C or D : Yo La Tengo

feel like we've been in the same room tons of times probably

bet I could find plenty of evidence on ILM confirming this!

I can't remember exactly what he said, but Ira actually had a few moments of playful banter with the crowd at the Chicago show.

The first was a jokey acknowledgment that he didn't say "hello" to the crowd until four or five songs in and the other was in response to some overzealous "woo"ing when they announced they were going to play a song not from the new album. He seemed in good spirits all night.

Yeah at the show I saw they did 3-4 songs from the new album and Ira made a low-key joke about "For those keeping score — and I know some of you are — those were all from the new record." Kind of a nod to their obsessive-geek fans, also implicitly acknowledging that he's an obsessive-geek music guy himself. Or that's how I took it.

At the DC show he stopped "Periodically Double or Triple" before doing the 2nd verse and humorously explained he regretted writing that part because it was too brash, and didn't want to contribute to today's thoughtless climate.

8 minutes of Time Fades Away with Mark Freeman of NNB

Holy shit, I haven't seen him on a stage since early 80s. NNB and YLT kindred guitar drone/noise spirits for sure.

oh wow you saw NNB?

Yes, Red House moreso. I'm old.

how was NNB live? I don't know Red House, was that a later project?

Great dance and trance band with clashing guitars, like Television. By the time I saw NNB Cindy was already playing drums, so they were halfway to the Red House lineup. There is/was a live Red House song on youtube but I'm not finding it at the moment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnSNEymcd_8

Oh they were still NNB at the time, here it is! I know we've had this convo on another thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUSTH7qMwb4

"Slack" rules so hard, yeah we've talked abt this on other threadz

Well, I just learned the bass line for "25 Reasons" this afternoon, so thanks thread!

and here they are, more North American tour dates!

06-09 Jersey City, New Jersey - White Eagle Hall
06-10 Washington, D.C. - The Atlantis
06-13 Portland, ME - State Theatre
06-14 South Deerfield, MA - Tree House Brewing Company (Outdoors)
06-15 Montreal, Quebec - Corona Theatre
06-16 Toronto, Ontario - Phoenix Concert Theatre
06-18 Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club
06-19 Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club
06-21 Homer, NY - Center For the Arts
06-22 Detroit, MI - Majestic Theatre
06-23 Kalamazoo, MI - Bell’s Beer Garden
06-24 Chicago, IL -Metro
06-26 Knoxville, TN - Bijou Theatre
06-27 Birmingham, AL - Saturn
06-28 Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse

i've never seen em before, def gonna try to go to that jersey city show

man I really blew it not seeing them in the PNW this time, it was right at the start of the tour and I wasn't paying as much attention

omg, I would love to go to that Tree House Brewing Company show.

yesssssssss i couldn't get tickets to the last chicago show but snagged two for this one

Ha, you know a band understands it's hit the sweet spot when it extends the tour.

I guess I'm going to finally visit Bell's beer garden

Phew, I'm glad I went to the Asheville show because I'm going to be out of town for the Knoxville show.

finally got the vinyl. brain capers ends with a lock groove and there's a secret bonus instrumental track on side 4 (though it's kind of annoying)

great acoustic set last night at a benefit. 2 highlights from James, Sun Ra's Nuclear War and Black Flag's Nervous Breakdown.

I put together this little YLT deep cuts mix ... a good listen, I think!

https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2023/05/22/yo-la-tengo-deeper-into-deep-cuts/

Ira throws out the first pitch at a Mets game!

ole pal @noah_s just texted this in from the first base line pic.twitter.com/0DNv21coiy

— joel berk (@pfcidb) June 1, 2023

pretty good!

pretty good pitch too! Ira must have loved that.

(lol xpost)

Matador has tweeted video of Ira's honorary first pitch too.

I need to dig into Tyler's deep cuts mix soon

I just played it, very worthwhile. But not downloadable (didn't they used to be?).

it's just one big mp3 file but if you right click / save as you should be able to download it.

aw yeah "Nutricia" is one of my very faves

that's a song I could just play on a loop forever I think

xp
OK, I got it, thanks. My PC said "save link as" and I thought that would just copy the link, not the file linked to.

been on a big ylt kick, i'm familiar with the core four (painful -> and then nothing) but little outside of it. and then nothing is one of my favorite records of all time so it's been wonderful to discover that they made a few more slow motion nighttime insomniac records just like it (summer sun and there's a riot going on) and i adore them as well!!!

don't sleep on the new one either, fantastic stuff

i'm gonna listen to it today!!! :)

fade and i am not afraid of you... are both very good too

but this stupid world is a top 3 ylt album

hard agree

Their sea creature documentary soundtrack is great too

yes!