On Wednesday, at New York’s Merkin Concert Hall, Yo La Tengo appeared as a combination of cover band and bare-minimum orchestra for the electro-acoustic composer Alvin Lucier in a program of his works ...

Indie music has grown to include so much. It’s not just music that is released on independent labels, but speaks to an aesthetic that deviates from the norm and follows its own weirdo heart. It can ...

Indie legends Yo La Tengo are back with their new single “Fallout,” the first offering from their upcoming album This Stupid World. “I want to fall out of time,” singer Ira Kaplan says on the track.

For most people, New Jersey-based indie rock band Yo La Tengo’s Friday show at Gateway City Arts was their first concert since the start of the global pandemic. Often compared to the Velvet ...

On April 30, 1982, Lester Bangs overdosed and died, and took the ‘70s with him. The next day, in Hoboken, New Jersey, an obscure music writer named Ira Kaplan and a former child voiceover actress ...

Early on Monday night, it was clear the sold-out Beachland Ballroom crowd that Yo La Tengo drew was there to listen, something the trio has earned from its years on the road. This may sound like a ...

Yo La Tengo and Jad Fair have announced a reissue of their rare 1998 collaborative LP Strange but True. Long out-of-print and unavailable to stream, the album will be released on vinyl, CD, and, for ...

Yo La Tengo marked the 25th anniversary of their album I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One Friday by unearthing the director’s cut for their video “Sugarcube,” co-starring Mr. Show’s Bob Odenkirk and ...

A new Yo La Tengo album is coming! The legendary indie rock trio will release This Stupid World, which they're calling their 16th studio LP, in February. It's preceded today by "Fallout," a chugging, ...

You could feel the anticipation inside a sold-out Turner Hall Ballroom Saturday night for Yo La Tengo's first Milwaukee show in 10 years. You also could hear a lot of chatter from fans about their ...

The indie rock band's two male members took the stage after intermission dressed in women's clothing on Monday night Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been ...

The most impactful tracks of the year come from different genres and generations — and not all of them are traditional songs. Seventy-one tracks that asked big questions, found new kinship between ...