De La Soul releasing concept album as First Serve HitFix De La Soul's last studio album was 2004's "The Grind Date," although they've released several compilations since then and have appeared on songs by Gorillaz (including the Grammy-winning "Feel Good Inc.") and indie icons Yo La Tengo.
Morton Grove Community Calendar for Feb. 16, 2012 Morton Grove Champion From Elvis to Missy Elliott, the Rolling Stones to Yo La Tengo, the songs on these tapes make up the soundtrack to their lives in this moving memoir of love, loss, and music. Knitting Roundtable for Adults will be held from 2:30-4 pm, Mondays.
Item World: Local news and views 2/10 Minneapolis Star Tribune ... upcoming "Occupy This Album," a compilation for the Occupy Wall Street movement featuring those all-stars, plus Lucinda Williams, Crosby and Nash, DJ Logic, Immortal Technique, Warren Haynes, Yo La Tengo, Toots & the Maytals and about 30 others.
A sound identity TODAYonline See, critics have been comparing the fuzz sound of the British rockers with '90s indie groups like Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo, Pavement or Teenage Fanclub. Their self-produced, self-titled LP, was dubbed by music tabloid Pitchfork as "a ...
The Ten Best Songs Over Ten Minutes Long (No Classic Rock or Prog Allowed) Seattle Weekly (blog) Yo La Tengo, "The Story of Yo La Tango" (sic) From the great 2006 album I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass, "The Story of Yo La Tango" proves that YLT is equally compelling at any length. The archetypal Krautrock song.
Weekend best bets: Feb. 10-13 Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog) Film: “The Toe Tactic” is writer, director and animator Emily Hubley's hand-drawn tale of a young woman dealing with loss and the mystical events that take place over the course of a magical weekend, with a score by Yo La Tengo.
Too Much Reverence? Or Just Reverent Enough? OffBeat Magazine ... the enthusiasm with which Brett Dennen steps into Bob's shoes for “You Ain't Goin' Nowhere,” I'd rather have something as ingenious as Howard Tate's R&B version of “Girl from the North Country” or as fragile as Yo La Tengo's “I Threw it All Away.
Jersey is where this band's heart is Washington Post But it is definitely part of a different Garden State continuum, one that includes seminal indie rock acts the Feelies and Yo La Tengo. Both of those bands have a innate understanding of the elegance of electric guitar and a few well-chosen words, ...
Primer: Dr. Dog Willamette Week But unlike similarly inclined music-nerd collectives (see Yo La Tengo), Dr. Dog isn't simply making music for record-store clerks and download junkies. Since exploding onto the scene from nowhere when guitarist Toby Leaman and drummer Scott McMicken's ...