Indie rocker act Yo La Tengo has been referenced in pop culture many times, but, because the band isn’t acknowledged by mainstream music, if you got the reference, you were one of the cool kids that was in on the joke. For more than 20 years, the music industry has remained oblivious, but the entertainment industry as a whole has not.

Here are a few examples: The band was mentioned in a 2002 front-page headline for the satirical newspaper The Onion (”37 Record-Store Clerks Feared Dead In Yo La Tengo Concert Disaster.”) The video for the song “Sugarcube” features comedians David Cross and Bob Odenkirk.

The band performed the psychedelic version of “The Simpsons” theme that appears at the end of the episode “D’oh-in, in the Wind.” The band portrayed the Velvet Underground in the 1996 film “I Shot Andy Warhol.” Frontman/guitarist Ira Kaplan says he and the band couldn’t care one way or the other about not showing up on the music industry’s radar. “I think that’s kind of a band strategy that we came up with.

I think we’ve tried not to get too worried about what’s going on and just try to extract what’s good from any scenario,” Kaplan says. “We try to always avoid thinking like, ‘Oh, if mass media got a hold of us, that would be a disaster.’ I’m sure it wouldn’t be.” Spanish for “I’ve Got It,” the band (percussionist Georgia Hubley, bassist James McNew and Kaplan) released 15 albums in a 20-year span.