It’s officially “Autumn Sweater” season — both the garment and the 1997 Yo La Tengo song. So to celebrate, Boston’s Palehound unveiled a pitch-perfect cover of the shaker-laden track. Palehound’s ...

These days, Palehound, Ellen Kempner’s Boston-based indie rock trio, are pretty busy. A few months ago, they released Black Friday, their great new album. Tomorrow night, they begin a month-long tour ...

Yo La Tengo are not afraid of you and they will beat your ass with gnarled-yet-tender lullabies that could turn the title of 1997’s I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One quiet stunner “Autumn Sweater” ...

Yo La Tengo‘s eighth album, I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One, was released 25 years ago today (4/22/1997) and to celebrate, Matador Records has announced a new anniversary vinyl reissue via its ...

In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well—some inspired by a weekly theme and some not, but always songs worth hearing. This week, in advance of Valentine’s Day, we’re ...

I don’t know if “Drug Test” was a college radio hit in 1989 but it should’ve been. It’s catchy in a classical sense, like something Jackson Browne could’ve written, and it has a bit of edge with the ...

Yo La Tengo just keeps getting better and better. The venerable New Jersey indie trio’s fifteenth full-length album, There’s A Riot Going On, is an expansive collection comprising delicate mood pieces ...

Yo La Tengo has been releasing well-loved indie rock since the ’80s, and while the group’s albums are strikingly consistent, an interesting thing happened in February: The band dropped one of its best ...

Palehound (aka Ellen Kempner) released a new album, Black Friday, back in June via Polyvinyl. Now she has shared two new tracks, the new song “Your Boyfriend’s Gun” and a new cover of Yo La Tengo’s ...