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Ready for this one? Okie doke: World, meet Native Korean Rock & The Fishnets. Native Korean Whatsit and the Whosits? Yes, Native Korean Rock & The Fishnets, a little extracurricular venture a certain Karen O has been cooking up and will soon present to the people.

"Native Korean Rock is a side project of mine," writes Karen O on the Yeah Yeah Yeahs website [via Idolator], "comprised of a body of love songs written over the last two years, to be performed with a motley crew of NYC natives. Expect high drama, high stakes in two intimate performances."

Those two intimate performances both go down July 21 at Union Pool in Brooklyn. No word just yet who will make up the aforementioned "motley crew", but Karen does have some preemptive answers to a couple other burning questions:

"Does Native Korean Rock have anything to do with Yeah Yeah Yeahs? NO

"Are these the leaked demos of years ago? NO"

Karen isn't so clear on the difference (if there is one) between just Native Korean Rock, and Native Korean Rock & The Fishnets; astute noticers of things will notice both names employed in various places. But anyway, there you have it. Sample some musical offerings from Karen's new thing via the MySpace link below.

As for Yeah Yeah Yeahs, last we heard they were dangling LP3 carrots in front of us. Meanwhile, some of Nick Zinner's photography is presently on display in Brussels, Belgium as part of a previously mentioned exhibit at the city's Palais des Beaux Arts entitled "It's Not Only Rock'n'Roll, Baby!" The show, which also features pieces from Brian Eno, Patti Smith, Antony, Suicide's Alan Vega, and Devendra Banhart, runs through September 14. Oh, and Zinner also guests on The Time of the Assassins, the debut offering from Nickel Eye, aka Strokes bassist Nikolai Fraiture.