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| | The New Yorker: The Critics: Musical Events |
 | | In July of 2004, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, a rock trio from New York City, opened for Devo, the new-wave group, in a show at the band shell in Central Park. |
 | | The Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ 2003 début album, “Fever to Tell,” had gone gold, a considerable achievement for a noisy and idiosyncratic band that lacks a bass player and has a sound that is sometimes thin and spiky. |
 | | Zinner, who played in a duo with Karen O before they formed the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, is fine-featured and rail thin, with a nest of fl hair and a talent for writing elegant, howling guitar motifs that often echo, but never overwhelm, her singing. |
| www.newyorker.com /critics/music/articles/060213crmu_music (1249 words) |
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