That’s Yo La Tengo, playing a “secret” show for KEXP donors down at the Triple Door. You can listen to the broadcast today at 4 p.m. on KEXP, or head down to the Showbox this evening for one or both of their sets. They have a wheel to spin that directs them into eight different programs. At the Triple Door, they settled on a “Freewheeling Yo La Tengo” format, doing songs generated by the questions in a Q&A. (Yes, “Cherry Chapstick” makes an appearance.) That’s why I now know they have rarely been arrested (Ira, loaned driver’s license; Georgia, pot; James, “the Man can’t catch me”), believe they helped defeat George Bush in 2004, and consider vomiting a huge, underreported part of being rockstars. Bassist James McNew also shared his contention that the Seattle Sonics had the best jersey color combination in the NBA, and that film ended with his appearance in The Parking Lot Movie.
