Finally, as has become a Hanukkah tradition, Yo La Tengo welcomed Ira’s mom, Marilyn Kaplan, to the stage to sing. Stampfel ...

Yo La Tengo’s annual Hanukkah celebration continued last night, Dec. 15, as the indie icons presented the second performance in their eight-show residency ...

Yo La Tengo returned to New York’s Bowery Ballroom last night for the third performance in their eight-night Hanukkah celebration. The iconic indie trio’s ...

Yo La Tengo covered "Gimme Some Money," and brought out Built to Spill's Doug Martsch on second guitar for most of their set.

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 ...

The indie rock band Yo La Tengo paid tribute to the late Rob Reiner by playing a blasting Spinal Tap cover during their ...

I don’t know if “Drug Test” was a college radio hit in 1989 but it should’ve been. It’s catchy in a classical sense, like something Jackson Browne could’ve written, and it has a bit of edge with the ...

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 ...

When Yo La Tengo release their next album three years or so from now, no reviewer will think to mention Sonic Youth. Despite a shared fascination with how noise and melody can coincide and glance off ...

Yo La Tengo wouldn't seem to be very rock 'n' roll, given that it's a very stable and long-lasting operation. Since 1991, the lineup has consisted of a married couple — drummer Georgia Hubley and ...

"We would write our songs soft / Then we would try to make them tough." That's a line from "Before We Stopped To Think," a song by the obscure, now-defunct indie-rock band Great Plains, covered by Yo ...

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 ...