Holy Birkenstocks, is New York's favorite post-punk/garage-pop trio about to go all freak-folk on us? The latest news from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs camp talks of recording their upcoming third album in a Northeastern barn and a Southwestern ranch, drops words like "rural" and "spacing out," and makes mention of kittens being the band's "soft fuzzy muses" [no, really]. Between this and the accompanying photo of the band in the studio wearing outfits that suggest a Halloween party at Timothy Leary's house, should we expect that YYY III will be full of Newsom/Banhart-style neo-hippie musings? More details as they arrive.