LargeHeartedBoy — The Quietus interviewed Karen O. The 2014 Man Booker Prize shortlist has been named. Ryan Adams visited World Cafe for a live performance and interview. Electric Literature interviewed author Jeff VanderMeer. The Republican interviewed Jeff Tweedy of... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Karen O w/ Yeah Yeah Yeahs at Barclays Center in 2013 (more by Amanda Hatfield) You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights... Karen O @ McKittrick Hotel Karen O's... more info

NME — Plus new albums from Karen O, Robert Plant and Banks more info

NME — The Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman releases her debut solo album 'Crush Songs' tomorrow (September 8) more info

NME — The album is due for release on September 9 more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Tao Lin interviewed Ben Lerner at The Believer. NPR Music is streaming Karen O's new album Crush Songs. The Week listed the best books for political junkies coming out this fall. PopMatters profiles Steven Drozd of the Flaming Lips. Patterson... more info

Stereogum — In 2006 and 2007, between the time the Yeah Yeah Yeahs released Show Your Bones and when they dropped It’s Blitz!, that band’s frontwoman Karen O recorded a series of songs about crushes. These were lo-fi home recordings, and it’s hard to say i... more info

NME — New song lifted from forthcoming solo album 'Crush Songs' more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer Karen O already shared "Rapt" off her upcoming debut solo album, Crush Songs (due next week via Julian Casablancas' label), and now she's unveiled another one, "Day Go By." Like its predecessor, it's... more info

Stereogum — Crush Songs, the collection of lo-fi bedroom songs that Yeah Yeah Yeahs leader Karen O recorded a few years ago, is coming out in a week. Until this morning, the only song we’d heard from the album was the soft, wispy “Rapt.” But now, Karen has... more info