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We’ve been blessed with the annual ritual since 1996: each WFMU marathon our good New Jersey neighbors (give or take a New Yorker or two) Yo La Tengo have graciously dragged their gear down to our studios and helped us raise cash by attempting to play requested covers for real live pledgers. Any request.

the long awaited CD Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics is now available via the band´s site on their own Egon label. Pledgers who were owed this back in ’04 should have gotten a package as we speak. It’s a compilation of assorted cuts from the 96-03 years (they’re still doing the shows since then with Tom Scharpling as well as Gaylord), and includes such crowd-pleasers as Eno’s "Baby’s On Fire", Doug Sahm’s "Mendocino", Yes’ "Roundabout" and one helluva finale medley we won’t ruin by revealing