More cool things about Yo La Tengo:
"There are also the performances on Jersey freeform station WFMU's Annual fundraising marathon, and, of course, the famous Hannukah shows, where the band takes up residency at Maxwell's in Hoboken, NJ, each night, with guests galore and mix CDs on the table. A band that once played the Velvet Underground on film (1996's [I Shot Andy Warhol) and is the snap in one of The Onion's most infamous headlines ("37 Record Store Clerks Feared Dead in Yo La Tengo Concert Disaster") probably isn't just a great cult, but a mini-universe. And that "probably" becomes a "likely" when you factor in the film score work—2005's Junebug, 2006's Old Joy (with Will "Spooner" Oldham) and the new, super-risque Shortbus, by John Cameron Mitchell, among it."
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http://www.glidemagazine.com/articles267.htmlThey appear on WFMU during fund-raising and take "stump the band" phone-in requests. A compilation of these oft-ramshackle covers is available ("Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics") via their website (http://www.yolatengo.com).