Future Nostalgia – The Antlers @ Webster Hall

The Antlers @ Webster Hall - December 10, 2011
Photos & Review: James M. Graham

The last time I saw The Antlers was when they opened for The National at The Electric Factory in Philadelphia two years ago. I was interested (Hospice had just been released) and I tried to pay attention, but it was not their crowd and not their venue and not their night.

Saturday at Webster Hall was a different story altogether. Returning from Turkey on December 6 and a long tour of the world including recent dates in Switzerland, Austria, Germany and Sweden, they landed back at home in New York City.

At Webster Hall – Sold out fire-trap.

They hit the stage with “Parenthesis” from Burst Apart and within moments, they owned the room.

A four-piece now, with an additional guitarist, they soared through “No Widows,” and “Kettering”- the first song from Hospice and a reference to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, the “world’s oldest and largest cancer center” located here in NYC.

After three songs, the crowd was rapt and avidly appreciating the song cycle that the band was unfolding.

Listen: Yo La Tengo @ the Bell House (Night 1)

Ira, Georgia and James being adorable

On Tuesday I had the pleasure of seeing and photographing Yo La Tengo for one of their Wheel Spin shows at the Bell House in Brooklyn. Now, courtesy of New York City's live music archivist nyctaper, you can listen to that show in full. If you really need a reason to do that as soon as humanly possible, here is their setlist:

Set 1
Griselda
Georgia vs Yo La Tengo
Song For Mahlia
Moby Octopad
Avalon or Someone Very Similar
Let’s Save Tony Orlando’s House
Watch Out For Me, Ronnie
The Evil That Men Do
Pass The Hatchet, I Think I’m Goodkind

Set 2

Our Way To Fall
Barnaby, Hardly Working
Demons
Stockholm Syndrome
The Crying of Lot G
Double Dare
Nothing To Hide
Decora
I Heard You Looking
The Door Into Summer [Monkees]
Drug Test
For The Turnstiles [Neil Young]

Thanks to nyctaper for posting our photo and link!