Yo la Tengo News

As might be expected from their band's name, the members of the Rural Alberta Advantage grew up in the Canadian province of Alberta .

The first and hopefully last time we'll spend a morning typing "Do They Know It's Christmas" into iTunes.

Sixteen albums and twenty-seven years after the release of their first, self-titled studio album in 1982, Sonic Youth has made a career of wowing crowds all over the world in the promotion of their newest work.

Legacy, a new rock concert venue in Taipei, intends to raise the live music scene up a notch and provide a boost for Taiwanese pop music By David Chen STAFF REPORTER Friday, Dec 04, 2009, Page 13 PERFORMANCE NOTES: WHAT: Cui Jian in concert WHEN: Tonight at 8pm, doors at open at 7pm WHERE : Legacy Taipei, located at Huashan 1914 Creative Park , ...

November 20th, 2009 9:44am A Million Other Things One of the tricks Yo La Tengo have mastered over the years is placing their quiet, unassuming personalities in the context of familiar song styles that are typically characterized by more glamorous vocalists.

Sounding for all the world like the lost Icelandic kin of Spoona s Brett Daniel with his happen-now snarl and way with a jittery Amerindie hook, vocalist-guitarist Svavar Petur Eysteinsson could have grown up in Ohio, Nebraska or Texas, listening to the Breeders, Yo La Tengo, Uncle Tupelo, and any number of Homestead and Saddle Creek combos.

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.