One week after premiering “Hypnotized” on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Tune-Yards have officially released the new single.
Directed by Tee Ken Ng, the video features endless loops of a train track in a room cluttered with items, from toy cars to television screens that show Merrill Garbus singing the track.
“Hypnotized” appears on the band’s upcoming album Sketchy., out on Friday. The song follows the singles “Hold Yourself” and “Nowhere Man.” “We hope the music brings energy and a strong wind of encouragement to those who are shouting and singing loudly for justice right now,...
Directed by Tee Ken Ng, the video features endless loops of a train track in a room cluttered with items, from toy cars to television screens that show Merrill Garbus singing the track.
“Hypnotized” appears on the band’s upcoming album Sketchy., out on Friday. The song follows the singles “Hold Yourself” and “Nowhere Man.” “We hope the music brings energy and a strong wind of encouragement to those who are shouting and singing loudly for justice right now,...
- 3/23/2021
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Tune-Yards frontwoman Merrill Garbus showcased the band’s recent song “Hypnotized” on Jimmy Kimmel Live with the help of a puppet. The song is off the band’s upcoming album Sketchy., out on March 26th.
As she sings the pulsating song, Garbus moves the puppet, created in her own image and wearing a similar dress. She’s joined by her band and backup singers, but the focus stays on the lookalike puppet, whom Garbus lays down on a table at the end of the performance.
Tune-Yards have released several songs so far from Sketchy.
As she sings the pulsating song, Garbus moves the puppet, created in her own image and wearing a similar dress. She’s joined by her band and backup singers, but the focus stays on the lookalike puppet, whom Garbus lays down on a table at the end of the performance.
Tune-Yards have released several songs so far from Sketchy.
- 3/18/2021
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
Tune-Yards delivered a joyous rendition of their recent single, “Hold Yourself,” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Monday, February 22nd.
The performance found Merrill Garbus, Nate Brenner, and their backing band channeling a kind of Seventies children’s show vibe, filling the set with bright monochrome colors. Garbus started the performance singing while sunk in a bunch of giant plush pillows, slowly digging herself out to belt the song’s final refrain while standing: “We all have doubts/We all have rage/We all have trouble being brave enough to turn the page.
The performance found Merrill Garbus, Nate Brenner, and their backing band channeling a kind of Seventies children’s show vibe, filling the set with bright monochrome colors. Garbus started the performance singing while sunk in a bunch of giant plush pillows, slowly digging herself out to belt the song’s final refrain while standing: “We all have doubts/We all have rage/We all have trouble being brave enough to turn the page.
- 2/23/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Tune-Yards have announced their fifth studio album Sketchy., out March 26th via 4Ad.
Ahead of the release, the duo shared the video for the new single “Hold Yourself.” Directed by Basa Studio, the clip features trippy animation that suits the synth-heavy track. “Parents they made us/They tried to raise us,” Merrill Garbus sings. “But betray us even when they try.”
“This song is about feeling really betrayed by my parents’ generation, and, at the same time, really seeing how we are betraying the future,” Garbus said in a statement.
Ahead of the release, the duo shared the video for the new single “Hold Yourself.” Directed by Basa Studio, the clip features trippy animation that suits the synth-heavy track. “Parents they made us/They tried to raise us,” Merrill Garbus sings. “But betray us even when they try.”
“This song is about feeling really betrayed by my parents’ generation, and, at the same time, really seeing how we are betraying the future,” Garbus said in a statement.
- 1/27/2021
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Tune-Yards are back with their first new single and music video in two years.
The upbeat song “Nowhere, Man” comes with a surreal visual, directed by Japhy Riddle and Callie Day, that sees Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner acting out their best Charlie Chaplin impressions. The video is reminiscent of the Nineties clips by Michel Gondry: stop-motion animation, kooky fantasy scenes (i.e. Garbus getting trapped in a television) and dancing portraits with different objects for heads. Because of Covid-19 quarantine, the video was shot in Garbus and Brenner’s garage.
The upbeat song “Nowhere, Man” comes with a surreal visual, directed by Japhy Riddle and Callie Day, that sees Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner acting out their best Charlie Chaplin impressions. The video is reminiscent of the Nineties clips by Michel Gondry: stop-motion animation, kooky fantasy scenes (i.e. Garbus getting trapped in a television) and dancing portraits with different objects for heads. Because of Covid-19 quarantine, the video was shot in Garbus and Brenner’s garage.
- 9/22/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
“Tomboy” filmmaker Lindsay Lindenbaum spent five years following four female drummers trying to make it in a male-dominated world.
Lindenbaum profiles Bobbye Hall, a drummer who started at Motown Records in the late ’60s and later toured with Bob Dylan. Samantha Maloney, whose obsession with MTV’s “Headbangers Ball” as a teenager led her to fall in love with rock music and the band Motley Crue. Ten years later, Maloney is performing on stage with Courtney Love, drumming for the alt-rock band Hole and living the dream as Motley Crue’s drummer. There’s Chase Noelle, a performer for the all-women punk band Boytoy. Lastly, Bo-Pah Sledge is the driving force behind The Sledge Grits Band, a girl group featuring her sisters.
“Tomboy” was headed to SXSW until the coronavirus pandemic led to the festival’s cancellation. Lindenbaum had worked tirelessly in the editing room to get the documentary locked...
Lindenbaum profiles Bobbye Hall, a drummer who started at Motown Records in the late ’60s and later toured with Bob Dylan. Samantha Maloney, whose obsession with MTV’s “Headbangers Ball” as a teenager led her to fall in love with rock music and the band Motley Crue. Ten years later, Maloney is performing on stage with Courtney Love, drumming for the alt-rock band Hole and living the dream as Motley Crue’s drummer. There’s Chase Noelle, a performer for the all-women punk band Boytoy. Lastly, Bo-Pah Sledge is the driving force behind The Sledge Grits Band, a girl group featuring her sisters.
“Tomboy” was headed to SXSW until the coronavirus pandemic led to the festival’s cancellation. Lindenbaum had worked tirelessly in the editing room to get the documentary locked...
- 3/31/2020
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
, “Babyteeth” is the kind of soft-hearted tearjerker that does everything in its power to rescue beauty from pain; the kind that feels like it would lose its balance and tip right off the screen if it stopped being able to walk the line between the two. And yet, despite a handful of shaky moments and a story that sounds like a supercut of all the worst tropes in contemporary independent cinema, Shannon Murphy’s primal and surefooted debut never falls into either mawkishness or sadism. It keeps you on your toes from the moment it starts, brings together a winsome but wounded group of people who are all struggling to slay the “tiny gods” in their heads, and then forces them through an ordeal that might just break their hearts. And yours.
Milla Finlay is a 16-year-old Australian high school girl who’s sick with an unspecified cancer, and has been for a long time.
Milla Finlay is a 16-year-old Australian high school girl who’s sick with an unspecified cancer, and has been for a long time.
- 9/4/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Futuristic NYC avant-rockers Battles have announced the upcoming release of their fourth album, Juice B Crypts. Due in October via Warp, the record finds the band scaling back to the duo of guitarist-keyboardist Ian Williams and drummer John Stanier, following the departure of bassist Dave Konopka in 2018. Much like the group’s second LP, 2011’s Gloss Drop, Juice B Crypts will feature a wealth of guest vocalists; one of those singers, Sal Principato of NYC dance-punk pioneers Liquid Liquid, appears on new single “Titanium 2 Step.”
The track pairs a lean,...
The track pairs a lean,...
- 8/7/2019
- by Hank Shteamer
- 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
Tune-Yards recorded a funky cover of Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” for Spotify’s Single Sessions.
The art-pop duo added a rhythmic force to the 1983 synth-pop hit, from Nate Brenner’s throbbing bassline to Merrill Garbus’ array of looped percussion and rattling electronic hi-hats. The frontwoman recreated Annie Lennox’s soulful vocal harmonies and improvs, highlighting her obvious musical influence.
The group also recorded a new version of their wild track “ABC 123,” which originally appeared on their January-issued fourth LP, I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life.
The art-pop duo added a rhythmic force to the 1983 synth-pop hit, from Nate Brenner’s throbbing bassline to Merrill Garbus’ array of looped percussion and rattling electronic hi-hats. The frontwoman recreated Annie Lennox’s soulful vocal harmonies and improvs, highlighting her obvious musical influence.
The group also recorded a new version of their wild track “ABC 123,” which originally appeared on their January-issued fourth LP, I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life.
- 8/30/2018
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
Boots Riley’s first feature film — a surrealist depiction of his hometown Oakland during capitalist wartime — came with a clamorous, giddy score by hometown heroes Tune-Yards; its layered vocal loops and stampeding beats kept up with each increasingly bizarre twist onscreen. The movie’s official soundtrack, which showcases Riley’s long-running hip-hop collective The Coup alongside other musical visionaries, is similarly vibrant; its 35 minutes of future funk burst with the confident audacity of Sorry‘s most jaw-dropping moments even as Riley and his fellow guests are describing personal and social problems.
- 8/22/2018
- by Maura Johnston
- Rollingstone.com
Lakeith Stanfield’s Moors project teams with Tune-Yards on the new song “Mango,” a collaboration borne out of the actor and indie rockers’ work on the Boots Riley-directed comedy Sorry to Bother You. Moors, Stanfield’s duo with Song Exploder creator Hrishikesh Hirway, also dropped a colorful new video for “Mango.”
“We became big Lakeith fans by spending hundreds of hours scoring Sorry to Bother You and watching his incredible acting skills. We met at the Sundance premiere, and Lakeith was really into the score so we talked about collaborating,...
“We became big Lakeith fans by spending hundreds of hours scoring Sorry to Bother You and watching his incredible acting skills. We met at the Sundance premiere, and Lakeith was really into the score so we talked about collaborating,...
- 8/10/2018
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Editors’ Pick: The Coup, Sorry to Bother You: The Soundtrack
Boots Riley’s feature-directing debut accompanied its surrealist depiction of life in Oakland during capitalist wartime with a clamorous, giddy score by hometown heroes Tune-Yards; the movie’s official soundtrack, which showcases his long-running hip-hop collective The Coup alongside other boldfaced names, is similarly vibrant. Star Lakeith Stanfield guests on the glam-rock-tinged opening stomper “Oyahytt” (an acronym for its chanted “Oh Yeah, Alright, Hell Yeah, That’s Tight” refrain, which is probably seconds away from being repurposed for arena pump-ups...
Boots Riley’s feature-directing debut accompanied its surrealist depiction of life in Oakland during capitalist wartime with a clamorous, giddy score by hometown heroes Tune-Yards; the movie’s official soundtrack, which showcases his long-running hip-hop collective The Coup alongside other boldfaced names, is similarly vibrant. Star Lakeith Stanfield guests on the glam-rock-tinged opening stomper “Oyahytt” (an acronym for its chanted “Oh Yeah, Alright, Hell Yeah, That’s Tight” refrain, which is probably seconds away from being repurposed for arena pump-ups...
- 7/27/2018
- by Maura Johnston, Jon Dolan, Mosi Reeves, Christopher R. Weingarten, Jonathan Bernstein, Kory Grow, Andy Greene and Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
There’s a sea change of originality to be found within Sorry to Bother You, the best film of the year so far. Not only is it the class of 2018 so far, it’s arguably one of the very best movies of the last five years. The past half decade has had some real great works, and this stands tall alongside them. Boots Riley makes a debut here that is one for the ages. This weekend, when Sorry to Bother You begins its theatrical run, a magical experience is hitting cinemas. It may turn some people off, but if you’re anything like me, it’s going to blow you away. Describing this movie is almost impossible, and that’s part of its charm. The plot synopsis is perfectly vague on IMDb, as it simply states: “In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success,...
- 7/5/2018
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
David Byrne leaned back in his chair and stared up at the ceiling of his charmingly cluttered Soho office: “I like to keep trying new things — it keeps me on my toes.”
Um, yeah. In the last decade alone, the 64-year-old art-rock legend has authored two books, released a pair of collaborative albums (one with Brian Eno, the other with Annie Clark), written a musical about Joan of Arc, turned a building into an instrument, scored a Shia Labeouf movie, and teamed up with Fatboy Slim to create a disco opera about the life and times of Imelda Marcos, the former First Lady of the Philippines.
For Byrne, a restless iconoclast who founded Talking Heads with some Risd chums in 1975 and has been expanding his horizons ever since, such unbridled creativity is just par for the course. He’s completely at the mercy of his muse — no matter where it...
Um, yeah. In the last decade alone, the 64-year-old art-rock legend has authored two books, released a pair of collaborative albums (one with Brian Eno, the other with Annie Clark), written a musical about Joan of Arc, turned a building into an instrument, scored a Shia Labeouf movie, and teamed up with Fatboy Slim to create a disco opera about the life and times of Imelda Marcos, the former First Lady of the Philippines.
For Byrne, a restless iconoclast who founded Talking Heads with some Risd chums in 1975 and has been expanding his horizons ever since, such unbridled creativity is just par for the course. He’s completely at the mercy of his muse — no matter where it...
- 3/3/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
In April 2015, documentarian brothers Turner and Bill Ross went to Dayton, Ohio, with David Byrne to witness the Color Guard World Championships, an annual competition that finds costumed teams blending interpretive dance with an acrobatic use of flags, sabers and rifles. Byrne had been fascinated by the event – equal parts balletic art and rigorous sport – ever since a team asked to license one of his instrumentals and sent him a DVD of their performance. But for the Rosses, who grew up 30 minutes from Dayton, the event might as well have been on Jupiter.
- 3/3/2017
- Rollingstone.com
The alt folk-rock outfit Thao & The Get Down Stay Down have just released their fourth album, A Man Alive, and "Astonished Man" is the first single from said album. The record was produced by fellow Bay-area musician and tUnE-yArDs leader Merrill Garbus, and she produces the heck out of this single. In fact, their entire album. It's even quirkier than the Talking Heads and her own band, and that's in a grand way. ...
- 3/15/2016
- by Dusty Wright
- www.culturecatch.com
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