Yo La Tengo started out in the mid-1980s and became perhaps the ultimate critics' band. Led by former NYC rock journalist Ira Kaplan, they syncretized numerous, often esoteric influences to eventually create a distinctive sound. They started out in heavy debt to the Velvet Underground, but by the late '90s, they were incorporating ambient electronic textures and more experimental song structures for a transcendent, dream-pop sound that brought them a whole new audience.

Listen to Yo La Tengo at Finetune.

• (2008)  Fakebook
• (2000)  And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
• (1997)  I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One
• (1996)  President Yo La Tengo/New Wave Hot Dogs
• (1995)  Electr-O-Pura
• (1993)  Painful

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