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Songs We Love: Yo La Tengo, 'For You Too'

Hoboken's homegrown indie-rock heroes offer a poultice for the soul from their atmospheric new album.
Yo La Tengo's <em>There's A Riot Going On </em>comes out March 16.

In 1963, in the wake of JFK's assassination, said, "This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before." That also seems to have been 's response to the political

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