Merrill Garbus, aka tUnE-yArDs, will be home for Fillmore shows June 6 (which is sold out) and June 7. Get on it.
PHOTO BY HOLLY ANDRESBeing weird in a good way seems like a more difficult status for artists to attain than it used to be. We can tell when you're trying too hard -- the Gaga meat dress, the Miley tongue-wags felt 'round the world -- and it's straight-up unappealing. Thanks to Ye Olde Internet, we're also genuinely harder to shock than we used to be. At the same time, the acceptable box that artists seem to need to fit into to be marketable, to achieve anything like mainstream success, feels smaller all the time.Read more »
