It’s was a Christmas miracle. It’s not that often that Hanukkah and Christmas Day occur at the same time, and Yo La Tengo had a special gift for everyone at Bowery Ballroom on the fourth night of ...

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 ...

When getting lost in the astounding discography of Hoboken, N.J.’s great Yo La Tengo, it can be easy to forget that the band – comprised of guitarist/vocalist Ira Kaplan, drummer/vocalist Georgia ...

A few months ago, Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley, the husband-wife duo who have performed together in the band Yo La Tengo for 34 years, had some friends over to their apartment. They told their ...

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 ...

For most people, New Jersey-based indie rock band Yo La Tengo’s Friday show at Gateway City Arts was their first concert since the start of the global pandemic. Often compared to the Velvet ...

Yo La Tengo, often seen in the Triangle, will perform at the Cat's Cradle in support of their latest album, “There’s a Riot Going On." GODLIS “There’s a Riot Going On,” the title of Yo La Tengo’s 18th ...

“YLT augmented their show with a light show by Joshua White and Gary Panter projected on a large screen at the rear of the stage. It very much reminded me of the time they played The Sounds Of Science ...

On April 30, 1982, Lester Bangs overdosed and died, and took the ‘70s with him. The next day, in Hoboken, New Jersey, an obscure music writer named Ira Kaplan and a former child voiceover actress ...

In 1963, in the wake of JFK's assassination, Leonard Bernstein said, "This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before." That also ...