On the night of the 2016 presidential election, Merrill Garbus was DJing. The singer, best known for her genre-bending musical project Tune-Yards, had spent much of that year learning to DJ. She read ...
Tune-Yards' I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life is out now. Here's a fact few white American musicians feel comfortable facing: every kind of American music, from Top-40 pop to high mountain ...
Merrill Garbus could sing in Esperanto through sixteen vocal filters and it still wouldn’t stop listeners from parsing her lyrics. Nonetheless, with her Tune-Yards project, lyrics matter less than ...
The 23rd Annual Tibet House Benefit Concert went down at Carnegie Hall last night (2/21) with Jim James, Merrill Garbus (aka tUnE-yArDs), Ariel Pink, Patti Smith, Rahzel, Tenzin Choegyal, Jesse Smith, ...
[Ed. note: In January 2018, Garbus and her bandmates released their fourth album, I Can Feel You Creep into My Private Life. Garbus and Nate Brenner's fifth album, Sketchy, was released in 2021] As an ...
BRATTLEBORO — It's been more than two decades since Merrill Garbus lived, worked and "played" here — selling coffee at Mocha Joe's Cafe, staging puppetry with the Sandglass Theater of Putney, going to ...
Merrill Garbus came to Vermont after earning a degree in theater at Smith College. She was ready to begin her career in performing arts that, more than a decade later, would have her leading the ...
Merrill Garbus’ refusal to stay fixated on one musical idea for any extended period Saturday at a sold-out Thalia Hall appeared to parallel the impatience of modern culture. The New England native, ...
It’s tough to upstage the colorful art-pop tracks Merrill Garbus constructs as Tune-Yards — but on a rainy November evening in Brooklyn, current events seem to have done just that. As the openers warm ...