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July 19, 2006

Yo La Tengo Are Not Afraid of You and They Will Beat Your Ass

Two decades into the game, mellow Jersey rockers return with most eclectic (and weirdly titled) effort yet
December 14, 2004

Yo La Tengo Celebrate 20

Indie rockers light the candles in Hoboken

I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass

It's official: Yo La Tengo suck at titling their albums, but they sure know how to make them. The New Jersey indie-rock trio's latest is easily its best of the past decade or so -- the kind of guitar-crazed masterpiece the band used to bang out every couple of years back in the Nineties. They begin ...

2006 RS: 4of 5 Stars

Today Is The Day!

2003

Summer Sun

2003

And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out

2000

I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One

1997

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Yo La Tengo is one of the all-time great American garage bands, operating out of Hoboken, NJ, for almost 20 years now without running out of ideas. Guitarist Ira Kaplan and drummer Georgia Hubley are a married couple who seem to like each other, quite the rock-world novelty. Together, they do for monogamy what the Velvet Underground did for heroin -- even their screaming feedback drones have the...

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