This week’s concert series is a double header, and a gift to Lise.
First up is Stereolab, live in Danbury, Connecticut on September 21 1994. It’s the full band performing at the Tuxedo Junction just after they released Mars Audiac Quintet.
If you’ve never heard them, it’s worth a listen. It’s rather hypnotic and musical, foreign and familiar, electronic and dancer. I think I may have played a different show by them a long while back, but this is good.
Second up is a Yo La Tengo show from January 4, 1994 in Mönchengladbach, Germany, not long after they first signed with Matador and released “Painful.”
I first heard of Yo La Tengo from animator Faith Hubley in the early 90s. She said her daughter Georgia was in a band of that name. I hadn’t heard of them, and assumed that it was some sort of latin group playing modern tangos. I was, uh, very incorrect.
Yo La Tengo rocks. Georgia, who I had known only as a voice in the animated film by her parents titled “Cockaboody,” plays drums as part of this indie power trio. I think they can be at times considered shoegazer, but Lise would have to confirm that sort of detail for me.
Anyhow, it should be a good show. Enjoy!
