NME — Teenage Fanclub, Mogwai, Arab Strap, Yo La Tengo and more donate tracks to charity birthday competition more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by David Andrako "Boo Todd relentlessly. Throw shit at him. When Jon (Benjamin) and I tell you to stop, ignore us and boo louder." - David Cross's instructions to the audience just before Todd Barry's "surprise" appearance. The Eugene... more info

WFMU's Beware of the Blog — WFMU presents Kiwi rock godfathers the Clean for a rare New Jersey show on Wednesday, September 29th at Maxwells, 1038 Washington Street, in Hoboken! Also, opening acts Dump (with James McNew of Yo La Tengo, also playing out on a... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Yo La Tengo Hanukkah 2008 (more by Tim Griffin) Maxwell's reports that, after a year off (they last did it in 2008), Yo La Tengo are returning to Maxwell's for Hanukkah this year. As always, expect the full lineups to... more info

Stereogum — Expanding on Yo La Tengo’s approach to covering Matador bands while reading the lyrics off a sheet of paper in front of you, Spoon gave a go at the late Jay Reatard’s “No Time” while performing at Oak Ridge Park in Clark, New Jersey. It’s m... more info

Stereogum — This is getting meta. A few months ago Times New Viking made like labelmates Yo La Tengo at an Ohio in-store for the latter’s “Nothing To Hide” video. Now Ira, Georgia and James return the favor, covering “Move To California” at this past w... more info

Guardian Music — Larmer Tree Gardens, DorsetFew festivals have surroundings as appealing as End of the Road, a lovingly put together event on the hilly border between Wiltshire and Dorset where you can play table tennis in a clearing, gather round a piano in the wood... more info

Stereogum — This past weekend Larmer Tree Gardens, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, hosted the fifth annual End Of The Road Festival. This year’s lineup continued the festival’s peripheral deviation from its folk, Americana, and alt-country roots, featuring Yo La ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — a r n e l said... V.A. - The Best Of Swing http://bestfbothworlds.blogspot.com jofel said... The Long Ryders: - Gunslinger Man - Capturing The Flag http://pulsatta.blogspot.com arthurfromholland said... Little Feat Waiting For Columbus(1977) in me... more info

KEXP Seattle — As you’ve probably noticed over the almost 3 years (!) of this particular blog series, the KCMU DJs were not just a bunch of opinionated jerks; they were quite intelligent and, usually, pretty knowledgeable about the music they were writing about (... more info