''Tell Me What Rockers to Swallow'' is a music

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released by the

Yeah Yeah Yeahs The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are an American indie rock band formed in New York City in 2000. The group is composed of vocalist and pianist Karen O (born Karen Lee Orzolek), guitarist and keyboardist Nick Zinner, and drummer Brian Chase. They are complem ...

on October 25, 2004, through

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. The main feature of the DVD is the band's live performance at

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on March 17, 2004, with bonus songs recorded during the previous day's performance. The DVD was directed and produced by

Lance Bangs Lance Bangs (born September 4, 1972) is an American filmmaker and music video director. He has created videos for Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Neutral Milk Hotel, Green Day, Arcade Fire, The Shins, The Thermals, Belle & Sebastian, Menomena, Yeah Yeah ...

. The track listing of the concert is as follows: # "Y-Control" # "Black Tongue" # "Rockers to Swallow" # "

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" # "Cold Light" # "Machine" # "Modern Things" # "

Cheated Hearts "Cheated Hearts" is a single by New York-based alternative rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs. It is taken from their second album ''Show Your Bones''. The song was first released as a live performance from their DVD, Tell Me What Rockers to Swallow in 2 ...

" # "Mystery Girl" # "Maps" # "Date with the Night" # "Miles Away" # "Poor Song" # "Our Time" # "Art Star" # "Modern Romance" Bonus Songs: # "10x10" # "Rich" # "Black Tongue" # "Sealings" # "Miles Away" # "Tick" The DVD also features a behind the scenes documentary on the band's tour in

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, interviews with the band, and all the

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s released by the time of the DVD's release, along with their performance of "Maps" at the

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Movie Awards.

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is amongst the camera operators for the concert recording, and he is also featured in interviews on the DVD, as is director,

Michelle Zauner Michelle Chongmi Zauner (born March 29, 1989) is a Korean-American musician and author, best known as the lead vocalist of the alternative pop band Japanese Breakfast. Her 2021 memoir, '' Crying in H Mart'', spent 60 weeks on ''The New York Times ...

(Japanese Breakfast) described the influence of the concert: “My friend had the DVD of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs live at the Fillmore. Seeing Karen O for the first time changed my life. She spat water all over herself and used the microphone in ways I had never seen before... Finding out that she was half-Korean in the super white male dominated industry was just mind blowing. It was such a life-changing moment for me... I felt so connected to her and she was such an important role model in my life.”

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