Video: Tune-Yards - Real Live Flesh (4AD Sessions)

Tune Yards - "Lions" Am at a bit of a loss selecting the genre categories on this one, so I've just gone for "completely awesome". The Tune Yards- Merrill Garbus . Kind of hard to describe, so you'll just have to listen to it. Drums, bass, vocals- she has the most incredibly dynamic range, a voice of amazing subtlety and power- and of course, ukelele's. Not usual fare for DC but I stumbled across this on the weekend, and I've [...]

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Tomorrow begins another Pitchfork Music Festival at Chicago's Union Park. And once again , Loud Loop Press will be on-site at Union Park all weekend long bringing you the best coverage we possibly can. What can yo expect? Updates throughout the day on our Twitter feed and our Facebook page . Then on 10 a.m. the day after (Saturday, Sunday and Monday), we'll have a full recap of the previous day's happenings complete with blurbs on the acts we caught, [...]

Merrill Garbus doesn't just wear her heart on her sleeve, as the cliche goes. She holds it in her hand, arm extended, for all the world to be hypnotized by its beating beauty. A gruesome image, to be sure. But one can't help but feel every bit of raw, seething emotion when listening to her [...]

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My 2011 Record Store Day purchases I attempted to get to my local record store before doors opened this past Saturday (aka "Record Store Day"), but ended up getting there a few minutes after the floodgates had opened. I walked in to find a line snaking through all three aisles of the store. I proceeded to spend the next two hours or so waiting in line to get into the vinyl room of the store, which happened to be the room with all the Record Store Day exclusives. Needless to [...]

I recently saw Merrill Garbus described as ‘all-American’. This seems odd. Garbus, who records and plays as tUnE-yArDs , is certainly American; her gentle East Coast lilt is testament to that. But she exists in a space some way removed from the blue-collar anthemics that the phrase might normally bring to mind. While Garbus’ music certainly draws on elements of traditional American folk, its reference points are so broad, so geographically disparate, that it has become simultaneously American and African, European and Middle Eastern. It is rooted in place, and yet somehow placeless. [...]

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Onetime BTW and impressive Dirty Projectors opener tUne-YarDs, aka Merrill Garbus, signed up with 4AD, got remixed , and then released this video of her and her friends making funny faces and singing along (and then not singing along) to the reissued and expanded BiRd-BrAiNs bonus track "Real Live Flesh." Pretty intense. The only real breaks you get from the mugging are a few shots of patterned fabric. Continue reading New tUne-YarDs Video - "Real Live Flesh"...

The Natural History Musuem and Spaceland Productions have once again teamed up to produce a season of First Fridays for the first half of 2010. Although the full line-up of bands has not announced, January and February has been booked: Atlas Sound and the Tune-Yards on January 8th and Yeasayer and Warpaint on February 5th. DJ Them Jeans (aka Jason Stewart) will spin throughout the season. here's another recent performance from Merrill Garbus: [...]

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