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You hear about it from the NME, read it in Australian Rolling Stone, watch
it on MTV Europe—the most exciting music on the globe right now is coming
out of small clubs in lower Manhattan and run-down studios in
Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Led by The Strokes, the post-punk/art-garage rock
explosion in New York City is breathing new life, new style, and a new
attitude into music. Leave it to New York to make rock exciting and fun
again.
YES NEW YORK (named in tribute to NO NEW YORK, the Brian Eno-produced, New
York rock scene compilation from 1978) features 16 tracks of the new
guard, the leaders of the New York rock scene in 2003. Included are songs
by the new heroes (The Strokes, Interpol), the next superstars (The
Rapture, The Walkmen), the young lions (Radio 4, Longwave), the critics
faves (Le Tigre, Ted Leo), and the ones you’ll be hearing a lot more about
soon (The Rogers Sisters, The Fever.) Bookending the record are two
exclusives: a live Strokes recording of a song never before released in
the US, and the first ever released track from Unitard, the secret alter
egos of a band who's song they are "covering". Also noteworthy are four
productions by architects of the New York dance-rcok sound the dfa with
songs by the Rapture, Radio 4, lcd soundsystem, and a Le Tigre
remix.Proceeds from YES NEW YORK will benefit Musicians On Call, a
non-profit organization dedicated to bringing music and musicians into
hospitals. All the songs collected here were donated by the artists.
Released on Wolfgang Morden Records, the compilation imprint of VICE
Records, YES NEW YORK aims to be the definite statement of today’s New
York City rock scene, and a primer to turn the whole world on to the sound
coming off of our streets.
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