The Scene Is Now
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The Scene is Now is a New York City
-based avant-garde jug band
from the 1980s. Their songs, most of which are compiled on the album The Oily Years, tend to be somewhat rough, lo-fi recordings. The best known of their songs, "Yellow Sarong", was later covered by Yo La Tengo
for their album Fakebook
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New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
-based avant-garde jug band
Jug band
A Jug band is a band employing a jug player and a mix of traditional and home-made instruments. These home-made instruments are ordinary objects adapted to or modified for making of sound, like the washtub bass, washboard, spoons, stovepipe and comb & tissue paper...
from the 1980s. Their songs, most of which are compiled on the album The Oily Years, tend to be somewhat rough, lo-fi recordings. The best known of their songs, "Yellow Sarong", was later covered by Yo La Tengo
Yo La Tengo
Yo La Tengo, sometimes abbreviated as YLT, is an American alternative rock band formed in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1984. Since 1992, the lineup has consisted of Ira Kaplan , Georgia Hubley , and James McNew .Despite achieving limited mainstream success, Yo La Tengo has been called "the quintessential...
for their album Fakebook
Fakebook (album)
Fakebook is the fourth official, full-length album released, in 1990, by alternative rock band Yo La Tengo. Comprising eleven cover songs as well as five originals, this album is regarded as a departure from their previous albums due to it containing mostly folk songs...
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Discography
- Burn All Your Records
- Total Jive
- Tonight We Ride
- The Oily Years