ROCK & POP: So that's where indie went ... Yeah Yeah Yeahs Leadmill SHEFFIELD Nas Astoria LONDON Tuuli The Peel KINGSTON-UPON-THAMES

The Independent on Sunday | March 2, 2003| | Copyright

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs come with baggage. I mean this both literally - lead singer Karen O designs super-exclusive handbags - and figuratively. For the first time since the heyday of Elastica, significant numbers of indie kids are buying into a band who aren't just cool as a by-product of what they do, but a band whose very raison d'etre is to coolness.

The NME's recent brown-nosed list of the Top 50 Coolest People In The World featured countless shots of garage rockers wearing either a badly- knotted tie, ripped tights, sunglasses indoors, or a fag hanging from their lower lip. Karen O, in a ...

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