Yo la Tengo News

Yo La Tengo first appeared on Mountain Stage 18 years ago; it returns armed with songs from its latest studio album, Popular Songs .

Posted in Books , Internet , Music by Martina Sheehan on November 5th, 2009 at 3:50 pm Found magazine co-creator Jason Bitner's latest book and web project, Cassette from my Ex , inspired me to dust off a late-90s mix tape from an old college boyfriend.

Band Aid. Band Aid II. Band Aid 20. And now... Do They Know It's Christmas is going to have a fourth incarnation - organised by Fucked Up .

Mystery Girl Presents Mystery Girl, Galesburg and 95bFM are pleased to be bringing to New Zealand a ' for the first time in ten years a ' the band that has a cult following even the Mormons envy, a band that influences the influential and renders the critics uncritical - yes thata TMs right, it is Yo La Tengo.

Yo La Tengo's artistic philosophy becomes clearer in Ira Kaplan's Zen-like calm.

Yo La Tengo's artistic philosophy becomes clearer in Ira Kaplan's Zen-like calm.

Ah, washing up on Treasure Isle late in the day Sunday, Oct. 18, seemed like the way - though it was a bummer to miss Vetiver, Beirut, et al.

For the second annual Treasure Island music festival, Filter attended day two of the weekend-long festivities held on the landfill island in the San Francisco Bay.

The Brooklyn-based indie rockers of MGMT are officially within our lovely city. Tonight the duo will play a sold-out show at the Independent and tomorrow they headline the highly anticipated first night of the Treasure Island Festival on um, Treasure Island.

C ALL IT the curse of consistency: any band can take a long hiatus before being welcomed back with open arms upon the release of a so-called "comeback" record.

Yo La Tengo's new CD is a keeper. Eclectic without being dilettantish, the album encases everything from a lilting folk-pop song and a garage rocker to a Motown-ish track and a 15-minute space jam.

Covering acoustic classics and crossbreeding indie-rock with folktronica, YLT has been an indie favorite for 20-something years.

The past provides comfort for many indie-rock elders; witness the recent spate of reunions, bands touring on "best album" performances, and artists rifling through back catalogs for new reissues.

Three peas in a pod: Yo La Tengo has made for a cohesive, ever-curious musical unit over its quarter century as a band.

When: Sunday, Oct. 11 at 9 p.m. Where: Belly Up Aspen, 450 S. Galena St. Opening act: Cheap Time Tickets: $30 ENLARGE New Jersey rock trio Yo La Tengo - Ira Kaplan, Georgia Hubley and James McNew - performs Sunday, Oct.

Cat's Cradle - You've likely noticed that what's now loosely termed indie rock doesn't sound or look much like it did just two decades ago.

Yo La Tengo live! ilentertainer Oct 07, 2009 As the Hoboken-based indie-rock veterans Yo La Tengo cruised through "Sugarcube" Tuesday night, it was hard not to think of the song's video and think that this band still haven't learned to rock properly.

Yo La Tengo Popular Songsters: Yo La Tengo wish you'd draw your own conclusions.

Hoboken , New Jersey's Yo La Tengo have always seemed like a trio of hip older uncles and aunts: deeply dippy, good-hearted musos trailing their collective muse wherever it happens to lead them, from fuzz-bombshells to soundtrack abstractions to recorded-under-an-alias classic-rock covers to retro-and-loving-it-leaning indie-pop. Yo La Tengo mean ...

Yo La Tengo, the alt-rock indie band with a cult following the size of L. Ron Hubbard's, is playing tonight at the Vic Theatre for those who didn't get enough at Pitchfork.