Yo La Tengo

Should You Buy FYF Fest Tickets This Year?

My Bloody Valentine is headlining, of course you should buy FYF Fest tickets; this is a no brainer. Okay, the decision isn't necessarily that simple. Backing up: FYF Fest is a two-day festival that takes place in downtown Los Angeles, featuring a variety of indie, electronic, punk, and comedy acts. ... More >>

Ceremony: One of Punk's Most Unpredictable Outfits on Rising, Raging and Changing

By Reyan Ali Finding a young, lesser-known band in the pages of Rolling Stone is not a noteworthy event. However, seeing a review of Ceremony's new record, Zoo, in the magazine recently still constitutes one of those I-can-believe-it's-happening-but-I-still-can't-believe-it moments because Ceremony ... More >>

Eight Songs for Hanukkah (Not Including That Adam Sandler Song Because We're Still Mad Jack and Jill Exists)

​As you've no doubt noticed, we've dived headfirst into the holiday spirit around here. We've got song to string your Christmas lights to, our favorite WTF Christmas albums, and even a weekly series, "Christmas Music That Doesn't Suck" (look for installment number two tomorrow). But we're w ... More >>

So What Do Those 15 Favorite Songs Say About Us Anyway?

Lindsay Cates on the 1s and 2s ​Okay, so the 15 Favorite Songs thing. It happened. I freaked out a little (a lot) picking my selections, but it was a fun, in a self-aggrandizing way. I wrote yesterday that it was nearly impossible to do what the event asked: come up with 15 songs that you love a ... More >>

White Fence at The Trunk Space, 8/3/2011

Lydo Le​White Fence The Rhythm Room Wednesday, August 3 Sometimes a band blows you away out of nowhere. White Fence is one of those bands.The group fucking ruled. But let's backtrack a bit. The night kicked off with local veteran, Matthew Reveles' new outfit, Cowboy The Indian hitting the stag ... More >>

Think of The Baseball Project as an Indie Rock Soundtrack to a Ken Burns Documentary

Calexico's "Kimberpalooza" Show Will Be a Treat for Phoenix

Nothing Not New: We All Suffer from "Aesthetic Atrophy," But at Least I'm Getting Help

"If music be the food of love, play on. Give me excess of it . . ." -- Wm. Shakespeare ​ I recently received some bad news regarding a diagnosis. It's never easy to hear someone (especially an expert in his field) tell you that you have a serious problem, and it certainly wasn't easy this t ... More >>

What's Spinning: The Blaze 1330 AM

<​The Blaze is, according to our Best of Phoenix issue, the station of choice for those jonesing to hear what's happening in local music. Here's the chart documenting what ASU's Original Alternative played over the past week.1. Fruit Bats - The Ruminant Band2. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug3. Grand Ar ... More >>

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Yo La Tengo at The Marquee

​It's been a pretty solid year to be a Yo La Tengo fan.  The Hoboken-based indie-rock institution (25 years and running) didn't just release one new album this year, they released two. Their latest, Popular Songs finds the band exploring their entire stylistic breadth, indulging in the or ... More >>

Concert Review: Elliot BROOD at Rhythm Room

BY MIKE ESCOTOShawn Anderson courtesy of ElectricMustache.com​ If you were a music fan in Phoenix on Wednesday night and looking to hit up a concert you had plenty of acts to choose from. The obvious choices were Yo La Tengo at Marquee Theatre or Ghostface Killah and Mayer Hawthorne at The Clubho ... More >>

Nothington at the Phix: A private performance

by Frances Michelle Lopez​        I don't think I have ever paid $10 to see a punk band before. Growing up, I was raised with that $5 or no one turned away sort of punk rock mentality, the kind of ideal that hardcore forefathers like Ian MacKaye had deeply i ... More >>

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10 Things Under $10 This Weekend: Free Rock Shows, Bad-Ass Country, and Tattooed Punks

Loren Scott Sketching In Stereo is scheduled to perform tonight at the Hot Topic at Tempe Marketplace. Was the four-day workweek too much for y'all to handle? Fear not, fellow cubicle drones, as we've got a decatet of onexpensive options to spend your weekend recovering from the rat race. Th ... More >>

Wavves to Come Through Phoenix on Fall Tour

Ah yes, the ever popular x-ray of Nathan Williams' broken wrist.​Nathan Williams, the creative force behind Wavves, has been having an interesting last few months. There was the meltdown incident in Spain and the broken wrist. He released a new song, Mickey Mouse, a week ago and now he's announced ... More >>

Incoming: Yo La Tengo, Mars Volta, Monsters of Folk, The Voodoo Organist, Marcy Playground, Sevendust

We've already hit a lot of the highlights of this week's concert announcements earlier in the week (Yo La Tengo, Mars Volta, Monsters of Folk, The Voodoo Organist) but somehow a big one slipped through the cracks.Yes, Marcy Playground (pictured) is making their long-awaited return to Club Red o ... More >>

July 24 In Blogs: Arpaio, Yo La Tengo, Morimoto, and Cronkite

In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Feathered Bastard: Joe Arpaio Whines About Three Illegals Released on Orders of ICE (Or Were They?) Up on the Sun ... More >>

Download New Yo La Tengo Track "Here to Fall" For Free

Yo La Tengo still has it. Don't believe us? Check out this new track "Here to Fall" from their upcoming album Popular Songs. Download the track and start rocking out here. For more news from Yo La Tengo, check out www.yolatengo.com or twitter.com/therealYLT.

Yo La Tengo to Play Marquee in October

Hoboken, NJ rockers Yo La Tengo will hit up The Valley this October in support of their new album Popular SongsAs announced via the Matablog, Matador Records' blog, seminal indie rockers Yo La Tengo have announced a spiffy new fall tour, complete with a date at the Marquee Theater October 14. This i ... More >>

July 22 In Blogs: George Gascon, Yo La Tengo, Lisa G's, and Tool

In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Feathered Bastard: Neo-Nazi Oi Fest II Scheduled for October 24 in Tonopah, Arizona George Gascon Was Threatened w ... More >>

Other People's Blogs: Lil Wayne's Ode to Kobe, New Yo La Tengo Mp3, Mastodon Gets Vans Deal

Spin: Hot Download: A-Camp's '80s Cover Rolling Stone: Lil Wayne Pens Ode To Kobe, "Rebirth" Pushed To August 18th Electric Mustache: mp3: Yo La Tengo - "Periodically Double Or Triple" Pitchfork: Mastodon Get Their Own Pair of Vans Idolator: The Most Beguiling "Weird Al" Yankovic Cover You Will Hea ... More >>

Wilco Is Dave Matthews Band – And That’s Okay

Amazon Trots out Their "100 Greatest Indie Rock Albums of All Time"

Amazon takes their shot at indie rock's 100 greatest albumsThe fine folks over at amazon.com decided that the time was ripe to assemble a list of the best indie rock albums of all time. Indie rock is a genre either really easy to define or kind of confusing to define, but that sentiment did not hol ... More >>

M. Ward, Vetiver, Owen, and Sigur Ros are Just Some of What's Selling at Revolver Records

Mathew Ward and Zooey Deschanel (a.k.a. She & Him). We fully admit to our jealousy of Mathew Ward. Not only does the Portland guitarist have an obscene amount of talent (which he's demonstrated much over the past decade on seven separate full-length albums), Ward's collaborated musically with ... More >>

Rogue Wave elevates their music with Asleep at Heaven's Gate

No Sleep for Brooklyn

Guest star day

Pretty Girls Make Saves

Indie rock teams up with a baseball video game. No, really

Cage

Plenty to rap about

This Week's Day-by-day Picks

Top 10 selling CDs at Stinkweeds Record Exchange, 12 West Camelback Road

Chart-toppers for March 28 through April 3

Take Me Out . . .

. . . to the ball game

Top 10 selling CDs at Stinkweeds Record Exchange (1250 East Apache Boulevard in Tempe) for November 27 through December 5

Catching a Thief

Radiohead's unreleased new album is already a hit with Valley hipsters – even if it's not the real thing

Yo La Tengo/Dump

Summer Sun (Matador) A Grown-Ass Man (Shrimper)

Seedy Recovery

"America's Rolling Stones" gather no moss

Show Business

TV-3's NewShow is overhauled, and local music gets the boot

The Schramms, Tom Heyman, Matt Piucci, and Guru Guru

One Hundred Questions, Boarding House Rules (Innerstate), Hellenes (Inbetweens USA), 2000 Gurus (Funfundvierzig, dist. by Innerspace)

Mendoza Line

We're All in This Alone
(Bar/None)

Yo La Tengo

And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
(Matador)

The Kingsbury Manx

The Kingsbury Manx (Overcoat Recordings)

Molten Wax

Blood on the Dance Floor

Art, commerce and ideologies all collide in the strange world of the remix

Message in a Bottle

The Refreshments take a cautious step toward maturity with their new album

Calendar for the week

Love and Marriage

Yo La Tengo exposes indie rock to the emotional bonds of matrimony

(Past Their) Prime Cuts

COVER ME

HAVING SUNG EVERYONE ELSE'S SONGS, YO LA TENGO NOW WRITES ITS OWN