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Yo La Tengo will play the music you hear between Morning Edition stories live on Aug. 25.

Yo La Tengo: Morning Edition’s In-House Band For A Day

“This morning thing’s not really working for me,” says guitarist/vocalist Ira Kaplan. Well, too bad. Yo La Tengo played the music you hear between stories live.

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Ira Kaplan (left) and James McNew of Yo La Tengo in NPR's New York City studios.

Yo La Tengo: ‘When We Let The World In, It Can Be So Profound’

The New Jersey band’s members say their longevity comes from not projecting ideas onto themselves. Their new album, Stuff Like That There, features covers and reworked songs.

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Yo La Tengo.

First Listen: Yo La Tengo, ‘Stuff Like That There’

Amid two invigorating new songs and three fresh renditions of Yo La Tengo classics, nine wide-ranging covers are performed with varying degrees of sweetness, sadness, silliness and joy.

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Yo La Tengo ushers in the apocalypse by covering The Cure's "Friday I'm In Love."

First Watch: Yo La Tengo, ‘Friday I’m In Love’

And we thought a new album of cover songs by the band was good news.

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