Yo La Tengo‘s Hanukkah run at Bowery Ballroom is both a celebration and a marathon. Monday’s show (Night 6) wrapped up around 12:40 and everyone on stage was smiling but maybe a little tired and ready ...
“This band does not exist without this club,” singer-guitarist Ira Kaplan announced during Yo La Tengo‘s final appearance at the sainted Hoboken, New Jersey locale Maxwell’s last Saturday. (The venue ...
Asked when he started learning to play guitar, Ira Kaplan pinpoints the time as two years after he formed Yo La Tengo, the rock band that has been a critic’s darling since … well, before its leader ...
Yo La Tengo closed their eight-show Hanukkah at Hoboken, NJ’s Maxwell’s last night. The trio’s Hanukkah celebration featured a staggering number of guests, opening acts and comedians, including: The ...
Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley of Yo La Tengo in New York City, 2022. (Photo by Taylor Hill / Getty Images for New York Public Radio) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... From left to right: Ira Kaplan, Georgia Hubley and James McNew are Yo La Tengo, the beloved indie rock mainstays visiting the Ogden Theatre on Saturday.
When Yo La Tengo release their next album three years or so from now, no reviewer will think to mention Sonic Youth. Despite a shared fascination with how noise and melody can coincide and glance off ...
This is as scintillating as it gets: The opening and closing anecdotes of “Big Day Coming” revolve around typos. Shockingly, promoters and newspapers have had a chronic habit of misspelling the name ...
The Wexner Center for the Arts’ Next@Wex series focuses on bringing rising artists to Columbus, but this weekend will see the return of an already well-established group: Yo La Tengo. On Saturday, the ...
Musicians would have people believe that it’s the kiss of death to label their music. Yo La Tengo’s Ira Kaplan even prefers the discomfort of a label-less sound. “It runs the gamut. Some of it is very ...
For more than 30 years, Yo La Tengo have been one of indie-rock’s most consistent and beloved bands, turning out more than a dozen albums that range from ear-drum-bursting noise to hushed acoustic ...
For most rock bands, the covers album is an exercise in nostalgia or a contract-filling measure while a drained ­songwriting well refills. But for Hoboken, N.J., indie ­institution Yo La Tengo… By ...