[xrr rating=3.0/5]When is a debut not a debut? Crush Songs may be Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ first official solo album, but it’s not as though she hasn’t been working without the band for some time now. Her sterling work on the soundtrack to Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are was in 2009, and just last year, …

[xrr rating=3.25/5]When Yeah Yeah Yeahs debuted in 2003 with Fever to Tell, it didn’t seem very likely that they would be one of the longest lasting, most consistent bands in New York’s 2000s boom of indie rock. For one thing, NYC has been in a perpetual loop of art bands making it big, commercializing and then crashing, only to be …

Karen O and the Kids Where the Wild Things Are OST Rating: 4.0/5.0 Label: DGC/Interscope First thing’s first- I have no idea how Spike Jonze will translate Maurice Sendak’s beloved 10 sentence book Where the Wild Things Are into a feature length film. As that’s the case, it’s difficult to think of how the soundtrack is going to measure up …