Yo la Tengo News

Since the summer of 2006, the trapezoid-shaped Union Park on the Near West Side has hosted what has become one of the most important indie rock events in all the land: the annual Pitchfork Music Festival.

Dylan Gilbert Charlotte's true gem in the indie scene, Dylan Gilbert is on his way to making his name familiar to the world's lips.

"Man, do not write this," said Bruce Finkelman, owner of the Empty Bottle on Western Avenue.

Matt Dentler at indieWIRE is quite impressed by the "cool shows" in comedy, music and film, at 92YTribeca, and seems genuinely surprised that this all happens while being located in - " gasp! - " NOT Brooklyn! Kids these days.

Hometown: Baltimore, Md. Band Members: Andy Stack , Jenn Wasner For Fans Of: Yo La Tengo, Pixies, Guided by Voices "I like bands that you have to look a bit to find it, where you have to really listen," Jenn Wasner says of the music that moves her.

To celebrate the half-way point of 2009, this weekA Paste A staffers are counting down their favorite albums and songs of the year .

That Pitchforkmedia must be doing something right; 19,000 people a day hit up their Festival for 18 hours of music over two days, despite some serious heat and humidity.

Rising stars It Hugs Back play the Smash and Grab club night at Proud Camden tonight.

By Scott Lapatine & Amrit Singh Sets from Jimmy Buffet and Bruce Springsteen bookended a day of mellow, familiar dadrock with more mass appeal than the inscrutable indie pop that dominated Friday.

Sound: Couple Kevin and Anita Robinson blend classic rock, folk and psychedelic sounds into an indie-rock stew filled with big hooks, guitar fuzz and lo-fi noise.

Earlier this year, the occasionally-venerable Matador Records released a record by the Condo F**ks, a wink-wink 'comedy' rock set in which the perpetrators were those wacky pranksters in genre-hopping indie-pop institution Yo La Tengo.

Indie rock forefathers Yo La Tengo are gearing up to release Popular Songs , on September 8 via Matador.

Oneida @ The Yard 8/29/08 Welcome to Rated O , the triple album and second installment of Oneida 's much-anticipated "Thank Your Parents" triptych of releases.

Pitchfork Music Festival Chicago, Ill. Friday, July 17- Sunday, July 19 Held each summer in Chicago's Union Park, this three-day festival features some of the best-established and up-and-coming indie acts.

Matador Records lost almost every vinyl master recording of albums its artists released before May 2006 after American record processing plant 33 1/3 went bankrupt.

The roadtrip to Chicago is just shy of eight hours, and if Bonnaroo's four-day onslaught of drugs, music and heat isn't enough to satisfy your hedonistic needs, there is always Chi-town's competing Pitchfork and Lollapalooza festivals.

Art-rock legends old and new lead to a weekend featuring a lot of dark and disturbing roots music.

You might remember Condo Fucks from an advertisement slipped into the liner notes of Yo La Tengo's 1997 album I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One.

Hidden under reverb and aggressive analog production, the first sung lyrics on You Can Have What You Want belie what seems to be a cheery record title: "Once we walked in the sunlight three years ago this July." Full of wistful regret, Jason Robert Quever, the main dude behind Papercuts, fills his songs with a pleasant, late-'90s slacker ...

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