The most difficult question in music criticism is: What does greatness look and sound like when a band is 32 years into its career? It’s easy to assess greatness in a young phenom, and speculate on ...

Asked when he started learning to play guitar, Ira Kaplan pinpoints the time as two years after he formed Yo La Tengo, the rock band that has been a critic’s darling since … well, before its leader ...

“This band does not exist without this club,” singer-guitarist Ira Kaplan announced during Yo La Tengo’s final appearance at the sainted Hoboken, New Jersey locale Maxwell’s last Saturday. (The venue ...

Indie rockers Yo La Tengo were onto something when they named their latest album, This Stupid World. The “For You Too” musicians aren’t afraid to remind lawmakers and politicians every chance they get ...

Pioneering indie rock band Yo La Tengo are celebrating a milestone. The Hoboken-bred trio released “There’s a Riot Going On” — their 15th studio album — in March, in a year when rock music is slightly ...

Yo La Tengo had a reason for naming their new album, There’s a Riot Going On, but singer and guitarist Ira Kaplan doesn’t intend to explain what it was. “As you may have noticed, I’m not that fond of ...

Yo La Tengo just keeps getting better and better. The venerable New Jersey indie trio’s fifteenth full-length album, There’s A Riot Going On, is an expansive collection comprising delicate mood pieces ...

The post Yo La Tengo Release Instrumental EP We Have Amnesia Sometimes: Stream appeared first on Consequence of Sound. The collection stems from a series of sessions that saw the trio “playing ...

I have a soft spot for Yo La Tengo's curiosities, like the cloudy bossa nova shimmy of "How To Make A Baby Elephant Float" or the spelunking drones and gurgling rock improvisations heard on The Sounds ...

Skinny boys in glasses, girls in knit jumpers, record collectors of all stripes, rejoice! This Saturday, October 10, college-rock heroes Yo La Tengo are bringing the noise, the melody and the irony to ...

Yo La Tengo was about halfway through “Out of the Pool,” the penultimate song from their forthcoming fifteenth album There’s a Riot Going On, when Ira Kaplan picked up his guitar. Like much of Riot, ...