Briefly: How Yo La Tengo Got Its Name

Take it from famed New York Metropolitan Ed Kranepool and watch this short video as to the true origin of the band’s moniker. Our confidential informant Jesse Jarnow passed that clip along to us with the footnote: “What’s more amazing, is that the video was shot on the softball field in Hoboken, right by the Elysian Fields, where baseball was more or less invented in the 19th century.”