Yeah Yeah Yeahs make acting debut with Tiny Masters :: Music News :: Articles

Karen O, Nick Zinner and Brian Chase – better known as snarling garage band the Yeah Yeah Yeahs – have made their collective acting debut in a new music video for The Tiny Masters of Today.

The Tiny Masters are a Brooklyn-based brother-sister duo who turned heads last year after posting several songs on their MySpace page. Fourteen-year-old Ivan (guitar, bass, drums) and 12-year-old Ada (guitar, keyboard, drums) soon had a who’s-who list of music industry admirers, including David Bowie, Kimya Dawson and Jena Malone drummer Russell Simins (who later drummed for the siblings on tour and on their debut album.) Fellow New Yorkers the Yeah Yeah Yeahs also befriended the tiny musicians, and Karen O and Zinner guested on their debut album Bang Bang Boom Cake.

Ivan and Ada approached Karen O again early this year as they prepared to shoot a video for their song “Hologram World.” They enlisted Karen O and Barnaby Clay to direct the video, a campy horror clip that pays homage to both Monty Python and Michael Jackson’s Thriller. What begins as an awkward teeny-bopper house party soon turns into a zombie bloodbath reminiscent of an early George Romero flick, complete with flesh-chomping zombies and blood-splattered walls.

The video boasts cameos by the YYYs as well as members of the Beastie Boys, Services, Blues Explosion and the Butthole Surfers. Perhaps they were entranced by the video’s “perennial themes applicable to all such as Kids vs. Adults, Punks vs. the Socs and The Living vs. The Undead,” as described on the YYYs’ website. Or maybe they just found the premise of party-crashing zombies as side-splittingly hilarious as this author.

Check out The Tiny Masters and friends in “Hologram World” below: