Meg Remy, who performs as U.S. Girls, has tied a bow on the past five years of her life with the release of Lives, a surprise concert album she just released. The record, available on major streaming services, features music she performed with three different iterations of the U.S. Girls live band.
She included recordings of songs by what she calls “the Poem Band” version of U.S. Girls, which focused on “outsider jazz-funk,” as well as the “Heavy Light Band,” which focused on female vocal harmonies. The newest version,...
She included recordings of songs by what she calls “the Poem Band” version of U.S. Girls, which focused on “outsider jazz-funk,” as well as the “Heavy Light Band,” which focused on female vocal harmonies. The newest version,...
- 11/1/2023
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
The Future Of Music Interview is a Q&a in which our favorite artists and producers share their vision of what’s next, weighing in on everything from AI to emerging scenes to the artists inspiring them the most.
Meg Remy has been imagining radical new futures in her music for more than a decade, first on noisy, arty releases like 2011’s U.S. Girls on Kraak, and later on subtly subversive pop dreams like 2018’s In a Poem Unlimited and this year’s Bless This Mess. But the artist behind U.
Meg Remy has been imagining radical new futures in her music for more than a decade, first on noisy, arty releases like 2011’s U.S. Girls on Kraak, and later on subtly subversive pop dreams like 2018’s In a Poem Unlimited and this year’s Bless This Mess. But the artist behind U.
- 6/28/2023
- by Simon Vozick-Levinson
- Rollingstone.com
Five Inspirations is a series in which we ask directors to share five things that shaped and informed their work.U.S. Girls is the experimental pop project of Meg Remy; her eighth album, Bless This Mess, was released in February. This Sunday, April 16, Mubi is pleased to present a screening of Dennis Hopper's Out of the Blue curated by Remy, in collaboration with 4Ad and the Roxy Cinema in New York. She will appear in person for a program of new music videos and a Q&a. Below, Remy shares five cinema-inflected inspirations on Bless This Mess.Inspiration #1Treat Williams as Arnold Friend in Smooth TalkCommitment to one’s role.Inspiration #2Jane B. par Agnès V.Adaptation is evolution.Inspiration #3The transfer of old VHS tapes found in a boxRetrospection is painful and empowering.Inspiration #4My Last Sigh: The Autobiography of Luis BuñuelYou have to learn how...
- 4/14/2023
- MUBI
Would you believe us if we said a hologram sponsored by the government of Ontario was one of the best things we saw on the second full day of SXSW 2023? There were plenty of flesh-and-blood performances that knocked our socks off, too, as the festival hit its stride with artists big and small from across genres and decades packing the venues that make Austin one of the greatest music cities in the world. Here are our top picks from Wednesday, March 15.
U.S. Girls Make an Appearance Via Hologram U.
U.S. Girls Make an Appearance Via Hologram U.
- 3/16/2023
- by Cat Cardenas, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Christian Hoard, Leah Lu, Angie Martoccio and Simon Vozick-Levinson
- Rollingstone.com
Blessings are imminent, because U.S. Girls — the indie pop project of Meg Remy — return today, February 24th with the new album Bless This Mess. It’s out via 4Ad.
Turns out, while Remy was working on the follow-up to U.S. Girls’ great 2020 album Heavy Light, she was also working on something else: Twin baby boys. With a title that seems to poke fun at maternally-targeted, mass-produced Hobby Lobby wall decor, Bless This Mess captures the extremes of Remy’s emotions as a first-time mom and the nuances of procreation.
The album was made with the help of a few notable guests, including Alex Frankel of Holy Ghost! and Roger Manning Jr. of Jellyfish and Beck. One of the album’s audio engineers was Remy’s frequent collaborator Maximilian Turnbull, who just so happens to also be her husband and co-parent. Many of the takes were recorded while Remy...
Turns out, while Remy was working on the follow-up to U.S. Girls’ great 2020 album Heavy Light, she was also working on something else: Twin baby boys. With a title that seems to poke fun at maternally-targeted, mass-produced Hobby Lobby wall decor, Bless This Mess captures the extremes of Remy’s emotions as a first-time mom and the nuances of procreation.
The album was made with the help of a few notable guests, including Alex Frankel of Holy Ghost! and Roger Manning Jr. of Jellyfish and Beck. One of the album’s audio engineers was Remy’s frequent collaborator Maximilian Turnbull, who just so happens to also be her husband and co-parent. Many of the takes were recorded while Remy...
- 2/24/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
U.S. Girls are back with one more new song, “Tux (Your Body Fills Me, Boo),” before the release of their next album, Bless This Mess, out this Friday, Feb. 24, via 4Ad.
The glittering disco gem — which arrives with a music video starring the dancer Libydo — finds U.S. Girls’ Meg Remy singing from the perspective of a tuxedo languishing in a closet, yearning to be donned once more: “I was born to be worn/custom fit to make you feel legit,” Remy sings, “I was expensive, excessive/Now you...
The glittering disco gem — which arrives with a music video starring the dancer Libydo — finds U.S. Girls’ Meg Remy singing from the perspective of a tuxedo languishing in a closet, yearning to be donned once more: “I was born to be worn/custom fit to make you feel legit,” Remy sings, “I was expensive, excessive/Now you...
- 2/21/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
The breast pump was waiting for Meg Remy at her Toronto home when returned from the hospital with twins. A friend had given it to her, even though Remy wasn’t initially sure if she’d use the machine. But with two newborns to feed, she charged it up, flipped the switch — and out came a guttural womp.
“The minute I heard it, I was like, what is this fucking sound?” says Remy, 37, bandleader and creative force behind the always-inventive, always-evolving, always-searching pop outfit U.S. Girls. “I just knew...
“The minute I heard it, I was like, what is this fucking sound?” says Remy, 37, bandleader and creative force behind the always-inventive, always-evolving, always-searching pop outfit U.S. Girls. “I just knew...
- 1/10/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
U.S. Girls turn a kitschy suburban household phrase into a stunning alt-pop ballad on their new song, “Bless This Mess.”
The song harkens back to the diva ballads of yesteryear, with Meg Remy crooning about life’s constant complications and entanglements over a delicate electric piano. The track also arrives with a characteristically unique music video featuring decades-old video footage of Remy that the artist Evan Gordon manipulated to look as if she was singing the new song.
“Before camera phones, the family camcorder was often the mirror tool...
The song harkens back to the diva ballads of yesteryear, with Meg Remy crooning about life’s constant complications and entanglements over a delicate electric piano. The track also arrives with a characteristically unique music video featuring decades-old video footage of Remy that the artist Evan Gordon manipulated to look as if she was singing the new song.
“Before camera phones, the family camcorder was often the mirror tool...
- 10/25/2022
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Meg Remy’s musical project U.S. Girls have dropped the trippy new video “And Yet It Moves/Y Se Mueve,” a track off their recent album Heavy Light.
Created by Evan Gordon, the animated video features vivid, swirling images with contorted faces and blinking lights. “What a joy not to know/The day to day to day, day, day, day,” Remy sings. “You can’t imagine what it costs/There’s no key to get inside.”
“And Yet It Moves/Y Se Mueve” follows the videos for “Iou,” “4 American Dollars” and “Overtime.
Created by Evan Gordon, the animated video features vivid, swirling images with contorted faces and blinking lights. “What a joy not to know/The day to day to day, day, day, day,” Remy sings. “You can’t imagine what it costs/There’s no key to get inside.”
“And Yet It Moves/Y Se Mueve” follows the videos for “Iou,” “4 American Dollars” and “Overtime.
- 8/26/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
U.S. Girls, the ever-evolving musical project of Meg Remy, has released a new video for “Iou,” off the band’s most recent album, Heavy Light.
Directed by Colin Medley, the video comprises footage from the recording sessions for Heavy Light, which took place way back in the pre-covid-19 days at Hotel 2 Tango in Montreal. The clip captures the collaborative process upon which Heavy Light was built, as the footage jumps between shots of Remy and other musicians performing “Iou” and intimate, behind-the-scenes sequences of everyone chatting, laughing and figuring...
Directed by Colin Medley, the video comprises footage from the recording sessions for Heavy Light, which took place way back in the pre-covid-19 days at Hotel 2 Tango in Montreal. The clip captures the collaborative process upon which Heavy Light was built, as the footage jumps between shots of Remy and other musicians performing “Iou” and intimate, behind-the-scenes sequences of everyone chatting, laughing and figuring...
- 7/30/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Tonight in Los Angeles, U.S. Girls’ Meg Remy and Tune-Yards’ Merrill Garbus are taking part in a special Q&A on the role of art in the modern age. Presented by Rolling Stone and moderated by Rs contributor Jenny Eliscu, the conversation is happening at NeueHouse’s Hollywood location beginning at 9:30 P.M. Est / 6:30 P.M. Pst, and you can livestream it on Facebook Live. (Update: At the event, two men performed lines provided by Garbus and Remy, turning the Q&A into a surreal performance art...
- 10/17/2018
- by Simon Vozick-Levinson
- Rollingstone.com
U.S. Girls’ Meg Remy and Tune-Yards’ Merrill Garbus will take part in a wide-ranging Q&A next week at Los Angeles’ NeueHouse, presented by Rolling Stone and moderated by Rs contributor and SiriusXM host Jenny Eliscu. You can watch a livestream of their conversation at RollingStone.com, starting on October 16th at 9:15 P.M. Est / 6:15 P.M. Pst.
Tune-Yards and U.S. Girls are embarking on a joint tour this month, kicking off on October 18th in Los Angeles and running through November 2nd in Queens, New York.
Tune-Yards and U.S. Girls are embarking on a joint tour this month, kicking off on October 18th in Los Angeles and running through November 2nd in Queens, New York.
- 10/10/2018
- by Simon Vozick-Levinson
- Rollingstone.com
Meg Remy is walking through Manchester, England, when she spots a beer garden full of revelers. This gets the Chicago-raised, Toronto-based musician, who records as U.S. Girls, thinking about their apparent apathy toward the sorry state of the world. “How would you even begin to explain to the beer garden people why they should give up a system they think is working perfectly?” she asks.
Remy, 33, has been refining her answer to that question over a decade of radically tinged Diy music. She unveiled U.S. Girls as a...
Remy, 33, has been refining her answer to that question over a decade of radically tinged Diy music. She unveiled U.S. Girls as a...
- 7/18/2018
- by Judy Berman
- Rollingstone.com
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