Merrill Garbus, aka tUnE-yArDs, recorded her 2009 debut BiRd-BrAiNs straight to a voice recorder using mostly a ukulele and voice, looped over and again. It was an intimate, lo-fi affair drawing as much from R&B and Afro-pop as folk and rock - and the album was beloved as her high-intensity live shows. Her new record, w h o k i l l, marries the high and the "lo" in a joyful noise. Merrill and her band join us to explain all that font-formatting, and to perform live in studio.

tUnE-yArDs is playing at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on Saturday, May 21st, 2011. More information here.

You can also watch the band perform in a Studio 360 webcast, live from The Greene Space, on Monday, May 23rd, 2011. More information here.