Embed and breakfast man: Tune-Yards

You know who was on Jimmy Fallon's programme last night? Oh, yes...



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Downloadable: Katrina And The Waves

Not actually Katrina And The Waves, of course: Brooklyn Vegan have an ep of covers of Katrina stuff. Fucked Up do Walking On Sunshine, as does Sam Amidon (to be fair, it's not the largest back catalogue to plunder). Sun Street is covered by Deer Tick, and the splendid Tuneyards do I Really Taught Me To Watusi.

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Tune-Yards tour dates

Just a quick, gentle lob of some Tune-Yards tour dates:

9th February - Brighton The Freebutt
11th – Belfast Speakeasy
12th – Dublin Whelans
13th – Manchester Ruby Lounge
14th – Glasgow Captains Rest
15th – London Cargo

And, if you're wondering why you should care: The Tune-Yards weekend

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4AD are lauching a bunch of showcase sessions, as a way of bringing their roster to the masses without the need for expensively-designed CD packaging.

Tune-Yards are first to get a go. Here's Real Live Flesh:



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Tune-Yards Weekend: Hatari

Recorded live at The Secret Garden, by the lovely people from Hooves On The Turf, here's Tune-Yards doing Hatari:



[Part of Tune-Yards weekend]

Tune-Yards Weekend: Top Chef

Over to a backyard shortly before Merrill Grabus launched the album. As a warm up, she worked through Top Chef:



[Part of the Tune-Yards weekend]

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Or, to be precise, tUnE-YaRdS. They - or, rather, she, Merrill Garbus - turned up earlier this week on Marc Riley's 6Music programme to turn in a set of messed-up slickness. And to paint her face. It was radio, but a trademark is a trademark.

Before we get going with some video action, 4AD are offering the track Sunlight as a free download, which is a good starting point.

The Tune-yards MySpace "sounds like" box says:

Your mom when she gets really mad but instead of whoopin' yo' ass she starts making crazy-ass beats with the pots and pans AND yo' ass.

Which sounds a bit like this - FIYA being given a live looping performance:


More about the Tune-Yards
Official site
Tune-Yards on 4AD
Tune-Yards MySpace
Tune-Yards on Last FM

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Bird-Brains on CD
Bird-Brains on mp3

And...
You haven't heard the last of the TuneYards here this weekend, oh no.
Top Chef
Hatari