Yo La Tengo to Beat More U.S. Ass on Tour
While they may have knocked our dreidels flat this year by forgoing their annual "Hanukkahriffic" holiday bonanza at Maxwell's in Hoboken, New Jersey, Yo La Tengo are still poised to whet Americans' ass-beating appetites.

The veteran trio just announced a brief spate of U.S. dates that will see them scurrying up the Atlantic Seaboard in further support of 2006 Best New Music inductee I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass (Matador). Folks fortunate enough to have a Beat Your Ass Season Pass can score tickets right now for these gigs. The rest of us will have to wait a spell.

As previously reported, Yo La Tengo have a live iTunes Session EP set to land digitally on January 9.

Ass jokes, they never get old, I tell you!

Yo:

01-25 Louisville, KY - Bomhard Theater
02-02 Jacksonville, FL - Florida Theater
02-03 Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse
02-05 Chapel Hill, NC - Cat's Cradle
02-06 Chapel Hill, NC - Cat's Cradle
02-08 Charlottesville, VA - Starr Music Hall
02-10 Philadelphia, PA - Trocadero
02-19 Tokyo, Japan - Shibuya O-East
02-22 Nagoya, Japan - Nagoya Club Quattro
02-23 Osaka, Japan - Big Cat
02-24 Fukuoka, Japan - Drum Be-1
02-27 Perth, Australia - Amplifier *
03-01 Sydney, Australia - Metro #
03-03 Brisbane, Australia - Laneway Festival
03-04 Sydney, Australia - Laneway Festival
03-06 Melbourne, Australia - Corner Hotel #
03-08 Adelaide, Australia - Fowlers Live $
03-10 Meredith, Australia - Golden Plains Festival
03-12 Singapore, Singapore - Esplande Theatres on the Bay

* with New Rules For Boats
# with David Kilgour
$ with Clue to Kalo

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Yo La Tengo Drop Digital EP

What's the shortest route from playing a few songs to having a bona-fide release? Why, an iTunes live EP, of course, as Yo La Tengo shows us.

The band's Live Sessions EP wraps up a whopping four-song set recorded live earlier this year. The EP's available only as a digital release, and only from iTunes, so you DRM busters and haters of mp3-quality sound are out of luck.

Live Sessions EP's track listing is:

El Es Gay
Pass the Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind
The Weakest Part
Luci Baines

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Yo La Tengo - I'm Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass

this album is actually pretty catchy. i finally got around to hearing the whole thing.

favourite tracks:

01 - Pass the Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind
03 - Beanbag Chair
07 - The Room Got Heavy
10 - I Should've Known Better
11 - Ronnie
12 - The Weakest Part

Wow. I'd like to be Japanese/Australian/American right about now.

I still need to hear their newest album. When I have the funds, yes.