Yo La Tengo

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.

• Downy Mildew
• Dream Syndicate
• Eleventh Dream Day
• Galaxie 500
• Human Switchboard
• Jesus & Mary Chain
• My Bloody Valentine
• Sonic Youth
• Spacemen 3
• Tara Key
• The Pixies
• The Schramms
• Throwing Muses
• Ultra Vivid Scene
• Vulgar Boatmen

• Grateful Dead
• Jefferson Airplane
• Love
• Mission Of Burma
• Sun Ra
• Television
• The Beach Boys
• The Byrds
• The Clean
• The dB's
• The Feelies
• The Holy Modal Rounders
• The Kinks
• The Soft Boys
• The Velvet Underground

• Absinthe Blind
• Bedhead
• Folksongs For The Afterlife
• Idaho
• Longwave
• Low (Slowcore)
• M. Ward
• Mosquitos
• Norfolk & Western
• Simon Joyner
• The American Analog Set
• The Stratford 4
• Windsor For The Derby

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