Frank at Chromewaves is reporting that Yo La Tengo will have a new album out in September. Meanwhile, the group has compiled a "Best-of, or Best-of-the-Worst, or Worst-of-the-Best" of its annual appearances on WFMU during the public radio station's fundraising marathons called Yo La Tengo is Murdering the Classics. The 70-minute compilation draws from the band's performances between 1996 and 2003. During each appearance, if someone makes a pledge they can request any cover and the band will attempt it. This year the group tackled "Dead Flowers," "Blister in the Sun" and "Lay Lady Lay" during one set alone.

The group's web page modestly calls the collection "dreadful," and says it won't make song titles available (whether that's on the actual disc itself or just on the site isn't clear).

Yo La Tengo's association with WFMU goes beyond the annual fundraising performance. The trio backed Daniel Johnston in a February 1990 performance -- Johnston was at his parents home in West Virginia and literally phoned-in his part in the three song set -- that became a single release as well as the spark that led filmmaker Jeff Feuerzeig to undertake what became the recently released Johnston documentary "The Devil and Daniel Johnston." WFMU, which has an amazing library of streaming audio and downloads on its site, is now making a stream of that 1990 show available.

In other film news, a documentary about Gram Parsons, "Fallen Angel," will be available this summer from Rhino Home Video. The film by Gandulf Hennig has been airing on BBC for a couple of years, it appears, and includes interviews with family, friends and associates of the late singer, as well as archival footage. Here's hoping its a better tribute to Parsons than the two most recent film projects about him, the better than expected but still pretty lousy 2003 film "Grand Theft Parsons" and the horrible tribute concert "Return to Sin City."