Tune-Yards, aka Merril Garbus and Nate Brenner returned last month with a new album called I can feel you creep into my private life.
Always a fine live performer, Garbus will return to Dublin for a show at the Tivoli Theatre, Dublin on 10th July.
The band are also playing the Roisin Dubh on July 11th.
Tickets priced €24 go on sale this Friday 16th February at 10am through www.ticketmaster.ie & usual outlets nationwide.
Posted on February 13th, 2018
This is only a selection of new music – dig into more or follow the Spotify playlists.
Now officially a duo of Merril Garbus and Nate Brenner, tune-yards will release a fourth record called I can feel you creep into my private life on January 19th. The sound of this song ‘Look At Your Hands’ is a nice taster, it’s more focused, danceable and electronic-leaning while retaining some of that Afro looped pop exuberance that is a key part of the Tune-yards identity.
“Thematically, the twelve new songs tackle race, politics, intersectional feminism and environmental prophecies head on. But in the billows of intense subject matter, the album arrives as Tune-Yards’ most immediate and upbeat music yet – this is music to dance to.|
A Liverpool band whose second single equates a desire for fast food with oral sex, ‘Munchie Magic’ is a gang-shouting slice of glittering shouty neon pop.
From one of my albums of the past week (and a band who announced a Vicar Street show this morning) comes this standout from Between The Earth & The Sky about Ireland. The 8-minute ‘Deanta in Eireann’ that could be about nearly any time in Irish history but are applicable to the now – migration, a government who doesn’t care about the little people and using your Irish charm abroad but it turns the song’s gaze back on the homeland – “if the Dáil are the pimps, then we are the whores” and in the end, you’ll want to stand up and declare the song our new antagonistic national anthem.
THE DFA producer that brought us the absolute dancefloor riproar of ‘Rocketship’ brings the funk and house on this new track. Reminds me of early Daft Punk.
An uncharacteristic banger from Gorillaz with UK rapper Little Simz on vocals. This is a fresh thing.
Bibio has a new album out Friday called Phantom Brickworks and it’s a collection of mostly improvised ambient pieces that are quite evocative.
Phantom Brickworks is a collection of mostly improvised musical pieces, that for some years now, have provided me with a mental portal into places and times – some real, some imaginary, some a combination of both. Human beings are highly sensitive to the atmospheres of places, which can be enhanced or dramatically altered when you learn about the context of their history. Echoes and voices can sometimes be heard, in some way or another. Places sometimes have things to say.” Bibio
Derry producer Andrew Morrison dropped his new album Sapa Inca Delirium last Friday and his stated aim was to bring some warmth into electronic music. On one of the album highlights, he hooks up with Joni, who recorded her vocals in one take over some percussive synth dance music with a nod to garage and drum ‘n’ bass.
Olsen’s been on fire on the collaboration front lately and here, her turn with the Walkmen singer is a great match as his retro singing style is reinforced when she appears.
Glasgow trio Young Fathers have finished recording their third album and so they’ve shared the closing cut from it to coincide with some UK dates. You can’t dance to it they want you to know. It is a slow alt-gospel ballad in their unique style.
Toronto act Teen Ravine bring the crystallised dream pop vibes from an upcoming album.
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Posted on November 1st, 2017
tUnE-yArDs is playing Vicar Street on Tuesday March 3rd. Nice. Tickets are €22 plus fee from Ticketmaster on sale Thursday morning at 9am.
Having topped the UK album charts with I Forget Where We Were (Hozier is still number 1 here), Ben Howard will play the 3Arena on Tuesday April 14th next year. Standing tickets: €39.05 plus fee / Seated tickets €44.05 plus fee on sale Friday 9am from Ticketmaster.
Also playing Vicar Street is Tweedy, also courtesy of Aiken, on Wednesday January 28th. The Wilco singer/songwriter is joined by his 18 year old son Spencer on drums. Son and dad on tour in Europe! Tickets €40.55 plus fees also on sale Thursday at 9am from Ticketmaster.ie.
Finally this morning, another Aiken Vicar Street gig in the form of Daniel Lanois, the producer and composer, who plays the venue Thursday April 16 next year. Tickets on sale Monday November 3rd at 9am costing €44.05 plus fee from Ticketmaster.
Lanois has a new album called Flesh and Machine, out now on Anti.
Posted on October 28th, 2014
After last year’s GIF marathon, we returned to Stradbally this year with the intention of more GIF action. As captured by Killian Broderick and turned into GIFs by me, this is a selection of what went down at Electric Picnic in moving form featuring St. Vincent, Tune-Yards, Outkast, Beck, Sleep Thieves, Portishead, Glass Animals, Girl Band, Clu, Neneh Cherry, Le Galaxie and a lot of festival randomness.
Posted on September 4th, 2014
Body & Soul have announced their lineup for the imminent Electric Picnic festival at the end of August and it’s another doozy lineup of acts across three stages. Only €229.50 weekend tickets are left but there is a serious lineup including the full list below.
tUnE-yArDs
Young Fathers
Perfume Genius
Kate Boy
Francois and The Atlas Mountains
Oum Shatt
Lau
Moodoid
Glass Animals
Olof Arnalds
Alice Boman
Dermot Byrne
Florian Blancke & Brendan O Regan
Join me in the Pines
I Have A Tribe
Linkoban
Jon Gomm
Meltybrains?
Tommy KD
C.R. Avery
Girl Band
Altered Hours
Buffalo Woman
Donal Dineen
Ronan O Snodaigh & The Occasionals
Sounds of a System Breakdown
InterSkalactic
Viking Project
The Careers
Loah
Sleep Thieves
Grounds For Invasion
Youth Mass
Mongoose
Susan O Neill & The Low Standards
Arioso
Grouse
Kowton
Shanti Celeste
P Disconaut
Replete
o.utlier
Chris Farrell
TR-One [live]
Talkboy
UNKNWN [live]
Ghosts
Ryan Vail
Shane Mannion
LAKE PEOPLE [live]
Donal Dineen
Reid
Adultrock [live]
Discotekken
Gilbert Steele
Contour
Sol & Louche
Richem
DJKIDCAM
Mikey Joyride Soro
Maud In Cahoots
Ruff Chuff Live Crew
Come On Live Long
Leo Moran & Anto Thistletwaite
The Tav Jam Band
WOB!
Joe Fury & The Hayride
Punch Face Champions
Willow Sea & Guests
Aindrais De Staic & The Latchikos
Attention Bébé
Stevie G & the Deep South Soul Soundsystem
The Eskies
Simi Crowns
Noelie McDonnell & Band
EDFT
i am niamh
Polyphonic X
The Amazing Few
Sinead White
The Ground Will Shake
Koukie
Floor Staff
Somerville
Eileen Keane
Malcolm London
Symphonic Funk
Tradiohead
Mikey and The Scallywags
Strange Boats
G.I.R.O
The Cold Draw
Louisiana 6
Shay Cotter and the New Blues
Analogue Wave
In The Willows
Posted on July 30th, 2014
OK it’s been a few weeks due to me being away so there’s some songs that are a few weeks old in here.
Another brilliant single from Nabuma Rubberband. Cannot wait.
A highlight from my album of the week.
A sweet whistle-hook bright indie jam from the Boston band The Derevolutions. The band are Brett Boucher + Ana Karina
Machinedrum has stepped up and turned in a beguiling remix of Food album slow cut ‘Runnin’.
Really getting into Mr Khan now. It’s like Jai Paul if he released records. This is from his forthcoming 1992 EP.
Patrick O’Laoghaire was playing with Slow Skies a year ago. Now he’s supported Anna Calvi on a European Tour and releases a debut EP on Faction Records next month with two gigs in Dublin’s Chancery Lane Theatre.
The debut track from an London/Iranian musician cultivates an aesthetic that references her ancestry through deep-low end, bright synth melodies, vocal cutups and nuanced percussion. TĀLĀ is the sole composer, producer and singer.
Son of Bobby ‘Don’t Worry Be Happy’ McFerrin has an album coming on Brainfeeder in June. RIYL: Fly Lo. Duh.
A sombre elegy from the Derry duo, their first in a year.
A slow R&B-style cut from Tune-Yards’ new album.
Posted on April 11th, 2014
Tune-Yards has a new album called Nikki Nack on May 2nd in Ireland on 4AD. You’ve probably already heard ‘Water Fountain’, a track that was very much in the established style of Tune-Yards. New track ‘Wait For A Minute’ is a bit more R&B than we’re used to from Merril Garbus.
Posted on April 8th, 2014
Exciting news for a Monday, tUnE-YaRdS‘ Merrill Garbus announced her new album today on her birthday with a frantic megamix that gives you some idea of what it will sound like. “It came to me in a dream and is a little nutso,” she said on Facebook. Which is this madness:
Posted on March 3rd, 2014
Highlights: Tune-Yards, Wu-Tang Clan, Joy Orbison, Low, 10 Days In Dublin, Paul Simon, Monster Truck fundraiser, Le Galaxie EP launch & Teengirl Fantasy.
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Posted on July 10th, 2012
The brilliant live show of Merrill Garbus aka tUnE-YaRdS is coming to Vicar Street next weekend on Sunday July 15th with support from Micachu & the Shapes (who has a new album Never due out later this month) and Dublin sunny-electro duo Last Days of 1984.
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Posted on July 6th, 2012
A dose of Merril Garbus goodness. Following on from the kids from last year’s ‘Bizness’ video, these children come from the Brightworks and San Francisco Rock Project , a nonprofit music school that offers musical education to kids through the experience of learning and performing rock music. Tune-Yards has set up a Kickstarter project to help them out for appearing in the uplifting video, which was directed by Mimi Cave. Tune-Yards play Vicar Street on July 15th.
Posted on April 11th, 2012
Highlights: Tune-Yards, BLONDES, Balam Acab, Musicmaker Social, Michael Kiwanuka, !Kaboogie Sixth Birthday with Miss Dynamite.
This is the weekly list of recommended gigs taking place over the next seven days in Dublin published every Tuesday. All times are 7.30/8pm unless stated. Feel free to recommend events not present in the comments below.
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Posted on February 7th, 2012
If Nialler9 did Person of the Year in music nominations, Merril Garbus would have won it hands down. On Jimmy Kimmel she performs my song of the year with ‘You Yes You’ following it up. W h o K i l l? tUnE-yArDs does. They’re back in Dublin in February.
Posted on January 6th, 2012
A few people have asked me for this list so it got me thinking. I couldn’t keep it to ten so here are my own personal top 12 gigs of the year.
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Posted on December 20th, 2011
Myself and Aoife introduced two friends of ours to tUnE-yArDs’ last night by playing them ‘Bizness’ and ‘Party Can’. Watching their jaws drop was a delight. There’s no greater joy than sharing some good music and Merrill Garbus is a pretty exceptional musician. The video is a black and white tour made affair but sure, any excuse for a birra tUnE-yArDs.
Posted on September 26th, 2011
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