On Nikki Nack, Merrill Garbus worries over the notion that she's just an accumulation of her influences, and she fights back wonderfully. tUnE-yArDs: Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing tUnE-yArDs is ...
It’s always impressive when an artist lights up a room on a Monday night, and on Monday, Sept. 29, Tune-Yards did just that. After an excellent opening set from jazz drummer/producer Kassa Overall, ...
Though Tune-Yards' sixth album probably won't top any sales charts, "it will definitely make you get up and dance," said Attila Peter in The Line of Best Fit. Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner, partners ...
Elephant & Castle is David Reep, a man who has the ability to create music that is hazy and atmospheric and will make you sink into your lazy chair never to be heard from again. And that’s a good ...
One of the more alternative rosters of cover bands in recent memory performed at Bowery Ballroom last night, with rising experimental outfit tUnE-YArDs ending the show with a somewhat misplaced ...
The eclectic pop duo Tune-Yards — comprised of the married couple Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner — have played the majority of their Pittsburgh shows at Mr. Smalls Theatre in Millvale. They’ll add ...
Tune-Yards are releasing a new album, Better Dreaming, on May 16 via 4AD. Now they have shared its second single, “Heartbreak,” via a music video directed by the band’s Merrill Garbus. Watch it below.
The good: American singer/songwriter and Boygenius member Lucy Dacus jumps to major label Geffen and releases her fourth. The bad: Longtime fans may detect a certain “safeness,” but nothing inherently ...
The name of Merrill Garbus' musical project is tUnE-yArDs. It is not Tune-Yards. Garbus herself is lenient about this distinction, but the wacky lettering hints importantly at the ambitions of the ...
There’s nothing like that first listen of an album by songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/wizard Merrill Garbus—the mastermind behind Oakland, Calif., globally influenced folk-rock band Tune-yards—when ...
Tune-Yards are releasing a new album, Better Dreaming, this Friday via 4AD. Now they have shared its third single, “How Big is the Rainbow,” via a music video. Dominic Mercurio directed the video, ...