Yo La Tengo
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Biography
Standing alongside the likes of Pavement, Modest Mouse and Guided by Voices, Yo La Tengo's knack of crafting melodic, experimental, good-natured, alternative rock has made them darlings of the critics and cult heroes of the US indie scene for three decades. Named after the Spanish for "I Got It", former music critic Ira Kaplan (guitar) formed the band with his wife Georgia Hubley (drums) in 1984 and quickly drew comparisons with the Velvet Underground for their distorted art rock and wistful melodies on early albums Ride the Tiger (1986), New Wave Hot Dogs (1987) and President Yo La Tengo (1989). The band turned to acoustic folk pop on Fakebook (1992) before signing with Matador Records in 1993 and hitting their peak with the acclaimed I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One (1997) and And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out (2000). A band of camera shy, music obsessives, their career continued to meander through all manner of eccentric styles and sounds on 13th studio record Fade (2013), but their importance to America's indie scene can't be overlooked. They followed up with albums such as Stuff Like That There (2015), There's a Riot Going On (2018), and The Stupid World (2023). A 1998 collaboration with Jad Fair, Strange But True, was reissued in 2025.
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Albums
Top Tracks
- Track Popularity
- Mushroom Cloud of Hiss
- Game Time
- Plainest Thing by Yo La Tengo
- How Some Jellyfish Are Born
- The Phantom Who Haunts Broadway
- Ashley
- Compared to What by Yo La Tengo
- Shrimp Stories
- Venus by Yo La Tengo
- Hyas and Stenorhynchus
- Politician by Yo La Tengo
- Sea Urchins
- Liquid Crystals
- Some Kinda Fatigue
- Texas Man Abducted by Aliens for Outer Space Joy Ride by Yo La Tengo
- V.O.T.E. (public service announcement by Yo La Tengo
- Buckner's Boner
- George
- Lewis
- Madeline
- Panic In Central Park (Outtake)
- Meerkat
- Old Joy: End Credits
- Pharaoh Blues
