Dave Grohl and Greg Kurstin have been joined by Karen O for a rendition of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ 2009 observe, “Heads Will Roll.”
You’ll be able to view footage of the efficiency, a part of Grohl’s annual Hanukkah Periods collection, beneath.
Grohl, who isn’t Jewish, first launched the collection in 2020 along with his collaborator and producer Kurstin, who’s Jewish. They have been releasing eight cowl songs by Jewish artists, one for every day of the vacation. However as they identified on this occasion: “Depart it to us to get the one non-Jewish member of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs to Hanukkah-ize one in every of their signature songs.”
Earlier this month, Grohl and an organization of musical company (together with O, Pink, Beck, Tenacious D and extra) carried out a secret present in Los Angeles, the primary time Grohl has performed the collection for an in-person viewers. 9 songs have been recorded, together with Blood, Sweat & Tears’ “Spinning Wheel,” Rush’s “The Spirit of Radio” and 10cc’s “The Issues We Do for Love,” amongst others.
O’s Yeah Yeah Yeahs bandmate Brian Chase was raised in a Reform Jewish family. He typically heard conventional Jewish music rising up, however was concerned with a wide range of genres and bands – together with Grohl’s. “After I was child, I might be enjoying Nirvana covers at evening and the following day be a part of a jazz recital,” Chase informed The Jerusalem Publish in 2009. “I used to be into many alternative worlds.”
Chase met fellow pupil O within the late ’90s at Oberlin School in Ohio, the place Chase was learning jazz on the faculty’s conservatory. Later, when O transferred to New York College, she met guitarist Nick Zinner at an area bar, and the trio finally shaped the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Their self-titled debut EP arrived in 2001.
Eight years later, “Heads Will Roll” was launched because the second single from their third studio album, It is Blitz! The album debuted at No. 32 on the Billboard 200 and was nominated for Finest Various Music Album on the 2010 Grammy Awards. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ most up-to-date album, September’s Cool It Down, additionally earned a Grammy nomination for Finest Various Music Album.
“Through the pandemic, I used to be struck by the worry that I could by no means get on stage once more or be on the highway with my band – who in some ways are my household,” O informed Haaretz in June, because the Yeah Yeah Yeahs launched a brand new tour. “However we’re again enjoying. … I am grateful for it on the deepest potential stage.”
Kurstin x Grohl with Karen O – ‘Heads Will Roll’
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