Tune-Yards’ Merrill Garbus on How She Makes Her Signature Sounds, Live in Studio

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4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Oakland based art-pop band Tune-Yards is widely loved for their complex and funky rhythms, layers of sound, thrillingly dynamic vocals, and thought provoking lyrics. The duo, Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner, have just released a new album, “Better Dreaming,” praised by critics as highly danceable and jubilant while, as always, grappling with the state of the world. Merrill Garbus joins us in the studio for a new album listening party and to demonstrate how she creates her powerhouse sound. Guests: Merrill Garbus, singer, musician, Tune-Yards - newest album is "Better Dreaming" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.3	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal, and we're back with a Friday music show. Today we have a singer who's been one of my favorite musicians for almost 15 years, Merrill Garbus of tune yards. She's a performer who uses her voice to open up new pathways to even thinking about voices. The wild loops and rhythms of tune yards capture the dislocations and percussion
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