Karen O and the Kids was the name of the ensemble brought together by Korean-born American musician Karen O (singer with Yeah Yeah Yeahs) for the soundtrack of the Oscar-nominated movie Where the Wild Things Are directed by Spike Jonze. For the soundtrack, friends and fellow musicians were enlisted, including Tristan Bechet (Services), Tom Biller (co-producer with Karen O and member of The Afternoons), Bradford Cox (Deerhunter), Brian Chase (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Dean Fertita (Queens of the Stone Age, The Dead Weather, The Raconteurs), Aaron Hemphill (Liars), Greg Kurstin (The Bird and the Bee), Jack Lawrence (The Dead Weather, The Raconteurs, The Greenhornes), Oscar Michel (The Gris Gris), Imaad Wasif (The Folk Implosion, Alaska!), Nick Zinner, (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and an untrained children’s choir. Read more on Last.fm.