
A few days after I saw tUnE-yArDs open for Beirut at Music Hall of Williamsburg , I went to film the amazing woman behind it, Merrill Garbus, in Bed-Stuy, where she was staying at a friend's apartment for a short visit. She asked me if I had specific requests, and though I said she could play anything she wanted, she ended up picking three of my favorites, "Little Tiger", "News", and "Hatari", and one new song, "Harold". We tried the first performance out on the stoop, but it was amazingly noisy-multiple airplanes, spontaneous banging, and one "just [...]