Tune-Yards: Sketchy review – agit-pop punk sweetened with deep grooves
Themes of climate disaster, gender dysphoria and fighting privilege bubble up through a discomfiting but enjoyable sonic deluge
February 2021
'It shook me to my core': 50 years of Carole King's Tapestry
James Taylor, Roberta Flack, Tori Amos, Joan Armatrading, Rufus Wainwright and more on the 70s masterpiece
January 2018
Tune-Yards: I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life – review
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Tune-Yards: I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life review – wonky diva wakes up to wokeness
Merrill Garbus’s identity politics may skirt self-parody, but by combining them with house and disco, she’s made an album custom-built for 2018
Tune-Yards: ‘The shared experience of music is sacred’
Merrill Garbus, frontwoman of the art-pop act, talks about white privilege, female producers and dance music
February 2016
Mavis Staples: Livin’ on a High Note review – bring on the great and the good
The songwriting credits on Staples’ latest read like a Who’s Who of alternative music
June 2015
David Byrne: flying the flag for colour guard
When the Talking Heads legend saw a high school team twirling flags he felt that it was an undiscovered folk art – so he got a collection of musicians to perform with the teams in a rare, exciting performance
April 2015
New band of the week
New band of the Week: U.S. Girls (No 50)
She’s just signed to 4AD, and she’s the fast-rising exponent of luscious lo-fi DIY pop - expect Grimes/Tune-Yards/St Vincent levels of critical excitement
January 2015
David Byrne to stage colour guard shows with Kelis and St Vincent
Byrne to combine flag-twirling performances with live music
August 2014
On my radar
On my radar: Merrill Garbus's cultural highlights
The pop maverick behind Tune-Yards talks to Leah Harper about Roald Dahl, Jean-Luc Godard's Masculin Féminin and vegan Mexican food
July 2014
Cult music heroes: artists on their unsung idols
Who inspires Faris Badwan, New Order and Jake Bugg? From a north London rapper to a Turkish protest singer, these are the musicians who influence the stars
June 2014
The hot tickets
The week ahead in arts
Look out for Douglas Gordon's film of Zinedine Zidane and The Killing's Sofie Gråbøl on stage in Scotland, plus avant garde meets pop as Tune-Yards' Merrill Garbus plays Brixton
Tune-Yards at Glastonbury 2014 review – Haitian rhythms and siren noises
Merrill Garbus puts on a colourful show, but her music is better suited to more intimate venues than fields, writes Tim Jonze
This week's new live music
Tune-Yards, Parquet Courts: this week's new live music
Glastonbury warm-up gigs | Tune-Yards | Parquet Courts | Shirley Collins | Neil Cowley Trio | Call Me George
May 2014
Tune-Yards review – contrary and superbly visceral
Music blog
Five albums to try this week
Tune-Yards: Nikki Nack review – inventive but frustrating
Exclusive Tune-Yards shoot for the Guide
Tune-Yards: politics, pop and Pee-wee's Playhouse
Tune-Yards: Nikki Nack review – reeling with captivating contradictions
