Maxwell’s, the legendary Hoboken music venue that nurtured talents from the Feelies to Yo La Tengo to Titus Andronicus, shut down earlier this year with a farewell performance featuring local legends the Bongos and an underground-star-studded cast of Hoboken musicians. It was an appropriate way for Maxwell’s to go out &#8...

Just last night I was at tiny Stuart’s Opera House in tiny Nelsonville, Ohio, watching Yo La Tengo tear through two sets — one quiet, one loud, both heavy on material from this year’s exceptional Fade. Frontman Ira Kaplan mentioned a deluxe edition of the album was on its way and that it would include [...]

Yo La Tengo’s charming video for “Ohm,” the opening track from their great new album Fade, splits its time between two things: A fantastical animated journey through a psychedelic imaginary universe, an an extended math problem full of music-dork wordplay. YLT’s new video for the lovely, lilting Fade track...

“Ohm,” the sighing drone that opens Yo La Tengo’s excellent new album Fade, is one hell of a song, and when I saw them earlier this year, they played two different versions of it in the same show. The song’s new video is a fantastical animated affair, one that stars various clones of band members, [...]

Last night, Yo La Tengo performed at Portland’s Wonder Ballroom. The trio did two sets, including one acoustic. Check out our photos of the show shot by Colin McLaughlin.