The Yeah Yeah Yeahs have just announced a tour over the Summer of 2023 with support from The Faint and Perfume Genius. The band also decided to put out a new music video for “Blacktop.” The Yeah Yeah Yeahs will be back on the road starting on May 3rd in Washington, D.C., traveling through cities such as Atlanta, Houston, Chicago, London, Paris, and Berlin, on top of festivals Shaky Knees and Boston Calling.
The tickets for the tour will be on sale starting February 10th at 10:00 am local time through Ticketmaster. Meanwhile, the Blacktop music video was directed by David Black and shows lead singer Karen O performing with the help of low tech psychedelic effects.
Karen O said in a statement that, “‘Blacktop’ stuck out to me early on, the demo was very stripped down instrumentally and emotionally. It was a step towards what radical closeness feels like after a long separation, Each record has one of these diamonds in the rough that just feels like flying to me. It felt right to keep the video as stripped down and dare I say beautiful in its naïveté. David Black put us in front of his 70s analog video camera with the intention to pull stills for band shots. He had me sing to ‘Blacktop’ before I had even memorized the lyrics, I thought I knew the song by heart but it felt like an introduction, like meeting it for the first time. It wasn’t intended to end up as a video and as a return to the earliest visuals from the record it completes a circle, we’re so happy we have it, a simple layered performance for a deceptively simple song. We hope you enjoy.”
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