Whyy yo la tengo

Essential Albums. Albums See All. We Have Amnesia Sometimes Parallelogram Stuff Like That There Extra Painful Fade Deluxe Edition Popular Songs Top Videos See All. I'll Be Around Ohm Toymageddon feat. Ira Glass and Eugene Mirman Friday I'm In Love But ultimately, I guess we felt we were unmanageable. There's this common belief that artists should devote their time to creating the art and let other people deal with the paperwork. Why does it make sense for a band like Yo La Tengo to handle many of its own affairs?

Well, for a long time, there wasn't that much to handle! It wasn't taking up that much of our time. I always found it kind of funny when bands had managers before they had gigs.

Not only did it not seem like an essential piece to get going, it felt like a sort of hubris that we didn't have. Of course, we have an attorney and an accountant, but Georgia is a pretty good amateur accountant, and I read a lot of contracts, too.

We can't afford to just dump that stuff in other people's laps, so we do some of it, and then bring in people who know what they're doing. And we thrive by leaning on a lot of people who take on tasks above and beyond their job description. What sort of managerial tasks are taking up more of your time these days?

One of the things that has probably hurt us about not having a manager—and I'm comfortable with this! Unlike Fakebook , Stuff Like That There features bassist James McNew, who joined the band as a bassist in and quickly became an equal collaborator — and who, for the new album, learned upright bass, in part by taking a few lessons from free-jazz legend Henry Grimes. While the cover songs and Schramm's curling guitar might resemble the folk-tinged quartet that debuted with a self-released single in , Yo La Tengo have been many places in the intervening 30 years.

Though Kaplan and Hubley have relocated to Manhattan since the closing of Maxwell's, Hoboken's hometown rock club, the group still practices and picks up its mail in the Mile Square City, just as always, gathering nearly every day when they're not working elsewhere at a homey practice space overflowing with gear and ephemera.

Not even they seem to be sure. We visited Hoboken and heard the story of Yo La Tengo in 15 easy steps. They just make you feel self-conscious. But making the music feels so natural — it just comes out. This minute track closes out And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out, their masterful album, broadening their scope to encompass disco covers You Can Have It All , lounge funk Tired Hippo and menacing visions of Kate Moss Everyday alongside a perfecting of their usual dream-pop and dinner-jazz balladry.

The small town aspects of Hoboken are very appealing. But Nuclear War just seemed like the perfect reaction, the perfect way of playing in the December of Did it feel like an apocalyptic time? The trio murmur their agreement.