Yo La Tengo may have 10 years on their slacker rock colleagues, but don't mistake Ira Kaplan. Georgia Hubley and James McNew for aging punks or alternative rock dinosaurs. Yo La Tengo was indie rock before there was an indie rock.

Long before the Superchunks, Pavements and Sebadohs raised the flag, Yo La Tengo was quietly making music on their own uncompromising terms for a modest network of friends and' fans....