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Yo La Tengo

June 2023

  • From left: Yaeji, Jessie Ware, Lil Yachty, Everything But the Girl, Lankum.

    Best culture of 2023 so far
    The best albums of 2023 so far

    From the unique sonic world of Yaeji to the dark folk music of Lankum, here are our picks of the best LPs from the first half of the year

February 2023

  • Yo La Tengo press photo

    Yo La Tengo: This Stupid World review – a welcome handbrake turn

  • Yo La Tengo press photo

    Yo La Tengo: This Stupid World review – a glorious blend of squalling guitars and introspective ballads

December 2022

  • From left … John Cale, Raye and Dave Okumu.

    2023 culture preview
    The best new music to look forward to in 2023

    Yo La Tengo, Billy Nomates, Låpsley and Paramore have hotly anticipated albums due out – while the BBCSO puts on an Everest opera and Simon Rattle waves goodbye to the Barbican

November 2022

  • ‘Her voice was so indelibly defined’ … Mimi Parker performing in 2016.

    ‘She was so casual about her genius’: musicians on Low’s Mimi Parker

    Steve Albini, Robert Plant, Geoff Barrow and more pay tribute to the vocalist and drummer, who has died aged 55

February 2022

  • David Byrne, Yoko Ono and Japanese Breakfast.

    Various artists: Ocean Child: Songs of Yoko Ono review – tribute to brilliance of rock icon’s music

    Death Cab for Cutie, David Byrne and the Flaming Lips are among artists reworking Ono’s strange sound and outsider songs into something more palatable

August 2019

  • Consummate showman ... Father John Misty.

    Green Man festival review – mesmerising and otherworldly

  • Fun ahoy! … Belle and Sebastian (Stuart Murdoch fourth from right) and fans on the indie festival cruise aboard the Norwegian Pearl.

    All bands on deck: aboard the Belle and Sebastian Med and music cruise

March 2018

  • Yo La Tengo standing on a narrow city street at night time

    Yo La Tengo: There’s a Riot Going On review – improvised meditations

    (Matador)
  • Gently blowing on embers … Yo La Tengo.

    Yo La Tengo: There's a Riot Going On review – blue sky doo-wop with a crunchy rock edge

  • Ira Kaplan from Yo La Tengo perform in Barcelona at Primavera Sound (Photo by Simone Cecchetti/Corbis via Getty Images)

    My songbook
    Yo La Tengo on their greatest hits: 'Maybe no one else is listening'

    They are sometimes written off as a band for music nerds – but their vastly varied three decades of music has something for everyone. The band pick out their own favourite songs, from duets with air conditioners to Sun Ra covers about 9/11

January 2018

  • St. Vincent in San Francisco, January 22.

    Vampire Weekend, St Vincent and Feist to headline End of the Road festival

    Julia Holter to play her only UK festival date alongside acts including Velvet Underground founder John Cale and Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy

February 2016

  • Yo La Tengo

    Yo La Tengo and Alvin Lucier review – avant garde triumph with teapot

    Ecstatic Music festival, New York
    If Yo La Tengo are heirs to the Velvet Underground, Lucier could be their LaMonte Young, with a radical set that included a 15-minute piece for triangle

August 2015

  • August 2015 PR image of band Yo La Tengo

    Listen up
    Five albums to try this week: Beach House, Yo La Tengo and more

    Stream new music, from the Weeknd’s R&B to Motörhead’s 22nd studio album, and let us know what you’re excited to hear this week
  • Yo La Tengo

    Yo La Tengo: Stuff Like That There – indie stalwarts stay sneakily wonderful

    Though at first you might wonder if the world really needs another lovely Yo La Tengo album, they’ll get you in the end
  • Yo La Tengo.

    Yo La Tengo: Stuff Like That There review – utterly lovely

    Stripped-down versions of their own songs sit alongside obscure covers in an oddly pointless but beautiful release

July 2015

  • Dover beach, Dover, Kent, UK.

    The 10 best ...
    The 10 best beach moments in culture

    Don’t tarry at the water’s edge – take the plunge with some of the beach’s hottest starring roles in culture

April 2015

  • Ben Foster, Amber Tamblyn and Robin Wright at Housing Works.

    Amber Tamblyn's Dark Sparkler: an unsettling meditation on early fame

    The former child star performed her new book of poems with Yo La Tengo in New York, taking a gimlet-eyed aim at the pressures Hollywood places on women

December 2014

  • Yo La Tengo

    The music that changed my life
    Yo La Tengo are a sanctuary when the universe is shouting

    When you’ve had to listen to Let It Go in 41 different languages, Return to Hot Chicken will return you to sanity

May 2014

  • Seinfeld - Michael Richards, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jerry Seinfeld and Jason Alexander

    Music blog
    The sounds of Seinfeld: when cult comedy and music collides

    Vampire Weekend singer Ezra Koenig has covered the iconic Seinfeld theme for a game called The Junior Mint. But it's not the first time musicians have paid tribute to the cult sitcom
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