"Date with the Night," the lead single from Yeah Yeah Yeahs' 2003 debut LP Fever to Tell, heralded the mainstream arrival of a band fervently boosted by critics and industry leaders since the dawn of the millennium. While another song from the same album - the world-conquering "Maps" - turned Yeah Yeah Yeahs into icons, "Date with the Night" is notable for its evocation of New York as a grimy Petri dish of raw creative expression: Nick Zinner's incinerating guitar and Karen O's id-borne yelps capture the city in all its storied dirt and danger.
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