News: Yo La Tengo Kick Off "Freewheeling" Tour Tonight

Yo La Tengo Kick Off "Freewheeling" Tour Tonight
Look, Ira's freewheelin' already

Photo by Kirstie Shanley

Loose, limber, and ready to lay it all out, the venerable New Jersey institution known as Yo La Tengo will lope their way around North America on their Freewheeling Yo La Tengo tour, which kicks off this evening in Pittsburgh.

For a month, the band will play shows of an unstructured nature, using last year's righteous ...Beat Your Ass LP as the jump off, but with nary a musical diversion too far out, nary an anecdote too rambling and incoherent. Their website describes the tour like so: "A little bit 'Storytellers', a little bit 'Unplugged', with a soupçon
of their famously varied Hanukkah shows, it will feature the band
playing an almost-acoustic set of songs from their entire catalog, with
stories about their life as a band, and an encouraged back-and-forth
with the audience."

Freewheeling, see? That's just how they're gonna roll. [MORE...]

MP3: Yo La Tengo: I Feel Like Going Home [live at KCMP]

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