6A - Wednesday, January 16, 2013
The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com
A typical day at The Michigan Daily.
'Workaholics cast
talks fame fans
#YOLA: You Only Live Always.
Yo La Tengo goes
beyond critical appeal
ByANDREW ECKHOUS who hasdone itall before. authentic moment comes at
Daily Arts Writer "Ohm," the six-minute album the very end. "The Point of It,"
Adam DeVine
discusses balance
between work, play
By STEVEN TWEEDIE
" Daily TV/New Media Editor
The third season of "Worka-
holics" returns tonight, and with
jt comes more feats of stupid-
ity from Adam DeVine ("Better
Off Ted"), Blake Anderson.("5th
"Year") and Anders Holm ("Key
and Peele").
Recently renewed for its fourth
,and fifth seasons; "Workaholics"
has propelled itself to flagship
status on Comedy Central, mostly
due to its wild popularity among
college students.
Inaninterview with The Mich-
igan Daily, DeVine, Anderson and
Holm spoke about partying with
the Black Keys, their upcoming
cameos in "Arrested Develop-
ment" and why you should tune
in for tonight's new episode of
"Workaholics."
It's no secret the guys like to
party, but DeVine - who recently
starred as Bumper inthe hit musi-
cal comedy "Pitch Perfect"-- was
quick to mention that it might not
be humanly possible to party as
hard as their onscreen counter-
parts ... because they'd be dead.
That doesn't keep them from
bumping into new fans and enjoy-
ing themselves, as DeVine men-
tioned was the case when they
met the Black Keys.
"They're one of my favorite
bands," DeVine said. "Dan espe-
cially, the lead singer, he's such a
huge 'Workaholics' fan. So when
they come in town sometimes,
they invite us out, and we get to go
party with them like we're huge
arena rock stars."
Even with all the revelry, the
"Workaholics" guys still know
how to get down to business,
with a movie script written and
produced with Seth Rogen in the
works and an upcoming cameo
in the much-anticipated new sea-
son of "Arrested Development,"
the latter of which made waves
around Twitter.
"It was Day 1 of shooting the
new season, so everyone was
pretty amped," DeVine said. "And
Jason Bateman didn't know who
we were. He thought we were just
actors hired for this small part.
"So he took a photo and
tthen posted it on his Twitter,"
he continued. "And Twitter
just exploded, like 'Oh my god
the 'Workaholics' guys are on
'Arrested Development'!' and
he came over to us and was like
'Wait, who are you guysT'"
And it looks like their cameos
on "Arrested Development" will
highlight what DeVine, Ander-
son and Holm are best at: acting
out thicker, stupider versions of
themselves.
"I play a ticket-taker for an
airline," DeVine said. "So I'm
delving out the tickets and I'm
just totally inept. I'm just an
idiot, and the other guys work
for the airline as well."
Being labeled a "critic's band"
is usually indicative of a few
things. One is that the band
will be artistic,
adventurous
and voracious
in its experi- Fade
mentation. The
other is that Yo La Tengo
they will prob- Matador
ably be under-
appreciated, if
not unpopular. Yo La Tengo, the
old man river of '90ts o-fi, defi-
nitely falls into that category.
Making consistently enjoy-
able music for almost three
decades now, Yo La Tengo has
mastered its art, and the level
of comfort is evident on Fade,
its newest release. The group's
13th album is an authentic and
well-executed collection of
opener, epitomizes the album's
theme of accepting life's unicer-
tainty with its first two lines:
"Sometimes the bad guys go right
on top / Sometimes the good
guys lose." It isn't a defeatist
couplet, but rather an acknowl-
edgment that, sometimes, shit
goes wrong. Sometimes the
Lions go 10-6, sometimes they-
go 4-12, and there's nothing
you can do about it. Throughout
Fade, Yo La Tengo, which trans-
lates to "I have it" in Spanish,
does seem to have it. The album
is an even-keeled existentialist
anthem, recalling the unortho-
dox Zen of Jeff Lebowski.
The opening track is followed
by "Is That Enough," a country-
western ditty dedicated to what
sounds likea rather disagreeable
ex. Half "I'm glad you dumped
me" and half "sour grapes," "Is
Fade's final track, is Kaplan's
wise answer to the implied ques-
tion, "What's the point?" In what
is undoubtedly a love song to his
wife and fellow band mate Geor-
gia Hubley, Kaplan softly sings,
"If we're getting old / If we're
not so strong / If our story's told
/ That's the point of it," over
slowly building chords. Kaplan
opens Fade with thoughts about
the inherent unfairness tof the
world, but ends with the belief
that everything will be just fine.
Latest Yo La
Tengo release
has it all.
When asked what t
like to say to studet
University to get them
tonight's episode, Del
tered something off-ct
laughing, "I don't kn
can print that, but goo
Let your imagina
wild.
hey would songs that spans nearly every That Enough" encapsulates the Yo La Tengo has drifted
nts at the musical style it has performed, internal battle between heart through its stellar career under
to watch creating an album reminiscent and brain that is an essential the radar, and it's okay with
Vine mut- . of a time before the blogosphere. part of human relationships. It's that. The music the group makes
lor before Yo La Tengo may not wow you a song sung with the insight that is always thought-provoking
ow if you with unfettered energy or EDM- (hopefully) comes with age, and and original and has no need to
d luck." inspired beats, but lead singer at 56, Kaplan has picked up a few change in order to prove itself.
ttion run Ira Kaplan's unassuming voice pearls of wisdom. . Yo La Tengo has created a stan-
has the confidence of someone The album's best and most dard of excellence for itself over
the past three decades, and Fade
is another reliable entry into
that canon. It may not be the
greatest album Yo La Tengo has
ever made, but Fade is another
Call: #734-418-4115 example of Ira Kaplan's Zen out-
look on life - which definitely
Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com seems to be working for him.
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