Watch Dave Grohl and Karen O Perform ‘Heads Will Roll’

Dave Grohl and Greg Kurstin have been joined by Karen O for a rendition of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ 2009 monitor, “Heads Will Roll.”

You can view footage of the efficiency, a part of Grohl’s annual Hanukkah Sessions sequence, beneath.

Grohl, who just isn’t Jewish, first launched the sequence in 2020 along with his collaborator and producer Kurstin, who’s Jewish. They’ve been releasing eight cowl songs by Jewish artists, one for every day of the vacation. But as they identified on this occasion: “Leave it to us to get the only non-Jewish member of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs to Hanukkah-ize one of their signature songs.”

Earlier this month, Grohl and an organization of musical company (together with O, Pink, Beck, Tenacious D and extra) carried out a secret present in Los Angeles, the primary time Grohl has accomplished the sequence for an in-person viewers. Nine songs have been recorded, together with Blood, Sweat & Tears’ “Spinning Wheel,” Rush’s “The Spirit of Radio” and 10cc’s “The Things We Do for Love,” amongst others.

O’s Yeah Yeah Yeahs bandmate Brian Chase was raised in a Reform Jewish family. He usually heard conventional Jewish music rising up, however was excited by quite a lot of genres and bands – together with Grohl’s. “When I was kid, I would be playing Nirvana covers at night and the next day be part of a jazz recital,” Chase instructed The Jerusalem Post in 2009. “I was into many different worlds.”

Chase met fellow scholar O within the late ’90s at Oberlin College in Ohio, the place Chase was finding out jazz on the faculty’s conservatory. Later, when O transferred to New York University, she met guitarist Nick Zinner at an area bar, and the trio finally fashioned the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Their self-titled debut EP arrived in 2001.

Eight years later, “Heads Will Roll” was launched because the second single from their third studio album, It’s Blitz! The album debuted at No. 32 on the Billboard 200 and was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album on the 2010 Grammy Awards. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ most up-to-date album, September’s Cool It Down, additionally earned a Grammy nomination for Best Alternative Music Album.

“During the pandemic, I was struck by the fear that I may never get on stage again or be on the road with my band – who in many ways are my family,” O instructed Haaretz in June, because the Yeah Yeah Yeahs launched a brand new tour. “But we’re back playing. … I’m grateful for it at the deepest possible level.”

Kurstin x Grohl with Karen O – ‘Heads Will Roll’

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