Battle of the Boroughs: Karen O vs. King Kong

This Tuesday features a new release from Brooklyn’s finest post-punk trio, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Show Your Bones, the band’s sophomore effort, finds Karen O & crew fleshing out their sound (Squeak E. Clean’s production adds all manners of studio tasties) since their breakthrough debut Fever to Tell. What the band has perhaps lost in fierceness, it has gained in depth of songwriting, maturity of production and a more restrained approach to arrangements. But is that what you want from this decade’s most compellingly confrontational Top 40 Band? We’ll let you decide. . . Also in the store: Ghostface Killah Fishscale, Tim McGraw Greatest Hits Vol. 2, Rob Zombie Educated Horses.

NYC’s favorite ape is back! Peter Jackson’s epic remake of Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack’s 1933 classic borrows most of the plot and many of the same depression-era settings. Where this version stands out is in the LOTR Director’s eye for visual spectacle. His Skull Island (stocked with Dinosaurs, natch) is a special effects bonanza. His 1930’s Manhattan is jaw dropping in it’s attention to detail. Think you didn’t need to see Kong break the shackles and shimmy up the Empire State one more time? Think again. Stars Naomi Watts, Jack Black & Adrian Brody. . . Also out: Memoirs of Geisha, Six Feet Under: The Complete Sixth Season, Get Rich or Die Tryin’.

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