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The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 2/15/13

Here are the 10 best concerts around the city this weekend, in no particular order.

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DREIDEL ROCK

Eight holy nights 
of Yo la Tengo

Like Frankfurters? Love Slayer? Groove to Tara Sinn's Horror Dog II

California-born artist Tara Sinn -- now a New Yorker -- created this video involving a hot dog that never ends. The soundtrack is Slayer's "Raining Blood." Let the horror begin! [See More: M. Ward, Yo La Tengo, and Broccoli in Prospect Park | Pavement's 'A Shady Lane' | Foodie Hip Hop]

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 >>

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Q&A: Big Day Coming Author Jesse Jarnow Gets Personal With Yo La Tengo

WFMU DJ, music journalist and frequent Voice contributor Jesse Jarnow has just released Big Day Coming: Yo La Tengo and the Rise of Indie Rock (Gotham), a voluminous tome that dissects Hoboken's finest Amerindie pioneers' journey from their childhood beginnings all the way to their current place as ... More >>

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Live: Lambchop And Yo La Tengo Bring The Quiet To (Le) Poisson Rouge

Lambchop w/ Yo La Tengo (Le) Poisson Rouge Thursday, April 19 Better than: A slow, sensuous makeout session, punctuated by the occasional slow, sensuous yawn, which ideally is taken more as a sign of relaxation than boredom, but whatever, stop reading so much into it. Well here unfolded a lovely ... 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 >>

8 CRAZY NIGHTS

Yo La Tengo light their menorah

Holiday Guide: Yo La Tengo Celebrates 10 Years of Hanukkah Miracles

Next year, in Hoboken

This Week In The Voice: A Call For More Nostalgia, Widowspeak Rising, And Yo La Tengo Prep For Halloween

Liz Clayton/slowshutter.orgYo La Tengo's Ira Kaplan.​In this week's Village Voice, out now: I look back at MTV's latest dip into the seemingly bottomless pool of nostalgia, Michael Tedder coaxes out the story of Brooklyn balladeers Widowspeak, and Jesse Jarnow previews Yo La Tengo's Hanukkah s ... More >>

Yo La Tengo's Eight Nights Of Hanukkah Will Again Take Place Over (Yes) The Eight Nights Of Hanukkah

​Which is a sort of snarky way of saying that tickets for this year's Eight Nights of Hannukah celebration go on sale tomorrow at noon. For those unfamiliar with the tradition, every year Yo La Tengo brings together a bunch of friends whose identities "will not be divulged until the last possi ... More >>

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Yo La Tengo Likes Sake and Grappa, but Not Stinky Tofu

Stinky tofu is, indeed, stinky​Indie band Yo La Tengo are bona fide foodies! Interviewed in Wine Enthusiast magazine, the trio explain that their sole purpose for touring is to eat and drink their way through cities around the world. But they still can't conquer every food.

The 10 Best Original Songs From 21st Century Films

Earlier today, the National released a video for the song "Think You Can Wait," from the "quirky" Paul Giamatti film Win Win. The video is a misguided combination of film dialogue transposed over a staged performance (the YouTube comments have already begun trashing it, and Matt Berninger's voice ... More >>

Yo La Tengo Are Playing A Benefit For Japan at Maxwell's This Wednesday; Tickets On Sale at 10 a.m.

Yo La Tengo at Maxwell's in December. Photo by Liz Clayton.​We'd heard rumors of this last week, and yesterday, the band made it official--Hoboken humanitarians and all around good humans Yo La Tengo will be playing a hastily organized benefit for Japan this Wednesday at Maxwell's. Tickets are ... More >>

Download The National's Opening Set For Yo La Tengo At Maxwell's

What they looked like, just for reference. So the big whoop during this year's slate of Yo La Tengo Hanukkah shows was the final night's long-rumored opening set from the National, deigning to play a venue just ever so slightly smaller than what they're used to these days. Even if you're still way ... 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 >>

Wednesday Night's Big Guest at Yo La Tengo's Final Maxwell's Show? Probably The National

Take it with a grain of salt, but we hear pretty reliably that the big guest for Yo La Tengo's eighth-night finale at Maxwell's will be none other than Brooklyn's the National. If true, they'd follow a murderer's row of guests YLT have already had out to Hoboken this year: M. Ward and tonight's Vi ... More >>

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ROCKIN’ HANUKKAH

Eight nights of gifts from Yo La Tengo

The 6 Best Things You Can Bid On From WFMU's Benefit Auction

Inside the WFMU archives.​It's fundraising time again for awesome local freeform radio station WFMU, and rather than do another fall marathon, music festival, record fair, or art benefit, the station has organized an online auction, with all proceeds going to support the beloved and increasing ... More >>

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Yo La Tengo Doing Their Maxwell's Hannukah Shows Again

​It just wasn't the same without them. Yo La Tengo's annual epic run of Hannukah-themed shows at Maxwell's in Hoboken was sorely missed last year, the first time they'd opted out since 2001, robbing us all of a crucial winter tradition, stuffed with holiday cheer and the inevitable super-secre ... More >>

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ONE QUESTION

How many songs will Jeff Mangum do?

The Chris Knox Benefit at Le Poisson Rouge Has Already Raised $40,545

​Which is to say that the May 6th show, featuring Yo La Tengo, the Clean, Jeff Mangum, and a bunch of other people is way beyond sold out--even at $75 per ticket. The indie start-up for indie start-ups, Kickstarter, hosted the bidding, and you can still give money there--as little as a dollar- ... More >>

Today Is the Day Fucked Up's "Do They Know It's Christmas" Cover Arrives

​The first and hopefully last time we'll spend a morning typing "Do They Know It's Christmas" into iTunes. Matador promises that the long awaited Band Aid cover, featuring what Fucked Up frontman Damian Abraham described to Pitchfork as "the best and the worst of the music industry," will hit ... More >>

Here Is Your Unsettling, Idiosyncratic Halloween-Party Playlist, Courtesy Of Fever Ray

​The upstanding citizens over at dance-music e-bible Resident Advisor offer a special podcast for this spookiest of weeks: an hour-long Halloween mix from none other than Fever Ray, last seen at Webster Hall through billowing, laser-punctured plumes of smoke. Artists include Entombed, Yo La Te ... More >>

GHOST WORLD

First, they take Vermont

Yo La Tengo Evolves, Again

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

Stream Yo La Tengo's Popular Songs

​Yo La Tengo's mellow and organ-drenched Popular Songs comes out on Matador September 8th, but you can stream the entire record for free over at NPR, right now. Jams. Tickets are still available for the band's September 25th stand at Roseland, so you might want to get on that, too.

Greatest Photograph Ever Taken, Contestant #1: Ed Droste and Feist Ride the Cyclone

From the Grizzly Bear singer/lead Twitterer's Twitter comes this delightful snapshot from last night's star-studded Wilco/Yo La Tengo fete at Coney Island, about which much more later. The two gentlemen behind Droste and Feist have no idea they're sharing a car with such indie-rock royalty, and in ... More >>

Wilco at Keyspan Park (The Live Review)

photo by Harry Shuldman Wilco/Yo La Tengo 13 July 2009 KeySpan Park Brooklyn, NY Things Wilco are not (the American Radiohead; uncute). Things Wilco are (strummable; a great band to sing along to on a breezy eve on Coney Island, where they played last night in centerfield of KeySpan Park). Steeple ... More >>

Live: Yo La Tengo (With Stephin Merritt, Britt Daniels, and Ira's Mom) at Maxwell's

New Year's Eve 2009: New York Shows, Continued

HANUKKAH IN HOBOKEN

Light the Menorah with Yo La Tengo

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

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