"Actor: Yeah Yeah Yeahs"

• Later With Jools Holland - Even Louder | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The last few years have been good for rock from the dark side. Sure there's plenty of polite middle-of-the-road so-called 'rock' out there but equally there's been a resurgence of bands with the bass slung low the eyeliner pencil on overdrive and the threads mostly leaning to black. Bands that kick ass with an arty edge bands that somehow imply that life and death matter but who are also prone to wonder whether they really give a damn? The Cure are back in fashion John Cale S

• Tell Me What Rockers to Swallow | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  The Yeah Yeah Yeahs' first DVD, Tell Me What Rockers to Swallow, comes after the release of just one album, one EP and a bucketload of hype. The focus here is the full live concert recorded at San Francisco's Fillmore, which showcases the band at their best and singer Karen O in full-on charismatic exuberance--she's a natural performer and a rock star through and through. But with only so many songs in their repertoire, they do tend to draw things out a bit between tracks. When she takes the time during the intro of "Miles Away" to eat a bunch of grapes on stage, it all seems a bit Yoko (surely not the type of art that needs to be in artrock). Still, mild pretensions aside, they do put on a heck of an entertaining show. Bonus features include the videos for "Y-Control" (eerily directed by Spike Jonze), "Pin", "Date with the Night" and "Maps", some bonus concert footage and some wholly unnecessary backstage footage. As a full package, Tell Me What Rockers to Swallow works well and whets the appetite for the second album. --Robert Burrow