Yo La Tengo Comes To Concord's Capitol Center 9/22

Seminal Indie-rockers Yo La Tengo come to Concord Capitol Center for the Arts on Thursday, September 22, at 7:30pm. Joining Yo La Tengo as an opening act will be NH's own Tan Vampires, chosen by the Boston Phoenix as New Hampshire's Best Band. Tickets start at $25.

Yo La Tengo was formed in 1984 and in 1993 moved to label Matador. The group has performed a three-night stint as the backing band for Ray Davies on his 2000 U.S. tour, and in 2002 released The Sounds of the Sounds of Science, a soundtrack to the undersea documentaries of French filmmaker Jean Painleve. That fall, they released the Nuclear War single, which featured several versions of Sun Ra's epic, and that winter performed their second annual Hanukkahpalooza, an eight-night musical festival at Hoboken, NJ's Maxwell's, which also led to a special limited-edition EP of Christmas songs. Yo La Tengo released Summer Sun in spring 2003, and that year Georgia Hubley performed in Mirror Man, an avant-garde rock opera by Pere Ubu's David Thomas.

In 2005, Matador Records paid homage to Yo La Tengo's 20th year as recording artists with the career-spanning compilations Prisoners of Love:A Smattering of Scintillating Senescent Songs: 1985-2003 and A Smattering of Outtakes and Rarities 1986-2003. The band returned the following year with the strong all-new album I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your A**. F*ckbook a covers album that the band released under the alias Condo F*cks, arrived in 2009, followed several months later by a compilation album named Popular Songs. Speaking of the seminal Indie-rock group, Matador says that Yo La Tengo, "understand that the dichotomy has never been love & hate-this life is about love & fear. And fear makes you run and hide, sit on your ass, do nothing but be consumed by it. To restate the obvious, Yo La Tengo are not afraid. They walk bravely forward, into the unknown, hand in hand."

Joining Yo La Tengo on September 22 is New Hampshire's own Tan Vampires, voted NH's Best New band by the Boston Phoenix in 2010. The five-piece outfit, which will release their new album "For Physical Fitness" on September 20, has mastered their own style of indie blues, where gothic, murky sound lurks and twists under clear and pained vocals, building into furious crescendos.

Presented in association with the Currier Museum of Art, featuring Backstage Pass: Rock & Roll Photography exhibition October 7, 2011 through Jan. 15, 2012. Featuring 268 photographs-many rarely seen by the public-the exhibition includes studio portraits and candid outtakes of famous rock & roll stars from Elvis Presley and Jimi Hendrix to Madonna and Courtney Love. Classic images by photographers Lee Friedlander, Kate Simon, Laura Levine, Baron Wolman, Bob Gruen, Jim Marshall, and Lynn Goldsmith are included in this extraordinary survey of 20th-Century music and popular culture.

Tickets are available now by calling 603-225-1111, online at www.ccanh.com, and at the box office on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Ticket prices: $45.00 Gold Circle, $35.00 Orchestra/Mezzanine, $25.00 Balcony.

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