Biography
Guitarist/vocalist Ira Kaplan fronts the critically acclaimed indie rock-band Yo La Tengo. Kaplan and his wife, drummer/vocalist Georgia Hubley, founded the Hoboken, NJ, group in 1984, dealing with a revolving ensemble of music artists until the entrance of bassist Adam McNew in 1991. Kaplan was blending bands on the famous Hoboken music membership Maxwells in 1984 when he and Hubley (who was simply focusing on an cartoon film at that time) started playing cover music in their cellar. Kaplan was also a rock and roll scribe for a while, writing parts for Spin, among various other publications. (A predicament that triggers some consternation for Trouser Press creator and rock and roll critic Ira Robbins, who’s consistently recognised incorrectly as Kaplan.) Kaplan and Hubley positioned a now renowned ad within the Community Voice searching for music artists who distributed their fondness for groupings just like the Soft Guys, Objective of Burma, and Want to join up together. The group bowed in 1985 using the one “The River of Drinking water” backed by way of a cover of Love’s “A RESIDENCE ISN’T a Motel.” The band’s full-length debut, Trip the Tiger, found its way to 1986. However, associates Dave Schramm and Mike Lewis still left the group following the release from the record, forcing Kaplan into a far more prominent placement in the music group — as frontman and business lead guitarist — a job he would hardly ever relinquish. Yo La Tengo (called after a football outfielder’s Spanish cry for “I ACQUIRED It”) continued release a assorted sounding, critically acclaimed albums through the entire ’90s and in to the fresh millennium. A fascinating side notice: Kaplan befriended indie filmmaking huge Hal Hartley as the two had been in university and Hartley regularly uses Yo La Tengo music in his films.
Quick Facts
Full Name Ira Kaplan
Profession Actor, Guitarist, Singer-songwriter, Film Score Composer
Education Sarah Lawrence College
Nationality American
Spouse Georgia Hubley
Music Groups Yo La Tengo, The A-Bones
Music Songs Autumn Sweater, Our Way to Fall, You Can Have It All, My Little Corner of the World, Friday I’m in Love, Tears Are In Your Eyes, Let’s Save Tony Orlando’s House, The Cone of Silence, Nowhere Near, Moby Octopad, Deeper Into Movies, Blue Line Swinger, I'll Be Around, I Heard You Looking, Sugarcube, From a Motel 6, Big Day Coming, Yellow Sarong, Night Falls on Hoboken, My Heart’s Not in It, The Crying of Lot G, Last Days of Disco, Speeding Motorcycle, Season of the Shark, Little Eyes, Return to Hot Chicken, Mr. Tough, Barnaby, Hardly Working, More Stars Than There Are in Heaven, Automatic Doom, Tired Hippo, Farewell Adventureland
Albums Summer Sun, I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One, And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out, Fuckbook, Electr-O-Pura, I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass, Fade, President Yo La Tengo, The Sounds of the Sounds of Science, May I Sing with Me, Popular Songs, New Wave Hot Dogs, Ride the Tiger, Stuff Like That There, Painful, Fakebook, Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics, Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo, They Shoot, We Score, Today Is the Day, I Was a Teenage Mummy, President Yo La Tengo / New Wave Hot Dogs
Movies The Book of Life, Junior High School, Her Grandmother’s Gift, Tall Time Tales
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Singer/guitarist in the band Yo La Tengo. |
Soundtrack
Soundtrack
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Parks and Recreation |
2014 |
TV Series performer - 1 episode |
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Boyhood |
2014/I |
writer: "I'll Be Around" |
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Elementary |
2013 |
TV Series writer - 1 episode |
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The Power of Few |
2013 |
writer: "Sometimes I Don't Get You" |
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Take Me Home Tonight |
2011 |
writer: "Alrock's Bells" |
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August |
2008 |
writer: "Everyday" |
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The Invisible Circus |
2001 |
writer: "Stay Away From Heaven", "Weather Shy" |
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The Opportunists |
2000 |
writer: "The Ballad of Red Buckets" |
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I Shot Andy Warhol |
1996 |
writer: "Demons" - as I. Kaplan |
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Walking and Talking |
1996 |
writer: "The Summer" |
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Amateur |
1994 |
writer: "Shaker" |
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Simple Men |
1992 |
writer: "Always Something", "Some Kinda Fatigue", "Sleeping Pill" |
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Surviving Desire |
1992 |
writer: "Drug Test" |
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A Matter of Degrees |
1990 |
writer: "Something to Do" - as Kaplan |
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Actor
Actor
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Parks and Recreation |
2014 |
TV Series |
Bobby Knight Ranger Keyboardist |
Gilmore Girls |
2006 |
TV Series |
Hoboken Guy Troubadour |
The Book of Life |
1998 |
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Salvation Army Band (as Yo La Tengo) |
I Shot Andy Warhol |
1996 |
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Party Band Member |
Tall Time Tales |
1992 |
Short voice |
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Junior High School |
1978 |
Short |
Friedman |
Composer
Composer
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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The Sounds of Science |
2005 |
Documentary as Yo La Tengo |
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Taperaksje |
2004 |
Short |
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One Self: Fish/Girl |
1998 |
Short |
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Alchemy |
1995 |
TV Movie |
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Her Grandmother's Gift |
1995 |
Short |
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Enough |
1994 |
Short |
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Music Department
Music Department
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Junebug |
2005 |
musician |
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Sound Department
Sound Department
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Travis |
2009 |
Video short guitar sounds |
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Thanks
Thanks
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Don't Blink - Robert Frank |
2015 |
Documentary special thanks |
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I Shot Andy Warhol |
1996 |
thanks |
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Self
Self
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Sex and Broadcasting |
2014 |
Documentary |
Himself |
Overheard |
2014 |
TV Series |
Himself - interviewee |
Mistaken for Strangers |
2013 |
Documentary |
Himself |
Yo La Tengo Interview |
2009 |
Video documentary short |
Himself |
Looking for a Thrill: An Anthology of Inspiration |
2005 |
Video documentary |
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