Yo La Tengo has never gotten as much credit as they deserve. They loved the Velvet Underground before it was cool, when most of the current VU-aping acts were still in pull-ups. But more than that, they deserve more name-drops themselves. Jelone’s review of the Pains of Being Pure at Heart's album was spot on, saying the band “sounds like a tribute album to the Jesus and Mary Chain and the Ramones by Belle & Sebastian,” which was enough to send me running to the record store. [more]