New track is up for grabs, yo. http://www.matadorrecords.com/matabl...-groovy-linda/

I'd honestly rather listen to a moribund John Giorno reciting his poetry via a messy blow job than the lame pastiche of a once creative Manhattan that song is.

So you don't like it then? :D

I honestly love both songs.

Shut up Stu. You love ALL SY songs. :)

nearly all yes...

Do you know if the ''Linda'' in the title is Linda McCartney? Is the song about dancing on Main Street while you eat animals because of vegetarianism?

i like both songs. is this a "mature" return to the Psychic Hearts era ?

I am just listening Burroughs and it reminds me Thurston´s Psychic Hearts songs. So nothing new, but it´s really enjoyable. I think I am going to buy the album.

I liked the sample tracks... I'd check out an album.

album?

Anyway, is the upcoming tour now offically a Chelsea Lights Moving tour, or a Thurston Moore tour? According to the posters that stu posted on another thread (thanks!) it's CLM, but on the venue's site the show in Antwerp is still announced as Thurston Moore.....

"Burroughs" was not a bad track, but really, what a dumbass band name.

Free Song #3 by Chelsea Light Moving: “Frank O’Hara Hit”
July 25th, 2012 at 12:00 pm by Robby

from on-tour in Europe, Thurston Moore writes:




“Frank O’Hara Hit”

Free Song #3 by

CHELSEA LIGHT MOVING



Today is July 25 and it’s my birthday. I’m 54. This song is called Frank O’Hara Hit. And it’s by this band I started called Chelsea Light Moving. Right now we’re whipping around Europe playing some summer love-cry gigs. I wanted to release this song by the end of July because it’s a meditation on that month through history in events that define a lot of what mytho-romanticizes my heart, both broken and blessed at the moment. On July 25, 1965 Bob Dylan with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band delivered to rock n’ roll the dissident soul of folk music and poetry. For many it was already a viable meeting but Dylan set it on fire for the world to see. And he was famously cursed and booed by the gatekeepers of old ways wariness. The song he sang was Phantom Engineer (later titled It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry). On July 24, 1966 the NYC poet Frank O’Hara was struck by a dune buggy while hanging out on Fire Island, and died the next day. O’Hara knew poetry in all it’s formalist glory and like John Cage’s ear to music liberated it for writers for an unending time. In his essay Personism: A Manifesto (published in Leroi Jones’ Yugen magazine in 1961) he writes, “I don’t … like rhythm, assonance, all that stuff. You just go on your nerve. If someone’s chasing you down the street with a knife you just run, you don’t turn around and shout, ‘Give it up! I was a track star for Mineola Prep’…As for measure and other technical apparatus, that’s just common sense: if you’re going to buy a pair of pants you want them to be tight enough so everyone will want to go to bed with you. There’s nothing metaphysical about it.” On July 26, 1943 Mick Jagger was born in Dartford, Kent, England and would become the 20th century’s erotic pinup for the unsafety of teeny bop girls everywhere preaching the gospel soaked blues of African-American music that their parents were most likely frightened to death of. His skill in getting it and keeping it together and continuing to honor the magic that rocks the fuck out when Howlin’ Wolf hit the mic is what inspires every tantalizing facet of real rock n’ roll. On July 29, 1966 our hero Bobby Dylan crashed his motorbike while taking it for a spin in Woodstock He had just recorded three lightning rod LPs (Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde on Blonde), a book of writing (Tarantula) and was taking a breather between a just finished nine month world tour (where he was facing audiences half pissed at his “Judas!” betrayal of folk purity) and readying for sixty-four American gigs booked by money hog Albert Grossman. He was amphetamine skinny and breathing high-octane annunciation. He returned to us a man in control of his image and he provocatively crushed celebrity underfoot like a shitty Marlboro. Let us kiss our lovers gently in July as the lathered sunrays of August take us into contemplation and a sweet trust to a future we will always fight for. In rock n roll, soul, tenderness and piety.



Thurston Moore,

Commune di Santo Stefano di Sessanio, ITALY
July 25, 2012



CHELSEA LIGHT MOVING

Thurston Moore (gtr/vocals/songwriter)
Keith Wood (gtr)
Samara Lubelski (bass)
John Moloney (drums)



july

26 – Castelbasso, Italy – Soundlabs Festival
28 – Hyeres, France - Midi Festival
29 – Dijon, France – Le Consortium
30 – Dudingen, Switzerland – Bad Bonn
31 – Luxembourg City, Luxembourg – Den Atelier

august

1 – Antwerp, Belgium – Rivierenhof
2 – Schorndorf, Germany – Manufaktur
3 – Vienna, Austria – Stadtsaal
4 – Katowice, Poland – OFF Festival
5 – Dresden, Germany – Alter Schlachthof
6 – Copenhagen, Demnark – VEGA
8 – Oslo, Norway – OYA Festival
9 – Goteburg, Sweden – Way Out West Festival

http://www.matadorrecords.com/matabl...ank-ohara-hit/

new thurston track.

i like it.


http://www.matadorrecords.com/matabl...ank-ohara-hit/

Just found out that 'Chelsea Light Moving' was the name of a moving company, that Philip Glass started with artist Jene Highstein in 1957 in NYC.

Anyways, luv the new track.

Well that's music to my ears! I love Psychic Hearts! I'm excited for this new endeavour.

funny... kim + ikue mori going to play in same places in Oslo and Katowice, but different dates. Until now the tracks of chelsea are cool.

Looks like they fucked up and the last song was "Empires of Time". "Frank O'Hara Hit" posted now:

http://www.matadorrecords.com/matabl...ank-ohara-hit/

Gotta say, I like what I've heard so far.

this one here, this one here i like

Am I the only one who gets confused hearing Thurston on the left side?

I haven't paid close enough attention, are these just being released as they write/record them or is there an album announced?

The album isn't due for this year. Besides that I don't know if these songs are the actual ones ending up on the record or more demo's.

Oh, I thought the album would definitely be released this year and these 4 tracks are all previews.

Chelsea Light Moving – first NYC Show to Benefit Tom Carter

August 15th, 2012 at 12:46 am by Gerard

 

Chelsea Light Moving‘s first NYC show is with White Out and Steve Gunn at 285 Kent on Sept. 12. It’s a benefit for Charalambides ‘Tom Carter who recently fell seriously ill while touring Europe.
Tickets are $21.69. There probably won’t be a guest list (or at least there shouldn’t be). If you cannot attend, donations are still being accepted here

just received the "caught on tape" LP on Feeding Tube records, and had the pleasant surprise to find a xeroxed CLM flyer signed by TM as insert !

is it too early to start a Sonic 2013 thread?

that will be a sweet birthday present. Thanks in advance Thurston :cool:

A new song was announced on the CLM blog but I don't see a download link; just two book covers and some "shit/make/freak/speak/fuck/burn/ship/flip/stick" lyrics.

http://chelsealightmoving.blogspot.c...ving-song.html

its the last song on that show that nyc taper recorded...a short minimalist punk song.

okay so 4 songs have leaked so far I decided to pull out my geetar while recently listening to them where previously i was thinking that these are all mostly in the CGDGCD tuning... and i think they mostly are, i tabbed out "groovy & linda" in my head quite easily (probably the simpliest of these songs to play) and fragments of the others only after listening thru these once, sounds like alot of the same chords or similar chords are used and re-used in these songs.

I must say i kinda like this direction thurston is taking, a more minimalist and punk-ish approach... it harkens back to some of the pyschic hearts-esque sound but its more immediate sounding. just my 2 cents...

At this point is it hard to not assume that the whole album is going to be released for free one song at a time...

Lets discuss T's new hair cut.

LOL. Its a little too short. Its gotten better over the past couple of weeks though.

The CLM tracks are really interesting in a Free Kitten kind of way; Might turn out nice on a focused LP... However I doubt it 'll become anything REALLY TRULY great. Seems to random right now. Let's hope i'm wrong.

today?

Not quite yet, apparently...

Just posted on facebook:

"new song "lip" goes like this:

RIP UP YR SHIT UP
AND CUT UP YR HICCUP
MAKE OUT & FREAK OUT
... GET UP & SPEAK UP
GET FUCKIN MAD
TOO FUCKIN BAD

BURN UP + SHIP OUT
+ FLIP UP + FLIP OUT
STICK UP YR LIP OUT
+ BREAK UP + GET OUT
GET FUCKN MAD
TOO FUCKIN BAD

the music can be heard on the record when it comes out -- which will be in the blink of an eye - a very large/timeless eye.... our next appearance, where we will bust out "lip" once more, is dec 4th in nyc at the issue project room benefit-- we love you, we love you--- chelsea light moooooving"

haha, I guess the lyrics were free.

I finally listened to that 09/12/12 show and I really like the four (?) new songs, including the teased "Lip". I'm eager to hear the finished album, is it still planned for March?

Chelsea Light Moving – self-titled debut album coming March 5 + U.S. Tour Dates


http://www.matadorrecords.com/matabl...-s-tour-dates/