On February 10, 2023, the band released their seventeenth studio album This Stupid World .
In 2020, Yo La Tengo released We Have Amnesia Sometimes which was recorded over a 10-day period from late April to early May amid the COVID-19 pandemic . The album consists of five instrumental, ambient compositions which were recorded with one microphone in the room and the band spread out…
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In 2018, Yo La Tengo released their 15th studio album, There’s a Riot Going On , which Pitchfork decided ‘reflects the group’s greatest and most instantly recognizable strengths’.
In 2017, the band played two dates in New York City with Robyn Hitchcock. The performances included the Hitchcock album “Black Snake Diamond Role” in its entirety, as well as collections of classic Hitchcock songs and covers of other artists.
In 2016, the band released Murder in the Second Degree , a second compilation of their live impromptu cover-song performances on the New Jersey freeform radio station, WFMU .
On August 28, 2015, Yo La Tengo released Stuff Like That There , an album (and “a sequel of sorts to Fakebook “) of re-recorded versions of some of their old songs as well as covers, including songs by The Cure, Hank Williams, and Sun Ra.
In 2014 they toured and performed live onstage as film maker Sam Green live narrated an evolving version of his new film The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller in Austin, Burlington, Detroit, Ithaca, Portland, New Orleans and Vancouver.
In 2014, they played an Indiana-based Night Ranger cover band Bobby Night Ranger in the final episode of season 6 of the television series Parks and Recreation .
The following album, Fade , was released on January 15, 2013.
In 2012 Yo La Tengo recorded a cover of Todd Rundgren’s ” I Saw the Light ” for a fund raising CD titled Super Hits Of The Seventies for radio station WFMU . In August 2012 they announced the release of an EP in September 2012, to be followed by…
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