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Yo La Tengo beat Bush's ass
American indie trio Yo La Tengo have told music website Gigwise that their president, ol' Dubya, is “pandering to his extremist base.”
Bassist James McNew told the site:
"I despise our government and I despise how we act in the world but I am not leaving. America is The Ramones and the Velvet Underground.
"Luckily most people are okay with that and they realise that most of the country does not support the views of the people in charge.”
Yo La Tengo's new album, I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass, is released through Matador on September 11. It sounds neither like The Ramones nor The Velvet Underground.
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It should be called...
"I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat YO As"
See what i've done there? It's thier name innit!
Always thinking.....
i dunno
i think Yo La Tengo have been kind of the closest a modern-day band gets to the Velvet Underground, if only insofar as they both have long droney distorted songs and quieter chilled-out acoustic songs. That sounds like a lame comparison, but they ARE comparable, trust me.
I think
just about every decent guitar band in the world is comparable to The Velvet Underground somehow. If they haven't influenced them they've influenced someone who has influenced them. I don't worship them like some of my friends but they really did kick off quite a lot of things.
I really like this album title but can't be arsed with the senseless pop-political comments.
hold your horses
politics is already kept out of politics, so maybe it is ok for some debate to be opened up in the relm of music. It ain't gonna harm anyone if Billy Ocean comes out as a green anarchist, or Sade admits to being an EU sceptic. I want more!
I like how
This is considered ballsy when they live in New York City, which has voted Democrat for fifty million years. I do like that drummer though and she can sing too.
or
George Bush