tUnE-yArDs

'My Country': tUnE-yArDs Questions The American Dream

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 23:31:00 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2uW2PmVSe8

tUnE-yArDs: Tiny Desk Concert

Eleanor Kagan — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:00:00 +0000

I've been entranced by tUnE-yArDs for a long time. Bandleader Merrill Garbus makes music about rage and love; it wrestles with cultural inequality while also celebrating the joy of what it feels like to open your mouth and let out a wild sound.

Since her raw and lo-fi — but hardly low-energy — 2009 debut BiRd-BrAiNs, Garbus' one-woman band has expanded considerably, with each addition as carefully picked and positioned as each syncopated drum beat or vocal hocket.

tUnE-yArDs On World Cafe

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:47:00 +0000

Merrill Garbus, the woman behind tUnE-yArDs, began as a solo act, and her talent practically explodes out of every performance. She commands any space, especially from behind a set-up of a tom and snare drum, a ukulele, and her bare feet atop the loop pedals from which she builds her compositions.

tUnE-yArDs: Expanding And Grabbing Attention

NPR Staff — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 21:36:00 +0000

The music of tUnE-yArDs can be deceiving. Instruments transform; recordings morph; one voice can sound like four or five. The woman behind the project, Merrill Garbus, can certainly make a lot of noise on her own.