Yo La Tengo puts its next tour in the hands of the Wheel of Fortune
After playing shows for over a quarter of a century, you have to find new ways to spice things up. Hence Yo La Tengo’s just-announced Wheel of Fortune-inspired tour (and unexpected tribute to Charlie O’Donnell), where the band will play two back-to-back sets, with the direction the first being decided by fate, physics, and a giant spinning wheel. At the beginning of the show, the band will bring said wheel on stage and spin it, and whatever it lands on will dictate how the band spends the next 45 minutes of their time, whether it be dipping into songs from their side project Condo Fucks or letting James McNew do some little-seen-live Dump stuff, or acting out a classic TV sitcom. The possibilities, as outlined on the group’s website (where you can also practice spinning the wheel):
1. Condo Fucks:
50 million Fuckbook fans can’t be wrong!
2. Dump:
Why should Nijmegen and Claremont get all the fun? Is this the night Dump plays your town? Only the wheel knows.
3. The Freewheeling Yo La Tengo:
You ask a question; we answer the question, and maybe follow up with a song.