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Like they (almost!) always do about this time, Yo La Tengo have announced their eight-night Hanukkah residency, which kicks off December 4 at their hometown haunt, Hoboken, New Jersey's Maxwell's.

As usual, each benefit gig (charities TBA) will feature an opening band, some manner of comedies, and then a full-on Yo La Tengo set. Not so much as usual: they're not squealin' as to just who'll be doing the warming up. On their MySpace blog, the band guarantees "no matter what night you're there, you'll wish you had come another night instead. That's just the way you are; there's nothing we can do about that." You know us all too well.

Of course, Yo La Tengo are no strangers to tossing caution wind-ward these days, what with their current "Freewheeling" tour and all. All those dates and more follow this thing yonder.

Yo La Tengo:

10-19 Port Washington, NY - Jeanne Rimsky Theater at Landmark on Main Street %
10-20 Woodstock, NY - Colony Cafe (two shows) %
10-22 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church Sanctuary %
10-23 Alexandria, VA - Birchmere %
10-27 Mexico City, Mexico - Manifest Festival
10-29 Portland, OR - Aladdin Theater %
10-30 Seattle, WA - Town Hall %
11-01 San Francisco, CA - Palace of Fine Arts Theatre %
11-03 Hollywood, CA - Ivar Theatre (two shows) %
11-04 La Jolla, CA - Museum of Contemporary Art (two shows) %
11-07 New York, NY - Beacon Theatre (I'm Not There: In Concert) (performing with Buckwheat Zydeco) *
11-10 North Adams, MA - Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art %
11-11 Ithaca, NY - Cornell University ^
11-15 Boston, MA - Museum of Fine Arts (two shows) %
12-04 Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell's (Hanukkah show)
12-05 Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell's (Hanukkah show)
12-06 Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell's (Hanukkah show)
12-07 Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell's (Hanukkah show)
12-08 Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell's (Hanukkah show)
12-09 Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell's (Hanukkah show)
12-10 Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell's (Hanukkah show)
12-11 Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell's (Hanukkah show)

% as the Freewheeling Yo La Tengo
* with Cat Power, Calexico, My Morning Jacket, the Roots, J Mascis, Lee Ranaldo & the Million Dollar Bashers, Mark Langean, Al Kooper, John Doe, Ian Ball and Olly Peacock of Gomez
^ with Broken Social Scene