Yo La Tengo live

haha, I should have just asked you.

They’re doing just one Chanukah show this year, and it is virtual on December 18 at 8 pm eastern ( after sundown of last day of Chanukah). It’s a ticketed online benefit for save our stages . Opening act and comedian tba.

TheGreenespace.org / ylt for more info. Show will also be rebroadcast on the 19th at 7 am and 1 pm. Eastern

This is happening now but I forgot to sign up in time, and you can’t seem to join in progress; BUT there are repeat screenings over the weekend that one can sign up for. $20 benefit show

I'm watching right now and four songs in: it's worth it.

Sorta skipped the Sedaris set, I wasn't in the mood for it.

Autumn Sweater on that baby grand sounding just perfect

Whoa Ivan Julian from the Voidoids in the house!

This is so much fun.

I'll discuss the specifics tomorrow as to not spoil curmudgeon.

Thanks. Current repeat showing is up to David Sedaris, after Amy Rigby .

won't spoil anything for those who haven't watched yet, but this was great. (though still vaguely depressing in the way that these covid livestreams tend to be)

http://www.jessejarnow.com/2020/12/yo-la-tengo-hanukkah-2020-night-9-setlist/

I watched afternoon screening today. I think there’s at least one more ( but no one else has posted that they’re watching a later repeat telecast).

Cool that Ivan Julian ( who was being treated for cancer earlier) was up onstage with them. Yes, Autumn Sweater with Ira on piano was nice. I liked the Flo & Eddie cover and Rosemarie Smile a little Smile by the Flying Machines

Even though I don’t live anywhere near NYC and probably wouldn’t quite be ready to go yet even if I did, still getting some major FOMO about these Hanukkah shows. Killer setlists.

my exact thoughts this week ^

Sun Ra opened and sat in two nights ago, last night:

whole show (minus encore) with Marisa Anderson & William Tyler on guitars/keyboards

!!!

Jesse Jarnow doing a good job of updating the details here

Sun Ra opened and sat in two nights ago

Are you sure? He's been dead a while...

*sigh* his Arkestra

Blondie Sun Ra is a group!

man, this sounds like a great one too:

Yo La Tengo at Bowery Ballroom
1 December 2021
*(Hanukkah, night 4)*

opening act: Cup (Nels Cline & Yuka C. Honda)
comedian: Jo Firestone
mix CD: Blockhead
benefiting: NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund

whole show with Nels Cline on guitar & Yuka C. Honda on electronics

Out of the Pool
Little Eyes
One PM Again (without YH)
Can’t Forget (without YH)
Lewis (without YH)
Tears Are In Your Eyes
The Race Is On Again (without YH)
Above the Sound
I Found A Reason (Velvet Underground) (with John Cameron Mitchell on vocals)
Waves of Fear (Lou Reed) (with JCM)
Clumsy Grandmother Serves Delicious Desert By Mistake (Jad Fair)
Out the Window
Styles of the Times
Tom Courtenay
Little Honda (The Hondells)

*(encore)*
Wasn’t Born To Follow (Carole King/Gerry Goffin)
Cool Metro (David Johanson/Syl Sylvain)
Hanky Panky Nohow (John Cale) (without YH & NC)

Wow, great encore selections there

Low opened last night!!!

remaining nights encores and special guests looked impressive too

http://www.jessejarnow.com/2021/12/yo-la-tengo-hanukkah-2021-night-8-setlist/

night 8 encores
he Whole of the Law (The Only Ones)
Dum Dum (Bush Tetras) (with Cynthia Sley and Pat Place)
Run Run Run (Velvet Underground) (with CS & PP)
Too Many Creeps (Bush Tetras) (with CS & PP)
Here Comes My Baby (Cat Stevens) (with Marilyn Kaplan/vocals & Mark Luecke/whistling)
My Little Corner of the World (Bob Hilliard, Lee Pockriss) (with MK)

Yeah, what a run.

Are they still not allowing tapers? I would happily pay for recordings of these shows.

https://www.jambase.com/article/yo-la-tengo-2022-hanukkah-lambchop-pavement

Night one of Hanukkah shows had some
guests including Ibold from Pavement, Lambchop guy, Barrence Whitfield & his guitarist Pete plus more . A Clean cover, some Lieber-Stoller songs

credit to jesse jarnow for this detailed updates:

Yo La Tengo at Bowery Ballroom
18 December 2022
*(Hanukkah, night 1)*

opening act: Barrence Whitfield & the Savages
comedian: Liz Miele
mix CD: Nick Lowe
benefiting: Attic Youth Center

Seven Day Weekend (Doc Pomus) (sung as “Eight Day Weekend”) (with CJ Camerieri & Mike McGinnis on horns)
Moby Octopad (with CJC & MM)
Before We Run > (with CJC & MM)
She May, She Might >
Tiny Birds
Aselestine (with CJC)
Eight Candles (Sam Elwitt) (with CJC & MM)
Or Thousands of Prizes (Lambchop) (with Kurt Wagner on vocals, CJC & MM)
Season of the Shark
The Ballad of Red Buckets
Styles of the Times
Some Kinda Fatigue
Sugarcube
Ohm
Point That Thing Somewhere Else (The Clean) (with Mark Ibold on bass)

*(encore)*
Long Gone (The Customs) (with Peter Greenberg on guitar & vocals)
I Smell A Rat (Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller) (with Barrence Whitfield on vocals, Steve Lagrega on saxophone, & PG)
One Bad Stud (Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller) (with BW, SL, & PG)
Shopping For Clothes (Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller) with BW, KW, SL, & PG)

Yo La Tengo at Bowery Ballroom
19 December 2022
*(Hanukkah, night 2)*

opening act: Gina Birch
comedian: Brittany Carney
mix CD: Ira
benefiting: One Acre Fund

Steve Shelley on drums for whole show

The Story of Jazz
Radar Eyes (The Godz)
Here To Fall
Here You Are >
I Was the Fool Beside You For Too Long
Madeline
Song For Mahlia
Shadows
Detouring America With Horns (acoustic)
Sunday Morning (Velvet Underground)
Stupid Things
Big Day Coming (fast)
The Kid With the Replaceable Head (Richard Hell)
Drug Test
The Story of Yo La Tango

*(encore)*
Tell Me When It’s Over (Dream Syndicate)
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow (Carole King/Gerry Goffin) (with Gina Birch on vocals)
Solitary Man (Neil Diamond) (with Corin Tucker on vocals)
Shape of Things To Come (Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil) (with CT)
The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana) (Mark Barkan/Ritchie Adams) (with GB, CT, & Vicki Peterson on vocals)

Some day I would love to attend one of these shows.

I want to attend also. when I noticed that they were on sale this year, they had just sold out all 8 nights and resale prices were too high.

http://www.jessejarnow.com/category/ylt/

Jesse has the details as noted.

Gina Burch from the Raincoats, Vicki Peterson from Bangles

i always say i'm gonna go and never get it together and then promise i'll do it next year, repeatx20, but reading jesse jarnow's updates has become a holiday tradition of its own for me

definitely a vicarious pleasure to see the setlists / special guests every morning. I flew out for the Feelies last month so my live music budget was blown, but I'll make it out ... someday? Who knows how long they'll do this, seems like a lot of work!

Agreed, I hope long enough for me to attend some day! Helps that they seem to really enjoy doing this.

I totally get why they want to keep these as a special event, but I do wish they'd relent on the "no tapers" stance, or at least release some of these somehow.

I didn't make it to that Jersey City Feelies show but as a local I've been spoiled with many Feelies or Feelies-adjacent shows over the years.

the feelies / willies show was magical, so glad I finally bit the bullet and went out there.

there are tapes of the Hanukkah shows, they're just supposed to be kept on the down-low amongst fans, not shared around publicly. if you need a link, hit me at tywilc at gmail.com

night 3 w/ Burnt Sugar opening looked great . A Bobby Blue Bland cover by YLT and special guests

http://www.jessejarnow.com/category/ylt/

Ryan Sawyer on drums, Lee Ranaldo on guitar/bells, Bill Nace on taishōgoto for whole set except as indicated.

o_O

haha yeah, pretty amazing

man that sounds awesome, i saw bill nace solo ripping on that taishōgoto over the summer and it was fucking nuts, so cool

calvin trillin (who just turned 87!) read at last night’s show, ira seemed totally starstruck

Dawn Richard did the mixtape one of the nights ( on same label as YLT)

Some year I will go to NY and see Yo La Tengo on one of the 8 nights of Hanukkah shows, but they always sell out quickly before I realize it

Yeah, a YLT Hanukkah show is definitely on my bucket list. But, as you mention, getting tickets is one thing, but the bigger obstacle is the cost of getting to NY (well, close enuff) and a place to stay.

i just discovered there is a band called Yo No La Tengo :)

lol

I almost was in NYC while the shows were going on and briefly looked into a ticket, but the secondary market prices were higher than airfare!

I guess I was really lucky to get into the one I saw. Amusingly the guest was Jeff Tweedy, who I've seen multiple times back in Illinois.

that new live-in-the-studio YLT Ep is fantastic — great sound overall ... https://yolatengo.bandcamp.com/album/the-bunker-sessions

seeing them out here in a couple months, can't wait, it's been wayyyyyy too long.

Got back into these guys hard this year. Saw them on the most recent tour for the first time since Summer Sun and now I regret the two decades of not making an effort. Just incredible live.

Yeah, I honestly never stopped liking them, but didn't expect to go into another full-on fan binge like I did this year. Saw them both times they swung through Chicago, making up for the long gap since I'd last caught 'em.

I know I posted about it on another YLT thread, but their show I saw in March was just fantastic. I'd seen them before and liked them for years, but I was really pretty blown away. I'm sure it partly is a matter of circling back around to them, but also I think at least as a live band they just get better and better.

It helps that I also really like the album they were touring on, will definitely be on my year-end list.

Thanks for the heads-up re: the Bunker session--sounds great! Was likewise really impressed by the Big Thief Bunker session recorded in 2019/released in 2021...