / Pontiac, Mich. Laura Leebove When Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs takes the stage, she wants all eyes on her -- including the enormous inflated one that loomed behind the band at its show in Pontiac, Mich.