Nick Zinner Speaks About YYYs Album, Other Projects

In an interview with Pitchfork, Zinner said the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' second album is well on its way to completion, though he was tantalizingly vague on the details. "We're pretty much done," he said. "We're done recording, basically. I went to London with half of the mixes. I'm going to go back in a couple of weeks to finish it up. Then it's just a matter of picking and choosing, and all the other things you have to think about when putting out a record, which I don't really want to think about right now." Zinner said the record should be on store shelves "definitely early next year."

Karen O told us in June that the band is going for a sound that's a departure from their debut, 2003's raucous, rawkin' Fever to Tell. "There's aspects of my persona-- of Karen O-- that I'm definitely adverse to at this point," she said.

Zinner's other record, with Head Wound City, will be out much sooner, namely November 8, on Three One G. The band, which made its live debut September 22, features Zinner alongside Justin Pearson and Gabe Serbian of The Locust and Cody Votolato and Jordan Blilie of the Blood Brothers. In typical Three One G fashion, their self-titled debut EP speeds by with seven songs in nine minutes, 41 seconds. "It's kind of like if Alien and Predator started a band instead of fighting each other," Blilie says on the Three One G website. Peep this killer tracklist:

01 Radical Friends
02 I'm a Taxidermist-- I'll Stuff Anything
03 Prick Class
04 Street College
05 New Soak for an Empty Pocket
06 Thrash Zoo
07 Michael J. Fux Feat. Gnarles in Charge

Zinner's third book of photography, I Hope You Are All Happy Now was released last month. The book contains 500 photographs (edited down from several thousand taken over the last four years) with an introduction by director Jim Jarmusch and comedian/indie rock groupie David Cross. While the photographs were taken during the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' rise from back-of-the-bar band to Grammy nominees, Zinner said he hopes they don't directly reference his experiences in the trio: "The number one criteria is that each image would be able to stand alone as a photograph, not necessarily a document of something. Not something that references a time or specific place. Something that you could take out of context and put any meaning to it," he said. "It's what I look for in any photograph. I didn't want it to be a Yeah Yeah Yeahs book. I wanted it to be a photo art book as opposed to a tour diary--because they're kind of played out."

* Pitchfork Review: Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Fever to Tell
* Pitchfork News: Shins, Sleater-Kinney, YYYs to Curate ATP 2006
* Pitchfork News: Yeah Yeah Yeahs to Reinvent Themselves on Next LP

Yeah Yeah Yeahs: http://www.yeahyeahyeahs.com/
I Hope You Are All Happy Now: http://www.ihopeyouareallhappynow.com/
Three One G: http://www.threeoneg.com/