It’s no secret that New York City’s burgeoning alt-rock scene is becoming a Mecca for our nation’s label-redefining youth.

We are part of a generation of progressive thinkers with alternative lifestyles that enrich the culture around us, and the music industry is beginning to reflect this notion. On March 31, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs debuted their third full-length album; the dazzling “It’s Blitz!” constitutes an anthem for our alt-culture.

The YYY’s had rocketed to pseudo-stardom by way of the video game/music-marketing-giant “Rock Band.” Being one of the first tracks in the game, players would be subjected to playing through the single “Maps,” off of their 2003 LP “Fever to Tell” an untenable amount of times. That album’s grungy, down-beat heavy and orgasmic tone became the foundation for the YYY’s sound over the next six years; now in 2009 the band begins to reinvent itself.

“There’s no comparison to the feeling you get when you’re dancing like your life depends on it,” lead singer Karen O told Spin Magazine, which is made a declaration by the second track on the album, “Heads Will Roll.”

As if Marie Antoinette had come back to life in an effort to assert herself through disco music, Karen O sings “Off with head, dance ‘til you’re dead, heads will roll, on the floor,” while being driven by the YYY’s new pulsating-techno-rock style. This tune seamlessly accompanies the flag-ship first track and single “Zero,” a club-ready requiem that bids you to get your leather, know the dark, hit the spot and shake it like a madman.

After two soft-toed soliloquies entitled “Soft Shock” and “Skeletons,” “It’s Blitz!” hits its stride with the soul-searching nod to their older sound with the polished-rock anthem “Dull Life.” Karen O attests “we sing the nightmare of your lives” whilst being back by a rhino-esque stampeding rock beat that tears through your body with no remorse.

“Runaway,” the albums heart crushing b-side weighs heavily on listener’s emotions, evoking the lost-and-found characteristics of a love-life run amok. For YYY’s fans out there, this tune is the testament to Karen O’s ability to write seemingly perfect lost-love songs. Immediately following are the raucously optimistic found-love tunes “Dragon Queen” and “Hysteric,” ultimately ending the album with the beautiful lullaby “Little Shadow”.

Conceptually speaking “It’s Blitz!” seems to follow a woman’s pursuit of happiness via a night out clubbing. She begins by donning her leather then riding the rollercoaster of dancing, drinking, drug-use, and sex, but ultimately finds solace in the little shadows that populate her room at night. It’s nearly impossible to not like this album (let alone not listen to it 10 times in a row); it’s a conceptual masterpiece from beginning to end. To my urban-dwelling brethren is say listen to it now and listen to it loud—this is our anthem.