Tune-Yards Releases ‘Real Thing’ Video; Announces Limited Concert Dates

Tune-Yards

New York – Indie pop duo Tune-Yards have a new video for “Real Thing” from their recent album Nikki Nack on 4AD.

Tune-Yards has also confirmed a string of December dates including four intimate nights at Brooklyn’s Music Hall of Williamsburg fromDecember 4-7 and a performance at LA’s Wiltern Theatre on December 10.  A limited ticket pre-sale has begun at the group’s website.  When Best New Bands saw them earlier this summer, our reviewer called them “captivating.”

The band is in the midst of a 15-date North American fall tour and just wrapped the first weekend of the Austin City Limits Festival with a set the Austin Chronicle said: “electrified with Technicolor energy.”

Of the new video, the group’s Merrill Garbus said: “I believe Real Thing was the one song I didn’t want to make a video for.  It has too many images of its own in the lyrics, and could mean so many different things for different listeners…I love leaving room for audiences to paint their own mental pictures.  What changed my mind is wanting so much for this particular song to be heard by more people.

We chose (director) Tom Jobbins’ idea because it framed the sometimes heavy lyrics in a Charlie Chaplin-like, humorous idea of me being a box of body parts in a factory.  A simple and light-hearted backdrop for some complex and weighty ideas. 

Tune-Yards December Dates:

Dec 4 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg (w/ Cibo Matto and Beep!)

Dec 5 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg (w/ Cibo Matto and Beep!)

Dec 6 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg (w/ Cibo Matto and Beep!)

Dec 7 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg (w/ Cibo Matto and Beep!)

Dec 10 – Los Angeles, CA – Wiltern (w/ Cibo Matto)

Dec 11 – Oakland, CA – Fox Theatre (w/ Cibo Matto)

Dec 12 – Portland, OR – Roseland Theatre (w/ Cibo Matto)

Dec 13 – Seattle, WA – Moore Theatre (w/ Cibo Matto)