Articles tagged "yo la tengo"

Events Review

Yo La Tengo: 6 October 2009 - Chicago

by Rory O'Connor

[5.Nov.09] :. Even in the moments when they seem to be teetering on the edge of control, like during one of Ira’s guitar tirades, every single note and squall of feedback feels necessary.

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Sound Affects

Verse-Chorus-Verse: An Interview with Jad Fair

by PC Muñoz

[2.Nov.09] :. Artist/producer PC Muñoz mines for gems and grills the greats.

Sound Affects

 

Music Review

Yo La Tengo: Popular Songs

by Craig Carson

[9.Sep.09] :. Yo La Tengo's Popular Songs: Recommended for all weather types, day or night.

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Mixed Media

Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs (new album / MP3)

by PopMatters Staff

[27.Jul.09] :. Yo La Tengo Popular Songs (Matador) Releasing: 8 September (US) SONG LIST 01 Here to Fall 01 Avalon or Someone Very Similar 01 By Two’s 01 Nothing to Hide 01 Periodically Double or...

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Music Review

Condo Fucks: Fuckbook

by Spencer Tricker

[2.Apr.09] :. Do you remember Rock 'n' Roll radio?

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Mixed Media

The Music of Adventureland (stream)

by Thomas Britt

[25.Mar.09] :. Greg Mottola’s upcoming Adventureland extends his Superbad interest in awkward young coupling, but this time around he’s chosen a more romantic approach. The wall-to-wall...

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Yo La Tengo + Oneida

by Chad Berndtson

[19.Jan.09] :. Yo La Tengo, Hanukkah 2008, Night One, the Twitter version: Janet Weiss for the whole show on second drumkit, Spoon's Britt Daniel for the encore, opening acts Oneida (music) and Paul F. Tompkins (comedy), Aesop Rock behind the music collection, and all proceeds to the Jubilee Center.

 

Juno (Deluxe): Music From the Motion Picture

by Chris Conaton

[1.Dec.08] :. How to capitalize on one of the few successful movie soundtracks of the past decade? Re-release it a year later with some "b-sides!"

 

Yo La Tengo

by Kevin Pearson

[8.Nov.07] :. Billed as the Freewheeling Yo La Tengo, this stripped-down tour/Q+A session underscores the fact that, whatever you think this band to be, it's often something else entirely.

 

Yo La Tengo

by Anita Schillhorn van Veen

[7.Nov.07] :. “In one interview, Georgia, you talked about the beauty that’s found in accidents.” From behind a modest drum set, Ms. Georgia Hubley responds: "I did?"

 

Yo La Tengo not afraid to be nebulous

by Len Righi [The Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.)]

[16.Feb.07] :. It is Yo La Tengo dogma, and James McNew, who has been the stalwart indie-rock act’s bassist for 15 of the band’s 23-year existence, recites it almost reflexively, albeit somewhat...

 

Yo La Tengo

by Eddie Ciminelli

[22.Oct.06] :. Spinning rims, 22-ouncers, and a lesson on listening.

 

Yo La Tengo

by Eddie Ciminelli

[28.Sep.06] :. Spinning rims, 22-ouncers, and a lesson on listening.

 
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Music Review

Yo La Tengo: I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass

by Michael Franco

[12.Sep.06] :. Reviewing this album is like trying to describe a cool and sunny Sunday afternoon -- no liberal expenditure of adjectives and verbs can recreate the experience of just sitting and taking it all in while relaxing.

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Yo La Tengo: Prisoners of Love: A Smattering of Scintillating Senescent Songs 1985-2003

by Evan Rytlewski

[30.Mar.05] :. For longtime fans, this Yo La Tengo retrospective offers an optional third-disc of rarities and outtakes, and for uninitiated listeners, it's the perfect introduction to one of indie-rock's most inviting -- and, sadly, most stigmatized -- bands.

 

Yo La Tengo: Today Is the Day

by Jon Langmead

[15.Mar.04] :. Georgia, Ira, and James get all “Blue Line Swinger” on us on this EP’s title track, a revved-up version of the Summer Sun song. It’s all fuzz guitars and plinky,...

 

Yo La Tengo

by Jennifer Bendery

[14.Oct.03] :. Speaker-sizzling reverb and straight-faced line dancing were just some of the highly entertaining antics of indie band favorite Yo La Tengo at this year’s Austin City Limits Music...

 

Yo La Tengo: Summer Sun

by Robert Horning

[8.Apr.03] :. Those who found the melancholy mood music of ...And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out dull will be advised to stay clear of Yo La Tengo’s latest, Summer Sun which treads the...

 

    Yo La Tengo: Danelectro

by Andrew Johnson

[13.Nov.00] :. What’s most interesting about Yo La Tengo’s new EP release Danelectro is how thoroughly it is about fleshing out musical ideas. The three Yo La Tengo tracks, “Danelectro...

 

Yo La Tengo: And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out

by Thomas Swiss

Yo La Tengo can rave-up with the best of them. The band can pass—as it has over the past fifteen years—as an art/noise band. But it can also play some of the quietest, most melodic,...