INDY Week | Marc Masters

After three decades, Yo La Tengo isn't ready for definition just yetnew

"I've always felt that if we're playing it, it's us. It's a legitimate part of our lives and our personalities, and something that we feel so strongly about that we committed it to a record."

INDY Week | Marc Masters | 01-16-2013 | Music

The strange story and sound behind Supreme Dicks' new box setnew

Supreme Dicks' sense of unhinged possibility leads to a new brand of magical chaos.

INDY Week | Marc Masters | 06-01-2012 | Profiles & Interviews

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The Fresh & Onlys' Different Rocknew

The difference between surfaces and what's below them is a theme that runs through The Fresh & Onlys' music, a bright amalgam of garage, folk and psych. There's something idiosyncratic, however, in their meld of rock history and of-the-moment vision.

INDY Week | Marc Masters | 11-03-2010 | Profiles & Interviews

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On Album 12, Yo La Tengo Again Turns Familiar Music Inside Outnew

For 25 years, Yo La Tengo has taken a contrarian approach to originality. Unafraid to evoke other artists, genres and time periods, the trio has dabbled in folk, pop, doo-wop, classic rock and the avant-garde.

INDY Week | Marc Masters | 09-18-2009 | Profiles & Interviews

'70s Commune Band YaHoWha 13 Opens the Fold With a Drag City Collectionnew

Magnificence offers nine vital tracks that touch on garagey psych-pop, ritualized jamming, improvised noise and frantic chanting. The band may follow its own logic, but it's a committed one, roughly like a spiritualized version of Captain Beefheart's Magic Band.

INDY Week | Marc Masters | 07-17-2009 | Profiles & Interviews

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