St. Vincent / tUnE-yArDs @ Fox Theater

Fox Theater - Oakland · Tuesday, April 24, 2012 from 7:30 PM to 10:30 PM

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ST. VINCENT and TUNE-YARDS will perform at Oakland's beautiful Fox Theater on April 24th!

Presale tickets for ST. VINCENT and TUNE-YARDS will be available Thursday, January 19th at 10am until Saturday, January 21st at 11:59pm through Fox Theater's official website, http://www.thefoxoakland.com/
*The presale password is LAYOVER

Tickets go on-sale to the general public on Sunday, January 22nd at 10am.

Listen to ST. VINCENT:
http://www.myspace.com/stvincent

Listen to TUNE-YARDS:
http://tune-yards.com/

ABOUT ST. VINCENT & TUNE-YARDS:
Strange Mercy, the beguiling new album from St. Vincent, is an unsparing examination of personal catharsis cloaked in some of the most sublime music of Annie Clark's career. "Many of the songs are about wanting relief from pain, and searching high and low for release," attests Clark. Such powerful emotions prompted - demanded, really - not just a bracingly candid lyrical style but a new musical approach. St. Vincent's acclaimed 2007 debut album Marry Me was created almost entirely on a laptop; the exquisite follow-up, 2009's Actor, was a collection of arrangements fashioned into ornately structured songs. Strange Mercy, she says, is different. "I just wrote the songs first and didn't worry about the embellishments. On the last album, I could play about three songs by myself on guitar. On this album, I can play every song that way."

w h o k i l l, the sophomore album by Merrill Garbus tUnE-yArDs, is a thrill for fans of the live show that left most stunned in 2010. No longer is her artful songwriting and soulful voice obscured by digital fuzz as it often was on her solo debut, BiRd-BrAiNs. Transplanting herself from Montreal to sunny Oakland, California, while touring almost non-stop for over two years, Merrill has stripped tUnE-yArDs away to a more precise, concentrated and vivid sound. w h o k i l l retains the honesty of the lonely bedroom confessional characteristic of her early work, but with the addition of the fangs, claws and dented metal of its new surroundings.

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