Yo La Tengo
Albums: A Smattering of Outtakes and Rarities: 1986-2002, And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside‐Out, Autumn Sweater Remixes, Big Day Coming, Camp Yo La Tengo, Danelectro, Electr‐O‐Pura, Fakebook, From a Motel 6, Fuckbook, Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo, Here to Fall Remixes, I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass, I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One, Little Honda, Little Honda, Live Session EP, May I Sing With Me, Mishmoshi-Moshi, Mr. Tough, New Wave Hot Dogs, Nuclear War, Painful, Popular Songs, President Yo La Tengo, President Yo La Tengo / New Wave Hot Dogs, Prisoners of Love: A Smattering of Scintillating Senescent Songs: 1985-2003, Ride the Tiger, Saturday, Shaker, Strange But True, Sugarcube, Summer Sun, That Is Yo La Tengo, The Asparagus Song, The River of Water, The Sounds of the Sounds of Science, They Shoot, We Score, Today Is the Day, Tom Courtenay, Upside-Down, Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics, You Can Have It All
Genre: Indie rock, Alternative rock, Alternative country, Noise pop, Shoegazing, Experimental rock, Dream pop
Yo La Tengo, sometimes abbreviated as YLT, is an American alternative rock band formed in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1984. Since 1992, the lineup has consisted of Ira Kaplan (guitars, piano, vocals), Georgia Hubley (drums, piano, vocals), and James McNew (bass, vocals).
Despite achieving limited mainstream success, Yo La Tengo has been called "the quintessential critics' band" and maintains a strong cult following. The band is renowned for its encyclopedic repertoire of cover songs both in live performance and on record.
Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley formed the band as a husband/wife duo in 1984. They chose the name "Yo La Tengo" (Spanish for "I have it"; referring to a female-gender object or person, also "I've Got Her") in an effort to avoid any connotations in English. The name came from a baseball anecdote. During the 1962 season, New York Mets center fielder Richie Ashburn and Venezuelan shortstop Elio Chacón found themselves colliding in the outfield. When Ashburn went for a catch, he would scream, "I got it! I got it!" only to run into Chacón, who spoke only Spanish. Ashburn learned to yell, "¡Yo la tengo! ¡Yo la tengo!" instead. In a later game, Ashburn happily saw Chacón
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