Fade by Yo La Tengo is one of about half a dozen albums released in the first weeks of the new year which are pretty certain to be in my top ten come year's end (see also: Pictish Trail, Rick Redbeard, Lady Lazarus, Hookworms and Eels). It's been a fertile six weeks or so. When I've brought this up in the pub others have disagreed with me, but I honestly didn't think Yo La Tengo's two previous albums, Popular Songs and the brilliantly-titled I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your [...]
Yo La Tengo: Fade - Thirty years is an incredible amount of time for anyone to be doing anything. If Yo La Tengo were union workers they would be eligible for retirement with full pension. However, this band is doing no such thing. After such a long and storied career, Yo La Tengo is still producing new music; Fade is their thirteenth studio album. While the title brings about a somber notion of a band that may be in their twilight years, the content contradicts those notions immediately. Fade is not an experimental [...]
Yo La Tengo plays their acoustic set; photo by Sam Libowsky BY JORDAN MAINZER It was a big day coming. On Friday, February 1st, at the Vic Theater in Chicago, Yo La Tengo treated an eager audience to about two and a half hours of material spanning their almost thirty-year-old career. Playing most of their excellent new album Fade and a variety of cuts from some of their classic albums of the past fifteen years- I Can Hear the Heart Beating as [...]
You shouldn't have trouble finding an appealing show to go to this week. Here are my picks: Ty Segall, The Phoenix, Feb 6 One of the artists riding a gigantic wave of buzz into 2013 is American multi-instrumentalist Ty Segall . His latest record, Twins , found itself on countless year-end lists. Yo La Tengo, Lee's Palace, Feb 9 Reliable old Yo La Tengo are back with a new album Fade [...]
We're recovering from the My Bloody Valentine angst that took over the internet last night. Did you get a copy? Sounds like it was recorded in 1993, at least we know it was written at that time. Well, Loveless is often referred to as 'timeless'. The shoegaze pioneers come out okay on MBV. It's not as epic as some fans would expect, but is anything? Anyway, it's Sunday and we have our usual runabout with songs and videos. In this edition: We preview Johnno Casson's Window Dressing remix album; tracks from Caveman, Grudle Bay, Knocking Ghost [...]
Original Image by Valerie Check out the January 2013 mixtape below. It features music by new discoveries shared on the blog like The Delphines , Zig Zags , Indiana , Hundred Visions , Shakey Graves , CHVRCHES [...]
There are a number of things that make a Yo La Tengo live show great. First, the band has an incredible catalog dating back to the '80s. You're likely to hear extended versions of some classic songs and these guys always throw in some unexpected covers, ranging from Johnny Cash to the Rolling Stones to Devo . Yo La Tengo plays the Vic tonight. The band will be playing some songs off its very good new release, Fade . See the video below for (most of) a recent set played [...]
This is the week the music-video gods finally awoke from their slumber. I had to leave so much good stuff off the list this week: self-deprecating superstar send-ups , excitingly one-note punk-rock rave-ups , disturbing dystopian visions , intense adoreableness , experimental visions that didn't quite work , the Lonely Island's big return . The five I ended up with below are just straight killer. Read More...
Just a few weeks since its release, critics have already hailed Yo La Tengo's 13th full-length album Fade as one of the band's best in years, harkening back to epic cult favorites such as I Ca...
While Georgia Hubley sang "Cornelia & Jane," last night at the Pageant I thought about her band's Twitter handle, @therealYLT, and wondered if I expected to see the real Yo La Tengo or my imaginar... Continue reading "Yo La Tengo - The Pageant - 1/31/13" >
Toronto concerts worth knowing about in February, 2013. I know these things about February: 1) it's the month of purification (that's why Purity Ring are coming through town), 2) SAD reaches its peak, 3) Valentine's Day is a Hallmark holiday and thus a complete waste of time, and 4) "leaplings" are the luckiest people around as they age far more slowly than the rest of us. Man, who wouldn't want to be a leapling? Doesn't it just sound so cool? Anyway, here's what else I know. [...]
The SOTO inbox is always full of cool stuff that never gets to see the light of day on the actual site, and I’d like to change that. So, every Friday I’ll be posting the best album streams and videos that were sent my way during the week. Take a scroll and find something worth remembering. FULL ALBUM STREAMS Veronica Falls - Waiting For Something To Happen Feeding People - Island Universe Alexander Spit - A Breathtaking Trip To That Otherside [...]
Similar to our weekly collection of MP3s , we decided to start ranking each week's best videos. So, from here on out, our favorite weekly videos will be ordered in quality from 10-1. Who reigns champ this week? Grab some candy, sit back, and find out. 10. Woodpigeon – “Edinborough” Finally, an answer to the age old question of what happens when a group of friends hold a seance in a museum. 09. Shugo Tokumaru – “Katachi” As it turns out, few things [...]
Morning all, and welcome back to the Friday Fives, where I bring you five things which have caught my attention this week, and in which you reciprocate by either adding your own wee things in the comments section, or mocking me for my buffoonish, shallow choices. Because you would do that, wouldn't you, being the internet and all. Anyhow, let's get going shall we, so we can commence with the talking of bollocks and you can distract me from the tedious accounts work I will have to spend my afternoon doing. Blech. 1. Paperman [...]
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Moosic, moosic, moosic Friday again...and breathe. Notes on artists from today's playlist: Maria Minerva plays The Half Moon, Cork Saturday, 1st February Angel Olsen plays The Half Moon, Cork Friday, 3rd May Simply click play below to begin today's playlist. [...]
2009 is the year where I rekindled my love for music blogging . It's also the first time in years where I actually wrote about music without an attachment to salary or advertising/revenue expectations. B logging is supposed to be enjoyable, and it is, again. If there's music I'm going to post it's because I love it, or at least really like it enough to share with my friends and readers. If there's a show I'm attending it's because I want to be there, not because I have to be there. [...]
Yo La Tengo , el grupo indie norteamericano de New Jersey, estrenó el video de I’ll be Around , tema que forma parte de su disco número 14 titulado Fade . El trabajo fue dirigido por Phil Morrison y protagonizado por Mac McCaughan de la banda Superchunk. La primera mitad del videoclip muestra a Mac McCaughan tocando la guitarra en un bosque mientras textos, frases, fragmentos de viejas canciones de [...]
O Yo La Tengo já começou o ano lançando seu 17º álbum, o Fade . A banda, entretanto, não lançava um clipe há mais de 16 anos. I'll Be Around foi a faixa escolhida para um vídeo gravado no meio de uma floresta em New England, nos Estados Unidos. O diretor é Phil Morrison e a atuação ficou por conta de Mac McCaughan . Várias mensagens e textos aparecem na tela enquanto reforçam o tom reflexivo já presente na música. O clipe é "baseado em fatos reais" e termina com [...]
Bon Appetit interviews Yo La Tengo's Ira Kaplan about the band's first music video and food on the road. KCRW's Bookworm interviews George Saunders about his new short story collection, Tenth of December . GalleyCat gathers information on the financial realities of being a genre novelist. Popmatters profiles Blue Nile frontman [...]
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