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Fuckbook by Condo Fucks

The first album by Yo La Tengo under the Condo Fucks band name. [Rock, Indie]

Published: 2009-03-27 Provider: Metacritic

Breaking: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

Who: Before this rising New York indie-pop quartet played a note together, they had a band name, a MySpace page and some shared tastes: “We loved loud, sort of enthusiastic, life-affirming pop like Yo La Tengo and Smashing Pumpkins,” says frontman and songwriter Kip Berman, “where there’s big guitars and everything’s right in the world.” Sounds Like: February’s debut disc and the just-released Higher Than the Stars EP are dreamy and shimmery, with plenty of guitar fuzz — a deft update of late-Ei

Published: 2009-10-28 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Breaking, Videos

New Reviews: Phish, Yo La Tengo, BLK JKS and More

Photo: Crothers/FilmMagic Leading this week’s horde of New Reviews are Phish, who — 25 years into their storied jamtastic career — have delivered what Rolling Stone considers their best album yet with Joy. A long hiatus deprived Phans of the Vermont quartet of new music for four years, but Phish more than make up for their absence with their newest disc, which features 10 songs the band debuted during their reunion tour this summer. Joy serves almost as redemption for guitarist Trey Anastasio, w

Published: 2009-09-08 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Yo La Tengo's firm mantra: Never be afraid of change

Arts & EntertainmentSixteen years ago, Yo La Tengo guitarist Ira Kaplan was conducting an interview to help hype his band's new album. He had called the reporter...

Published: 2006-10-13 Provider: Seattle Times

Breaking: Bishop Allen

Who: A Brooklyn-based indie pop band fronted by two Harvard alums — singer-keyboardist Justin Rice and multi-instrumentalist Christian Rudder. The pair met in a mandatory English class in the mid-Nineties and formed a punk band called the Pissed Officers before starting up Bishop Allen, which they named after a Cambridge street. In 2006, the group put out an EP per month, and their third full-length, Grrr … is due in March. Sounds Like: A blend of Los Campesinos! and Yo La Tengo with a twee-folk vibe. The band’s literary influences, like Jorge Luis Borges and G.K. Chesterton, is evident on songs like Grrr …’s “The Ancient Common Sense of Things.” “There’s something cool about writing songs. You think, ‘Yesterday, this song didn’t exist but now it does,’ ” Rice says of the songwriting process. “But there’s something gratifying about playing shows because that you think ‘That thing I made in my room, these people appreciate it and they’ll give me a high-five.’ “ Vital Stats: • Moviegoers might recognize Bishop Allen from their appearance in last autumn’s hipstertastic Nick & Nora’s Infinite Playlist, where they performed their song “Middle Management.” Rice and Rudder are no strangers to the silver screen: Rice recently starred in the indie film Let Them Chirp Away, while Rudder appeared in 2005’s Funny Ha Ha. • The band has been married to the road in recent years. Rice admits, “We make enough money if we play every night to just keep going, but if we ever stop we’ll be broke.” The band stopped touring long enough to record their new album, using obscure studio equipment like a 1950s Magnerecorder while recording with Bryce Goggin, who has worked with Apples in Stereo, Pavement and Luna. • Bishop Allen have had their share of awkward concerts. “We’ve had a show where the band that played before us unplugged all the power in the club because they wanted to beat us up or something,” Rice says. “They got evicted forcibly by the bouncers. Then we played a Christmas party

Published: 2009-02-04 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Breaking

Photo Recap: South By Southwest (Day 3)

Since most of yesterday's energy was spent on worshipping six-figure producers (the Neptunes' arena-ready rock band, N.E.R.D.), solid but safe indie rockers (Yo La Tengo, My Morning Jacket, Mark Kozelek), and a shriveled, cantankerous punk icon (Lou

Published: 2008-03-17 Provider: Artist Direct

New Yo La Tengo - "Here To Fall"

"Here To Fall" opens Yo La Tengo's Popular Songs, an album that seems like it was perfectly calibrated to usher in the summer (even though it doesn't actually come out until September). It has something to do with the textures and the way the band can we

Published: 2009-07-22 Provider: StereoGum Keywords: stereogum,indie,rock,mp3,blog

Your Weekend Of Found Objects And Dead Vermin [To Do]

Friday · Music round-up: Polyphonic Spree at Henry Fonda, Yo La Tengo at Ivar, Low Vs. Diamond at the Viper Room. · Join Dunder Mifflin's five-o'clock-shadowed upper-management as B.J. Novak takes to the Hollywood Improv stage. · AFI Fest continues with a screening of Sigur Ros - Heima, a documentary of the Icelandic band's recent tour of their homeland.Saturday · Saturday night music: Enon at the Echo, Minus the Beat at the Avalon, Jon Brion at Largo. · The Giant Robot Biennale celebrates its 50th issue with an exhibition of work featured in the magazine. At the Japanese American National Museum. Sunday · Do Make Say Think at Echoplex, at Rodrigo Y Gabriela at the Henry Fonda, Brand New at the Wiltern. · Skylight Books hosts an evening for Found Magazine, the periodical devoted to "lost, forgotten, left-behind and stepped-on objects," where you can meet next month's cover subject, Jim Carrey's career! · Dios de los Vermin is celebrated at Chinatown's Mountain Bar, with readings from Gustavo "Ask a Mexican" Arellano, Katrina essayist Duncan Murrell, short-story writer Mary Otis, and amusement park expert Kevin Mofett.

Published: 2007-11-02 Provider: Defamer Keywords: To Do