Merrill Garbus, the insanely talented frontwoman of what Wikipedia calls “lo-fi, R&B, experimental” group tUnE-yArds tweeted this sucker:
For my birthday I did a mashup of all the songs off our new album as I CAN’T KEEP THEM SILENT ANYMORE! #NikkiNackMay6 http://t.co/VKIYcN8Ni7
— merrill garbus (@tuneyards) March 3, 2014
That sound was your week getting weirder, thankfully. This woman oozes Martian party anthems better than Martians.
Here’s the mashup video from that link as well as a list of tour dates (both via Under the Gun Review).
05-05 Los Angeles, CA – Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever
05-07 Brooklyn, NY – Rough Trade
05-12 London, England – Village Underground
05-14 Berlin, Germany – Berghain
05-15 Hamburg, Germany – Nochtspeicher
05-16 Brussels, Belgium – Les Nuits-Cirque Royal
05-18 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Bitterzoet
05-19 Paris, France – Cafe de La Danse
05-23 Bend, OR – Les Schwab Ampitheater *
05-25 George, WA – Sasquatch Festival
06-01 Houston, TX – Free Press Summerfest
06-19 Toronto, Ontario – NXNE, Massey Hall
06-21 Dover, DE – Firefly Festival
07-19 Chicago, IL – Pitchfork Music Festival
* with The National