Yeasayer

Yeasayer

Infobox musical artist
Name = Yeasayer



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Background = group_or_band
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Origin = Brooklyn, NY, USA
Genre = Indie rock Experimental rock
Years_active = 2006 – Present
Label = We Are Free
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Current_members = Anand Wilder Chris Keating Ira Wolf Tuton Luke Fasano
Past_members =

Yeasayer (IPAEng|ˈjeɪˌseɪ.ɚ) is an experimental band based in Brooklyn, New York. Live performances include trippy, psychedelic visuals projected in the background.

The band members are Anand Wilder, Chris Keating, Ira Wolf Tuton, and Luke Fasano. They describe their music as "Middle Eastern-psych-snap-gospel".Fact|date=January 2008

The band first came to national attention after appearing at the SXSW festival in early 2007. [cite web | url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1555639/20070326/winehouse_amy.jhtml | title = Seven Bands from SXSW That Will Matter | date = 27 March 2007 | accessdate = 2007-10-29 | publisher = MTV.com]

Their first single consisted of the tracks "Sunrise" and "2080".

They were featured on episode 47 of XLR8R TV

Yeasayer toured with MGMT and Man Man during the spring of 2008 in the United States and will continue on to United Kingdom and Europe. [cite news|url=http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/47595-yeasayer-announce-big-2008-tour|title=Yeasayer Announce Big 2008 Tour|Last=Maher|first=Dave|publisher=Pitchfork|date=2007-12-12|accessdate=2008-01-08] They will also play at Hove Festival 2008. [ [http://www.hovefestivalen.no/Default.aspx?articleID=583 Hove Festival home page] ] . They performed at Lollapalooza 2008 (Chicago's Grant Park). They also appeared at Reading/Leeds Festival 2008 on the NME/BBC1 stage. Yeasayer performed at Pavallion on Roskilde Festival 2008. Yeasayer provided support to Beck on the European leg of his Modern Guilt tour in Summer 2008.

Yeasayer also performed a public, a cappella concert, a "Take Away Show", on a French metro in February, 2008, filmed by Vincent Moon of The Blogothèque. Their trip on the metro led them to an apartment, where they continued their uproarious concert for the guests of a party. [cite news|url=http://www.blogotheque.net/Yeasayer,3966|title=Yeasayer - Yeasayer - LA BLOGOTHEQUE]

Discography

*"All Hour Cymbals" (We Are Free, October 23, 2007)

References

External links

*myspace|yeasayer|Yeasayer
* [http://yeasayer.net yeasayer.net] - Band website
* [http://www.nowwearefree.com www.nowwearefree.com] - Label website
* [http://scheduletwo.com/video/yeasayer set of Yeasayer live videos at scheduletwo.com]


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