Category: News

Hey everyone,

First of all, we want to express our appreciation for how quickly those Hanukkah tickets sold. For a moment there, we thought we were U2 or playing in the World Series or something.

But second of all, and the main reason we’re writing, is to point you toward the WFMU auction, already underway. Among the amazing prizes available for a generous donation to WFMU (Urinals set list, anyone?) is the opportunity to sing a song with us at some point during Hanukkah. Not only do you get two tickets to one of the shows, but you get to experience the raw excitement of a sound check! And help WFMU!! As Hot Chocolate put it so eloquently, “Louie, Louie, Louie, Lou-I.” I mean, every 1’s a winner.

Here’s the link, and good luck.

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

Hopefully by now, you’ve all grabbed tickets for YLT’s sorta-annual Eight Nights Of Hanukkah at Maxwell’s. If not, be sure to check our schedule page, where I’ve been furiously updating the current status of ticket availability. (As of this typing, all nights are sold out online, and in-person tickets are sold out from 12/2 through 12/5; Tunes (Hoboken) and Other Music (NYC) both have a handful of tickets left for 12/6 and 12/7, and there is exactly one ticket left at Tunes in Hoboken for 12/1, and precisely one ticket left at Other Music in NYC for 12/8… Turn off your computer and hurry!!!)

Those of you with tickets in pocket can sit back and enjoy some videos instead:

The other week, Yo La Tengo played England’s End of the Road Festival, and thanks to Bobby Beattie, we’ve got footage of their cover of Times New Viking‘s “Move to California.” Thanks to “the dude” for holding up those lyrics! Good thing you were there!

And from a 1987 appearance on the TV show “Psychotic Reaction”, here’s the band performing “House Fall Down” with German bassist Stephan Wichnewski.

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.

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.

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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).