Yo La Tengo to Reissue 'Painful,' Announce 30th Anniversary Shows [FULL SCHEDULE]

New Jersey rockers Yo La Tengo have big plans for their upcoming 30th anniversary, including anniversary shows and a reissue of their 1993 album Painful.

The re-release, Extra Painful, will include outtakes and demos from the band's recording sessions for the original LP as well as some live, acoustic cuts, Pitchfork reports. Deluxe editions will be released in a two-CD format as well as a double vinyl LP. Check out the tracklist for the reissue, out Dec. 2, below.

Yo La Tengo will also hit the road at the end of the month in honor of the band's milestone. The band will play nine dates, making stops in Portland, Maine; New Orleans, Louisiana; and Vancouver, British Columbia, before their final show in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in December. More dates are below.

Rob Sheffield, writing for SPIN at the time, wrote that Painful is "the album that keeps every promise Yo La Tengo ever made, full of ravishing, wraithlink melodies around scruffy guitars that clang around your head like sneakers in the dryer ... when a bunch of weird sounds add up to a masterpiece as casually majestic as Painful, well, 'genius' isn't even the word, is it?"

Painful Tracklist
1. Big Day Coming
2. From A Motel 6
3. Double Dare
4. Superstar-Watcher
5. Nowhere Near
6. Sudden Organ
7. A Worrying Thing
8. I Was A Fool Beside You For Too Long
9. The Whole Of The Law
10. Big Day Coming
11. I Heard You Looking

Extra Painful Tracklist
1. Nowhere Near (demo)
2. From A Motel 6 (live acoustic)
3. Tunnel Vision (unreleased instrumental demo)
4. Sudden Organ (demo)
5. Smart Window (unreleased Painful session)
6. Big Day Coming (live acoustic)
7. Slow Learner (unreleased demo)
8. Double Dare (demo)
9. A Worrying Thing (demo)
10. I Heard You Looking (live)

Tour Dates:

10/29/14: Portland, ME @ State Theatre
10/30: Burlington, VT @ Flynn Center
11/7: New Orleans, LA @ Contemporary Arts Center
11/9: Austin, TX @ Fun Fun Fun Fest
11/12: Vancouver, British Columbia @ PuSh Festival
12/3: New York, NY @ Town Hall
12/4: New York, NY @ Town Hall
12/5: Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
12/6: Philadelphia, PA @ Trocadero

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Yo La Tengo, Reissue