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Yo La Tengo News

Yo La Tengo announce European tour

Band announce UK and Ireland shows to play their 'Popular Songs'

Jul 8, 2009

Yo La Tengo announce new album and UK gig

Band also giving away a free MP3

Jun 4, 2009

Yo La Tengo, Built To Spill for Pitchfork Festival

Fans can vote on which songs bands play

Mar 6, 2009

Yo La Tengo for Brooklyn pool party

They'll headline McCarren Pool on August 24

Aug 6, 2008

Yo La Tengo announce US tour

The dates include a show with The Flaming Lips

Feb 21, 2007

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YouTube Yo La Tengo Videos

Yo La Tengo - Sugarcube (04:00)

This is my favourite video clip of all time!. So good.

Yo La Tengo - Today is the Day (television performance) (05:00)

Yo La Tengo playing Today is the Day on the now cancelled John Mcenroe show. I think this was from sometime in 2004.

Yo La Tengo - You can have it all - Fuji Rock Festival 2000 (04:42)

Yo La Tengo - You can have it all - Fuji Rock Festival 2000

Yo La Tengo - Mr. Tough (03:50)

Yo La Tengo have been performing for more than 20 years. While they haven't achieved the popular acclaim of their contemporaries the Flaming Lips, they get a lot of credit for outlasting pretty much everyone else....

Yo La Tengo - "Nothing To Hide" (02:55)

Two of Matador's finest purveyors of rock and roll have teamed up (Times New Viking along with directors Pelham Johnston and Brandon Reichard took the drivers seat on this one, with Yo La Tengo supplying the tunage...

Yo La Tengo Reviews

Yo La Tengo : Today Is The Day

Luscious buzzpop of ages...

Oct 24, 2003

Yo La Tengo : Summer Sun

NYC weirdniks come in from the cold for 11th full length album

Apr 23, 2003

All Tomorrow's Parties: Camber Sands Pontins Holiday Centre

The third annual All Tomorrow's Parties festival finds Television

Apr 9, 2001

Osaka Club Quattro

You couldn't help but be charmed...

Oct 27, 2000

you can have it all

Yo La Tengo You Can Have It All(Matador)

Jun 10, 2000

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Yo La Tengo Biography

Yo La Tengo is an American alternative rock band formed in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1984. Since 1992, the lineup has consisted of Ira Kaplan (guitars, vocals), Georgia Hubley (drums, vocals), and James McNew (bass, vocals).

Despite achieving limited mainstream success, Yo La Tengo has been called "the quintessential critics' band" and maintains a strong cult following. The band is renowned for its encyclopedic repertoire of cover songs both in live performance and on record.

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Yo La Tengo's Best Songs

1. Autumn Sweater
2. Sugarcube
3. Here to fall
4. Stockholm Syndrome
5. Gentle Hour
6. Our Way to Fall
7. You Can Have It All
8. Avalon or Someone Very Similar
9. Nothing to Hide
10. Fourth Time Around

Yo La Tengo Discography

Yo La Tengo albums.

New Wave Hot Dogs - 1987 (Coyote Records/US)
Fakebook - 1990 (Bar/None Records/US)
May I Sing With Me - 28/02/1992 (Alias Records/US)
Ride the Tiger - 1993 (City Slang/GB)
Painful - 05/10/1993 (Matador Records/US)
Electr-O-Pura - 1995 (City Slang/GB)
I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One - 22/04/1997 (Matador Records/US)
And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out - 22/02/1999 (Matador Records/US)
And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out (disc 1) - 2000 (Matador Records/GB)
And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out (disc 2) - 2000 (Matador Records/GB)
The Sounds of the Sounds of Science - 27/03/2002 (Matador Records/US)
Summer Sun - 08/04/2003 (Matador Records/US)
I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass - 11/09/2006 (Matador Records/GB)
Popular Songs - 07/09/2009 (Matador Records/GB)