#Yo La Tengo

AF 2020 IN REVIEWOur Favorite Albums and Singles of The Year

In a year that's been like no other for the music industry, it feels a bit weird to make a best of 2020 list - there have been no tours, venues and clubs across the globe are in danger of closing their doors for good, release schedules were shuffled beyond recognition, and musicians have had to...

Lindsey Rhoades

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Since 2012, they've recorded tons of catchy '70s influenced power pop tunes that ooze with New York City lore, and have filmed many of their own music videos. They've played hundreds of shows in Brooklyn DIY spaces,...

Tarra Thiessen

NEWS ROUNDUPRihanna Snaps Back, Lauryn Hill to Headline Pitchfork Festival and More

NEWS ROUNDUP: Rihanna, Lauryn Hill, Pitchfork and More By Jasmine Williams Rihanna Snaps Back Rihanna has publicly accused Snapchat of victim shaming after the social media app displayed an advertisement the referenced Chris Brown’s 2009 brutal assault of the mega-star. The ad, for online game,...

Jasmine Williams

NEWS ROUNDUPGender Equalizers, Night Mayors and More

NEWS ROUNDUP: Gender Equalizers, Night Mayors, and More By Jasmine Williams An App for Gender Equality: On Thursday, in honor of International Women’s Day, Spotify and Smirnoff partnered together to launch the Smirnoff Equalizer, a tool that reveals the gender breakdown of the artists you are...

Jasmine Williams

NEWS ROUNDUPWarped Tour, Bowie in Brooklyn and More

Warped Tour's Goodbye It’s the end of an era for pop-punks, emo kids, and sk8er bois - Warped Tour just announced their final cross-country lineup and it’s going to be a very grand finale! The show will hit the road for virtually the whole summer; kicking off on June 21st in California and ending...

Jasmine Williams

LIVE REVIEWYo La Tengo and Alvin Lucier @ Merkin Concert Hall

The evening's instrumentals included giant yellow balloons and a scarlet teapot, and the act of tuning became a performance in of itself.

Annie White

LIVE REVIEWYo La Tengo @ Town Hall

New York City's resplendent Town Hall is quite a place to have a birthday party. Amid the glistening chandeliers and velvety red carpet, an unassuming crowd filed in, featuring a mix of young kids with neon hair, older folks with silver hair, and everyone in between. Yo La Tengo's longstanding,...

Raquel Dalarossa

AudioFemme's Best of 2013

From elaborate roll-outs to surprise releases, 2013 was a banner year for comebacks, break-outs, break-ups, and overnight sensations. The fact that the most oblique content could cause rampant controversy to reverberate through the blogosphere turned every song into a story and made every story...

Lindsey Rhoades

FLASHBACK FRIDAYYo La Tengo's Painful

When I first heard “The Whole of the Law,” it was nighttime and it was snowing outside. Though it’s the ninth track on the eleven-track-long Painful, I discovered it as a standalone, stumbling upon the song on YouTube. I’d been listening to something else—who knows what, at this point—when I...

Raquel Dalarossa