Buy Tickets Now: Yo La Tengo @ ABC, 6 Nov

Like Sonic Youth if Kim'n'Thurston had fallen in love while chatting baseball instead of art, and if Lee Ranaldo was a Simpsons buff, Yo La Tengo have long been US alternative's secret weapon. There's a lack of mystique about this goofy New Jersey trio which belies the fact that they're just as prone to tossing off moments of transcendence as their NYC counterparts are at consciously creating them. If you like your droning instrumentals with side orders of classy pop and drunken, fuzzy garage-rock, topped off with vocals that are rarely in tune but sound ridiculously good anyway, join those in the know at ABC in early November.