High Road Touring - Yo La Tengo

Time: Summer / Fall
Situation: Festivals / One-offs / Special Situations

Tue Sep 1 '09 2:33 pm
Pitchfork Album Review >>

Tue Jul 14 '09 10:22 am
Yo La Tengo featured on Breakfast At Sulimay's >>

Fri Sep 19 '08 10:46 am
Pitchfork Review: They Shoot, We Score >>

Yo La Tengo

Popular Songs Most of us fans have a silly tendency to look at our favorite musicians as being the smartest people in the world. Within their lyrics we know we�ll find the answers to everything, if we just look hard enough. In truth, most musicians are no smarter than any of us�often much less so. You can find many books on this subject. Georgia, Ira and James of Yo La Tengo are exceptions to this rule, and Popular Songs, their 12th (or 14th, depending on what and how you count) album is the proof. Because when this new and dramatically unimproved world puts the hard questions to Yo La Tengo, they go Socratic as hell, swaggeringly, reassuringly, honestly telling us that all they know is they know nothing. They do not know why that sunbeam comes through the window when you are determined to sulk; they do not know just how are we going to make it, anyway? Still, Yo La Tengo are...

Tue Aug 7 '12 (7 PM)
Celebrate Brooklyn @ Prospect Park Bandshell
Brooklyn, NY

Thu Sep 6 '12
Memorial Auditorium @ Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts
Raleigh, NC

Fri Sep 7 '12 (9 PM)
Memorial Auditorium @ Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts
Raleigh, NC

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