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 ...

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 ...

There was a time when Merrill Garbus believed small actions could make a big difference in the world. Now, she’s not so sure. Part of the indie duo Tune-Yards, the Oakland, California, musician is ...

"With all the compassion in my heart, I just want to say to white people sampling others' music: what you're engaging in is colonialism," Merrill Garbus says. "Name it for what it is." Here’s a fact ...