Video: Yo La Tengo - Mr. Tough

To coincide with the release of Yo La Tengo's 13th LP Fade this week, Sound Affects compiles the essential tracks by the unlikely last band standing from indie rock's '90s golden era. One of Yo La Tengo's defining characteristics has been its remarkable consistency, whether you're talking about how the trio's warm, rough-hewn aesthetic has become so familiar, or how reliable the quality of its output is. Yet even if you consider the group's last two decades since 1993's breakthrough effort Painful as basically a single, more or less continuous high period, there are still some obvious [...]

Yo La Tengo have added some southern dates to their freewheeling tour where they play acoustic versions of songs and tell stories of the band's long history. They will be at the Variety Playhouse on January 12th and Lambchop 's Kurt Wagner will be opening. That show is gonna be so awesome!: The Black Lips are involved with two different movies. First, they are playing a fictional band in a [...]