Yo La Tengo

August 31, 2010

ira — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:14:19 +0000

Special Back-to-School Edition

Thanks to Lisa for alerting us to one of our youngest, and most discerning, fans. Must confess to not sharing Henry’s enthusiasm for the Star Wars movies, but he hit the bull’s-eye with his appreciation of garbage trucks, bike riding and bagels.

August 4, 2010

ira — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 04:37:08 +0000

Our posts have been few and far between lately, but we hope you don’t misinterpret our media blackout as a sign of inactivity on our part. Quite the opposite. Just last weekend, we were hired by the struggling New York Mets to travel to South Bend, Indiana, to undertake some clandestine scouting of the Arizona Diamondbacks’ (or the dB’s, as we prefer to think of them) class A affiliate. Thanks to Wilco for helping to get us behind enemy lines. Here are a few shots of Georgia, me and James in disguise.

(click to see a larger version)

July 1, 2010

ira — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:12:31 +0000

If you’re following us on Twitter, I don’t have to tell you that we show up in the most surprising places. But what if you’re looking for something more, oh I don’t know, tactile, as Dudley Moore once put it so eloquently. Imagine our surprise when the June 17 edition of The Nashville Scene arrived in our mailbox, specifically their review of the Holland House, specifically the following:

If you know anything at all about us, it’s probably our fondness for the buttery finish. So thanks, Holland House, this is making it easier to wait out the change of seasons at Lantern when it’s too warm for the Autumn Sweater (housemade black pepper-vanilla rum and pear nectar) and too early for the Yo La Mango (mango purée, lemongrass, sake & vodka, served straight up with lemon).

Saturday, May 29, 2010

stewey — Sat, 29 May 2010 15:15:32 +0000

Who Asked You?
A Collection of Interviews & Press What-Nots compiled by Nick “Stewey” Morehouse, YLT personal chef/webmaster

• Our friends Condo Fucks played Primavera Sound in Barcelona this past weekend, and you can stream their performance below, thanks to WFMU [performance starts at 0:11:04].

• And you can find out the origins of their name, and much more, in this interview Ira did with Jambase.

May 26, 2010

ira — Thu, 27 May 2010 03:28:51 +0000

We interrupt the printing of boarding passes to Barcelona to share a photo sent to us by David. He’s not specific about when this was taken, so we can only hope that it was at last night’s stirring 8-0 triumph over the Phillies. Nice to know that misspellings aren’t the sole province of rock club marquees, but then again not so surprising. After all, this is an organization that thinks Queens is one of the five boroughs of New York Citi.

April 17, 2010

ira — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 07:04:52 +0000

Spotted by Brooklyn bureau chief Jon Glaser on 4th Avenue, near President Street:

(you might want to click on the image to capture it in all its grandeur)

. . . thank you

March 18, 2010

ira — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:20:09 +0000

March 13, 2010

stewey — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:03:18 +0000

It’s a special edition of…

Who Asked You?
A Collection of Interviews & Press What-Nots compiled by Nick “Stewey” Morehouse, YLT personal chef/webmaster

Gil Divine, taken in Seattle 2006 by our pal Mike.
And don’t think I wasn’t tempted to use this picture again.

• Check out this great interview from the Old Style Guitar Shop with the great Gil Divine, guitar tech extraordinaire.

More of John Dalton’s pics from the WFMU Marathon can be found here.

• And just a reminder, it’s the final weekend of the WFMU Marathon, so please take a minute to support this great radio station. For those who’ve been asking for a set list for the band’s most recent covers-a-thon, please check the comments at the WFMU Blog.

March 8, 2010

ira — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:44:33 +0000

Thanks to everyone who joined in the hysteria last Friday night as Georgia, James, Bruce and I took to the airwaves to grapple with your requests in return for donations of your hard-earned $$ to WFMU. And I do mean everyone. There were more pledges coming through than we could compute – it’s only now that I’m realizing how many we never acknowledged at all, not even in the empty-the-bench closing medley of “Sex Bomb.” With that in mind, we want to send our regrets to Andrew in Brooklyn, Conor in D.C., Bean Bag Amerika in Brooklyn, Laurie in Chapel Hill, Ann in Flushing, Daniel in Flushing, John and Becky in Greenwich, Ann and Evan in Providence, Stephen in West Chester – this is getting to be like the end of Romper Room – Stephen in Canada, Chris in Madison, Ben in NYC, and Arlene in Jersey City for overlooking their suggestions. But we want to send out our most profuse apologies to everyone whose request we did take and the resultant bloodshed. And I do mean bloodshed. Even before the night was over, revisionism had set in, positing that my index finger started gushing blood during “TV Eye.” But I’m here to tell you it happened during our incendiary take on “Second Hand News.” Thanks again to one and all. Keep supporting WFMU.

February 27, 2010

ira — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:08:41 +0000

Is this really my first post of the year? In that case, let me bring you up to date. We’ve spent the early part of 2010 trying to see how many people we can get on stage with us to perform songs by the Clean. It’s going pretty well. Times New Viking helped us out with “Oddity” in Lawrence, Kansas in January, and card-carrying Clean member, Robert Scott, sang “Secret Place” and “I Wait Around” with us on consecutive nights in Auckland and Wellington earlier this month. Saw This Is It en route to New Zealand and My One and Only on the way home – guess which flight didn’t have on-demand movies.

Now that we’re caught up, it’s nearly March, which means it’s time for the WFMU Marathon. For the 15th year in a row, we will take to the airwaves and, with your help and generosity, humiliate ourselves so that this great station can continue the doing of their thing. In case you’re new to this catastrophe, if you pledge $100 to WFMU between 8 and 11 pm on Friday, March 5, during Pseu Braun’s Thing with a Hook program, you can make a song request. And we will try to play it. How is this possible, you ask. The answer is simple: It’s not possible. Can’t be done. But there’s countless ways to get it wrong, and we’ll attempt as many as we can within the constraints of a three-hour show. As ever, we will accompanied by Mr. Bruce Bennett on chord-missing and word-forgetting. Air personality Gaylord Fields will be co-hosting.

If you don’t want to wait for Friday, you can donate to WFMU right now and email your request to Gaylord, who will keep it in a hermetically sealed mayonnaise jar on Funk and Wagnall’s doorstep until March 5 at eight o’clock. Caution: If you’re the person who thinks that Oscar® winners get advance word or the NBA draft lottery is rigged, wait for Friday to make your request.

Please join us. And please support WFMU.