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Watch Yo La Tengo Cover Lou Reed and Jonathan Richman With Nels Cline and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy

For the sixth night of Yo La Tengo’s Hanukkah stay in Hoboken, N.J., the gang invited Mission of Burma and Bob Weston to join them for the fifth night. For the seventh night during the festival of lights, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Nels Cline and the Cairo Gang hopped on the bill....  read more

Pitchfork Fest '08 Day One: Looking Back On 'Don't Look Back'

(FLAVA FAV!)It took a field of hipsters to hold back reality t.v.’s favorite half of Public Enemy last night in Chicago’s Union Park, as Chuck D shot the gun on Pitchfork’s third effort in the festival realm with the opening diatribes of hip-hop’s seminal album, It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back, sans his counterpart.  Chuck D upon Flavor’s belated entrance: “Where the fuck were you on “Bring The Noise?”Flavor Fav: “I don’t know Chuck, I was with the family.”...  read more

Mission of Burma - ONoffON

Though they’ve been gone for 22 years, having broken up in 1983 after guitarist Roger Miller’s tinnitus grew so severe he could no longer wield the six-string responsible for his band’s signature sound...  read more