Jad Fair & Yo La Tengo "Strange but True" Reissues "Don't Panic" & their breakthrough

"Don't Panic" & their breakthrough smash hit "Yellow" which remains one of the group's most popular songs

composed by Jun'ichi Masuda

1975: America takes the stage at the Hollywood Bowl backed by a symphony conducted by George Martin

and debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200

McTernan's involvement was incredibly instrumental in channeling that spirit and energy - the intense urgency of "Killing Time

Jad Fair & Yo La Tengo "Strange but True" Reissues "Don't Panic" & their breakthroughJad Fair & Yo La Tengo's Collaborative Album Strange but True on Colored LP. In the 90s, Jad Fair had five favorite bands and songwriters: Daniel Johnston, The Pastels, Sonic Youth, Teenage Fanclub, and Yo La Tengo. Its a good list, sure, but whats most remarkable about it is that, in the course of a dozen years or so, Fair made music with all of them in one form or another. Jad Fair has been prolific for half a century now, long before the Internet