Tune Yards @ 9:30 Club — live event
After a period of feeling creatively lost, it was reconnecting with the blissful, bodily enjoyment of music that pulled Merrill Garbus back into the recording studio. "There started to be a shift in me – I realized that music is so enjoyable, and pleasurable," says Merrill. "And I started feeling like, creativity is how we're going to get out of these situations we're in. The practice of being creative, through a time of feeling lost, suddenly felt really important." After releasing the fourth Tune-Yards album, I can feel you creep into my private life, in 2018, she had felt sure that the time had come for Tune-Yards to retire. "I couldn't see a future," she remembers now. "After the last record, I felt really confused – even about how to be on stage." I can feel you... was an examination of Tune-Yards' complicity in white supremacy and indebtedness to Black musical traditions, and formed a self - reflexive question mark at the end of a decade of outspoken, polyrhythmic indie music. From 2009 to 2018, Tune-Yards (Merrill and her partner and collaborator Nate Brenner) released four critically - acclaimed albums on 4AD, travelled the world relentlessly to play live shows, and composed the psychedelic score to Boots Riley's surrealist cinematic masterpiece Sorry To Bother You. Tune-Yards have partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 from each ticket will benefit the PLUS1 Ukraine Relief Fund, supporting the people of Ukraine through effective grassroots nonprofits providing humanitarian aid, refugee support, and access to critical information. This is an all ages event. Garbus became a producer in her own right working with bassist Nate Brenner and engineer Eli Crews on 2011's w h o k i l l, a startling and sonically adventurous statement that led to a whirlwind period where the band accrued accolades from critics (including the #1 spot on the Village Voice's 2011 Pazz and Jop poll.) In 2014, Tune-Yards released Nikki Nack, and through touring and licensing music from that album, they raised money to begin The Water Fountain, a fund for water-related causes which has donated over $75,000 to various nonprofits since its inception. Tune-Yards has collaborated with Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, Mavis Staples, and others. They are currently working on their fourth album, for release in 2018.
Starts: 2022-06-16T19:00:39Z
Ends: 2022-06-16T22:30:39Z
Where: 815 V Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia 20001, United States
Price: $31.0