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Garbus studied at Smith, the highly selective all-women's college in Massachussetts. It was a revelation after high school, "where girls were generally into having eating disorders and looking pretty and having sex. I still feel this kind of embitteredness about the fact that a lot of the men I work with haven't had such paralysing experiences growing up."Like she did on Monday, tUnE-yArDs headlined a sold out show at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC on Tuesday night (9/20). Prussia opened this one. Here are some pictures.Her college experience included a semester in Kenya, where she lived among Muslim women and explored the country's music. She emerged with the political conviction that "the white western world was oppressing the rest of the world. And that sucked. And because I was part of the white western world I didn't deserve to live."
That's a lot of liberal guilt...
"Exactly. White-person guilt. That was supposed to be the name of my first album, and then someone was like, 'please don't call your album White Guilt'. And now I sort of wish I had." [Guardian]
More tour dates HERE. More pictures below...
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Tuneyards is only interesting to hipsters because she uses a looping pedal. Spin Doctors play every single note live right before your very eyes and still are more interesting. Spin Doctors 1, Tune Yards 0.
Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 2:49 PM
I heard Mark White taught Merril Garbus how to play the Ukuelele.
Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 2:50 PM
the name tUnE-yArDs is actually derived from the time merrill garbus couldn't get into a sold out Spin Doctors show and ended up in a parking lot listening to the sweet tunes drifting in over the night air.
Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 2:52 PM
tUnE-yArDs > Spin Doctors!
Thats right folks spin doctors blow more than a snow blower does in December!
Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 2:55 PM
Spin Doctors blow sweet music outta their amps turned up to 11.
Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 3:04 PM
tUnE-yArDs blow sweet hummus outta their amps turned up to 11
Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 3:07 PM
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Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 3:11 PM
guys, its easy to see that tune yards just stole their name from the spin doctors. both have the verb noun format.
Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 3:12 PM
tUNE-Yarddsss was embarrassed at this obvious rip off of Spin Doctors name so she added the lower case / upper case thing to mask it.
Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 3:15 PM
um, right.
anyway, how was this show?
Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 3:21 PM
I wasn't there but I'm going to guess it was shitty and boring like everything else covered by this site that isn't the Spin Doctors.
Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 3:23 PM
"Tuneyards is only interesting to hipsters because she uses a looping pedal. Spin Doctors play every single note live right before your very eyes and still are more interesting. Spin Doctors 1, Tune Yards 0."
Considering you're one of the many people (and conforming to the crowd) who is on the "Spin Doctors" bandwagon, you come off as one of these hipsters yourself. Sorry.
Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 3:25 PM
Spin Doctors are trailblazers, an SD fan is an individual, not a bandwagoneer.
Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 3:27 PM
nice 'stache
Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 3:30 PM
Band of Sufjan Stevens rejects
Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 3:38 PM
I second the mustache comment. Excellent work. It is another example of her ripping of Spin Doctors. Facial Hair!
Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 3:54 PM
i like smelly chicks
Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 4:08 PM
yeah Le Poisson Roug must have reeked after this sow. Good god.
Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 4:43 PM
She shouldn't feel guilty for being white, she should feel terrible about sucking.
Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 4:50 PM
Spin Doctors = funnier in much, much smaller doses. No meme can beat people into submission, not even the Williamsburg faggots who could be beaten into submission with a strawberry Twizzler.
Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 5:52 PM
The day is coming - and it may already be upon us - where the BV censors will catch up to the douchenozzle poster and we shall never see THAT band's name in BV ever again.
May that day come soon.
Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 6:13 PM
those poor horn players.
Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 10:34 PM
^ i know right? To endure that stench? God bless them...
Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 11:10 PM
The day is coming - and it may already be upon us - where the BV Spin Doctors will catch up to the douchenozzle and we shall see SPIN DOCTORS little miss C.B.W. in BV again and again.
May that day come soon.
http://www.myspace.com/spindoctors
Posted by Anonymous | September 23, 2011 12:46 AM
some serious art school schlock
Posted by Anonymous | September 23, 2011 1:17 AM
You people are not funny.
Posted by Anonymous | September 23, 2011 11:06 AM
she's angry and liberal.
Posted by Anonymous | September 23, 2011 12:35 PM
I love this band! Anyone want to talk about how the actual show was? Sorry I missed it; Merrill is so amazing live.
Posted by Andrea | September 24, 2011 1:14 PM