James McNew

Last Night: M. Ward, Yo La Tengo, and Broccoli in Prospect Park

Here's your "healthy" rock snack! [See More Rock 'n' Dinner Roll: Pavement's 'A Shady Lane' | Foodie Hip Hop] Well, last night as the sun set in Prospect Park and Yo La Tengo took the stage (sans bass player James McNew, felled by appendicitis, but replaced by two other temporary musicians), I wa ... More >>

Live: M. Ward And Yo La Tengo Enjoy The (Relative) Silence At Prospect Park

M. Ward w/Yo La Tengo, Wyatt Cenac Celebrate Brooklyn! at Prospect Park Bandshell Tuesday, August 7 Better than: Having your appendix removed (get well soon, absent Yo La Tengo bassist James McNew). There was a quiet in the air as I approached the Prospect Park Bandshell, home of the Celebrate B ... More >>

The Oral History Of Kid Millions' Man Forever: "A Cross Between Metal Machine Music And 'Dare to Be Stupid'"

Kid Millions is juggling a shitload of action. The drummer extraordinaire just played another epic gig this past weekend with Oneida, the psych-rock jamming savants he's anchored since 1997. Man Forever, the bohemian collective of shape shifters he's united to realize his percussive-based spiritual ... More >>

Man Forever+Nymph

Live: Man Forever And People Of The North Plant The Flag At Secret Project Robot

Infinite Loop Opening Reception, with music by Man Forever and People of the North Secret Project Robot Saturday, January 14 Better than: Any venue without free pinball. Infinite Loop, the month-long art show by Val Britton and John Colpitts that opened at Secret Project Robot's new location in ... More >>

Live: Yo La Tengo Light The Menorah At Maxwell's One More Time

Lee Ranaldo & Steve Shelley w/Yo La Tengo, "Mote" Yo La Tengo: Hanukkah Shows Maxwell's December 20-27 Better than: Christmas. Hanukkah doesn't technically end until sundown Wednesday, but Yo La Tengo unplugged their electric menorah at Maxwell's last night, just after a post-midnight sign-of ... More >>

Missed Oneida's ATP Jam Session? Listen To It Online Now

... and even if you were present for all of the Ocropolis III, Oneida's extended improvisation at last weekend's All Tomorrow's Parties Presents I'll Be Your Mirror festival down in Asbury Park, it's worth revisiting the day via NPR's archive of the whole shebang, which is split into three parts sho ... More >>

Live: Yo La Tengo (and David Byrne! and Glenn Mercer!) Come Together For Japan at Maxwell's

David Byrne and Yo La Tengo care. All photos by Jesse Jarnow.​Yo La Tengo Maxwell's Wednesday, March 23 Better than: Sitting home alone fretting about cataclysmic awfulness. It's been 26 years since Yo La Tengo played every Wednesday at Maxwell's, and a last-minute benefit for Peace Wi ... More >>

Live: The National Open, But Yo La Tengo Dominate During Their Final Hanukkah Night At Maxwell's

Georgia, Ira, and the Clean's Hamish Kilgour, leading a drummer summit. Pics by Liz Clayton, more below.​Yo La Tengo/The National Maxwell's Wednesday, December 8 Better than: The other seven nights, kinda. Nels Cline sitting in Tuesday was pretty sweet. Ditto Jeff Tweedy a few nights earl ... More >>

Life According to That Attendant Guy in The Parking Lot Movie

Yo La Tengo Evolves, Again

Hoboken's finest keep turning inside out, keep beating your ass

Live: All Eight Nights of Hanukkah with Yo La Tengo

photo by Liz Clayton Dawn Sutter Madell, via the Yo La Tengo diary Eight shows, eight-and-a-half comedians, eight charities, eight mix CDs, 24 sit-ins, and three Velvet Underground covers later, Yo La Tengo brought another Hanukkah at Maxwell's to a close. But, as befits a band named in reference ... More >>

The Last Jelly NYC Pool Party: Yo La Tengo and Titus Andronicus

Yo La Tengo's James McNew Digs Dump Out of Mothballs at Maxwell's

Yo La Tengo Hanukkah Shows: Final 2!

Yo La Tengo's Hanukkah Shows: What's Happened So Far

Menorah Report

A Hanukkah fete with Yo La Tengo, the only band worth trudging all the way to Hoboken for

Walk Unafraid

Yo La Tengo briefly convince us that New Jersey is for lovers

Hoboken Lifers Unveil More Evocative Vacation Slides

Sonic Swimming

Seahorses and indie rock in the park

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Beating as One

Yo La Tengo Make Their Love Album

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