Posts tagged as Yo La Tengo
Syl Johnson To Celebrate Hanukkah In New Jersey With Yo La Tengo
In what at first seems like the oddest of pairings, but then starts to make a perfect type of record-collector-geek sense when you think about it a minute, the great and recently rediscovered Chicago soul master Syl Johnson will play a special Hanukkah concert with the wonderful indie-rock heroes Yo La Tengo on Saturday at Maxwell's in Hoboken, which is kind of like Yo La Tengo's basement. READ MORE
Bring On The Sugar Cube Computers
"We currently have built this Aquasar system that's one rack full of processors. We plan that 10 to 15 years from now, we can collapse such a system in to one sugar cube—we're going to have a supercomputer in a sugar cube." READ MORE
Yo La Tengo To Save Hanukkah Once More
After taking 2009 off, The Eight Nights Of Hanukkah with Yo La Tengo returns to Maxwell's for this year's Festival Of Lights, which takes place from December 1-8. Profits from the $30 tickets go to charity, and if years past are any indication, each show will be laden with excellent surprise guests and other goodies. Tickets to all eight nights go on sale at noon ET today — yes, that's really soon! — and will probably sell out quickly.
Everything Old, New Again: Yo La Tengo v. Van Halen
While the Fiery Furnaces are turning into Kiss, we are finding more returns to the Golden Age of Everything. Check the video for "Here To Fall," the new single from Hoboken living-room tunesmiths Yo La Tengo: beautiful, mesmerizing, deeply artistic in the way that the slow-motion footage of skywriters and kaleidoscopic editing capture the poignancy in Ira Kaplan's lyrics about the great leap of faith that is love. Yeah, well.... READ MORE
