
Yo La Tengo
Biography
Yo La Tengo’s uninterrupted 30-years-and-counting career is unparalleled in its creative breadth and refusal to rest on laurels. Ira Kaplan, Georgia Hubley and James McNew have enjoyed success entirely on their own terms – playing the world’s best concert halls, museums, and dives, collaborating with everyone from Homer Simpson to Ray Davies, from Chris Elliott to Yoko Ono, portraying the Velvet Underground in I Shot Andy Warhol and composing scores for Adventureland and the films of Jean Painlevé, and even creating a holiday tradition unto themselves with their series of Hanukkah shows, from which they’ve donated hundreds of thousands to charity.
Video & Press
Yo La Tengo Release ‘We Have Amnesia Sometimes’: Listen
[Pitchfork] By Madison Bloom Earlier this week, Yo La Tengo launched a new Bandcamp page and shared a five-minute track called “James and Ira demonstrate mysticism and some confusion holds (Monday).” They continued to release a new song each day and, now, they’ve shared a fifth track titled “Ira searches for the slide, sort of (Friday).” The band has […]