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Merrill Garbus

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    April 10, 2012

    Six Best Coachella Death Matches

    You may know that the Coachella festival begins this weekend, in which Indio, California is overtaken with every type of person from hippies to people who like watching bands outside and camping yet deny being hippies. The impressive lineup has a few notably similar acts who may not be rivals but st ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2012

    Pazz & Jop 2011 is Live

    The Village Voice has been running the definitive music critic's year-end poll for 39 years now, and its results are live. Your winners: tUnE-yArDs w h o k i l l unseats Kanye West in the album category and Adele continues to trample all over everything in the singles department. Go look at the comp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2012

    Coachella in St. Louis: Make Your Own Spring Festival Without Leaving Home

    The Coachella 2012 lineup is out, featuring the Black Keys, Radiohead, Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg and roughly half of Pitchfork's Top 50 Albums of 2011 list. But California is far away and three day passes (officially) cost your left eyeball and firstborn child. Fortunately, many of the Coachella highligh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2012

    Coachella 2012 Lineup: Black Keys, Radiohead and Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg Headline

    Coachella has just announced its 2012 lineup. The festival, which will take place over two weekends in April, will feature the Black Keys, Radiohead, Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg as headliners, and it doesn't exactly drop off from there: Pulp, Cat Power, M83, the Shins, Bon Iver, Noel Gallagher, Feist, Jeff ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2011

    Hail the Women of St. Vincent and tUnE-yArDs, Creators of Some of 2011's Best Music

    tUnE-yArDs, left, by Jason Stoff. St. VIncent, right, by Kiernan Maletsky​The annual apocalypse is nigh, wherein critics celebrate the end of the year with a debaucherous amount of self-important analysis on the previous twelve months in music. I am among the many to rank my favorite records, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2011

    Six Best Uses of Saxophones in 2011

    So smooth.​Nobody saw this coming - 2011 may go down as the Year of the Saxophone. The instrument infiltrated many of the year's most creative albums, often showing up unannounced to push an already awesome song into unforeseen greatness. As the world begins looking back at the past twelve mon ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2011

    tUnE-yArDs at Off Broadway, 11/8/11: Review, Photos and Setlist

    Photo by Jason StoffPlenty more where that came from.​tUnE-yArDs | Pat Jordache Off Broadway November 8, 2011 Attending a show is participating in it. There is no such thing as a bystander at any occasion of live music; every single person, whether on stage or not, affects the proceedings in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2011

    Your Guide to Tonight's tUnE-yArDs Show

    Anna M Campbell​tUnE-yArDs, your presumptive early frontrunner in the Year End Listgasm Sweepstakes, is playing at Off Broadway tonight. But the thing to note here is that the album (w h o k i l l, naturally, because the incredible talent behind all this, Merrill Garbus, ain't doing anyone any ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2011

    Entertain Your Brain with a tUnE-yArDs Sudoku Puzzle!

    ​Editor's note: The first person to email me (kiernan DOT maletsky AT riverfronttimes DOT com) with the completed puzzle attached wins a prize pack grab bag that may or may not include Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of Van Halen and/or Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of the Police, both o ... More >>

  • Music

    November 3, 2011

    tUnE-yArDs

    8 p.m. Tuesday, November 8. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2011

    Joe Lally Of Fugazi Is Coming To Off Broadway

    ​Joe Lally will be playing at Off Broadway on November 9th. It's an early one: Show starts at 7 p.m. No openers have been announced, and unless we are very much mistaken he had locals last time. Ahem. The ex-Fugazi bass guitarist is touring in support of his April release Why Should I Get Us ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2011

    tUnE-yArDs Plays "Gangsta" With The Roots In Our St. Louis Concert Calendar Fantasy

    Image via​And also in reality, on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, which has given us plenty of incredible musical performances. But you'd be hard-pressed to name one that tops last night's tUnE-yArDs appearance, at least in terms of the actual collaborative value. Fearless freak Merril Garbus p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2011

    Update: Tickets On Sale Now -- tUnE-yArDs is Coming to Off Broadway

    Anna M Cambell​Merrill Garbus, a.k.a. tUnE-yArDs, is coming to Off Broadway on November 8th. Pat Jordache will open. Update: Tickets are now on sale -- buy them online through Eleven Productions or at Off Broadway. whokill, tUnE-yArDs second full-length, is among the best-reviewed records o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2011

    The Joy Formidable, Skrillex, Bad Brains Lead This Week's Show Announcements

    The Joy Formidable, at The Firebird September 21. ​The broken glowsticks and prepubescent sweat have barely dried on the Pageant floor from last week's epic Skrillex show, but the man, the myth, the haircut is returning for an encore performance on November 3. H.R. (Human Rights), the lead sin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2011

    Pitchfork 2011: Odd Future, HEALTH and Other Highlights from Day Three

    Tyler, the Creator.​Pitchfork: The Final Frontier. The final, sold-out day of Pitchfork had two acts I was dying to see -- unfortunately, both of those were practically at the same time -- Odd Future at 3:20 and Shabazz Palaces at 3:45. I had to see the tall tale that is Odd Future for myself, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2011

    Pitchfork 2011: tUnE-yArDs, Guided By Voices And Other Day One Highlights

    Guided By Voices​The weather was perfect and apparently -- horrifically -- it is mom-jean-short-season. It was a day for eccentric acts, the line-up carefully curated to force superfans into buying Friday tickets. The will call line stretched around the block and then some. 4:32 pm:tUnE-yArDs ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2011

    Pitchfork Music Festival 2011: What to Expect, What to See and More

    ​Sometimes the Iternets can put on one helluva flesh-and-blood show. Pitchfork Music Festival is run by the music blog of the same name, which just announced it's expanding to Paris this fall with an overseas version of the festival to be curated by (Everybody Loves) Bon Iver. The American b ... More >>

  • Music

    July 28, 2010

    Happy Birthday

    8 p.m. Monday, August 2. Off Broadway,

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2010

    Photos: Xiu Xiu and tUnE-yArDs at Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center, March 30, 2010

    Here are more photos from Tuesday's Xiu Xiu/tUnE-yArDs show. For the full review, click here. Diana BenantiFemale noise duo Talk Normal brought their brand of grimy no wave from That Place in New York That Every Band Calls Home: Brooklyn.​​

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2010

    Review: Xiu Xiu and tUnE-yArDs at the Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center, Tuesday, March 30

    For the uninitiated, the Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center is a smallish, non-profit venue that's all-ages and alcohol free. There's no stage, so there's no fourth wall, and it's the kind of place that artists love to play. "This is a very special venue for us," Xiu Xiu frontman Jamie Stewart said last ... More >>

  • Music

    March 24, 2010

    tUnE-yArDs/Xiu Xiu

    8 p.m. Tuesday, March 30. Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center, 3301 Lemp Avenue.

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2009

    Show Review Setlist: Sunset Rubdown and Tune-Yards at Off Broadway, Wednesday, October 21

    REVIEW BY MATTHEW JACKSON "I've heard of creatures who eat their babies, I wonder if they stop to think about the taste," Spencer Krug sang on Wednesday night at a semi-crowded Off-Broadway. The song, "Us Ones in Between," was the last in a show that stacked up a series of tangled and tense compo ... More >>

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