Ira Kaplan
What's Going on Sunday?
Sunday’s NYC-area shows include Les Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade, Robert Glasper, The Wonder Years, Teenage Halloween, A Place to Bury Strangers, Xiu Xiu, and more.
Watch Yo La Tengo's Ira Kaplan throw out the first pitch at today's Mets / Phillies game
Meanwhile, Yo La Tengo‘s tour starts next week
Corin Tucker, Steve Shelley, Gina Birch & more joined Yo La Tengo for Hanukkah Night 2 (review, setlist)
Gina Birch opened and Brittany Carney performed stand up, and other guests included The Bangles’ Vicki Peterson and The Dream Syndicate‘s Steve Wynn.
What's Going on Wednesday?
Wednesday’s NYC-area shows include Beak>, My Chemical Romance, Jimmy Eat World, Iceage, La Dispute, and more.
John Cameron Mitchell, Amanda Palmer, Dionne Warwick, more playing gun safety benefit
”Enough. A Benefit Concert Supporting Gun Safety” happens on Wednesday at City Winery.
Members of REM, Yo La Tengo, dB's & more played "The Songs of Big Star" in Brooklyn (pics, video, setlist)
In addition to the songs of Big Star and Chris Bell, the tribute show also had Mike Mills singing REM’s “Don’t Go Back to Rockville.“
'The Songs of Big Star' on BV presale (password here); Chris Bell Big Star book in the shop
“The Songs of Big Star” concert features Big Star drummer Jody Stephens and members of R.E.M., Yo La Tengo, The Posies, The dB’s and more.
Mems of REM, Yo La Tengo & more playing orchestral Big Star tribute concert in Brooklyn (BV presale)
Members of R.E.M., Yo La Tengo, The Posies, The dB’s and more will be part of an “The Songs of Big Star,” a “one of a kind acoustic, orchestrated” tribute concert at Brooklyn’s…
Chris Stamey & Kirk Ross reissuing 'The Robust Beauty' (hear track ft Ira Kaplan)
Stamey is known for power pop melodies with The dB’s but this was an experimental, improvisational and impressionistic instrumental album based around “a severely detuned electric guitar, on a table, that is pounded and scrapped with a railroad spike.”
CARM releases guest-filled LP (Sufjan, Bon Iver, etc), discusses the music that influenced it
Even if you don’t know CJ Camerieri by name, you’ve probably heard his horn playing. He’s a member of yMusic and he’s played on records by Taylor Swift, Paul Simon, Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens, The National…