Sonic Youth Gossip - Chelsea Light Moving

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Originally Posted by Magic Wheel Memory

I actually got a kick out of that, and Thurston's reaction to it. He sort of apologized to the audience, but didn't seem too fazed by it.

I admit it was cute but it killed my anticipation just a little bit.

does anyone know why on Amazon they mention a CD coming with the LP ? Is that a mistake and they actually mean 7" ?

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Originally Posted by jlnpgt

does anyone know why on Amazon they mention a CD coming with the LP ? Is that a mistake and they actually mean 7" ?

Definitely a mistake. The LP comes with a 7 inch.

The two extra tracks are on Itunes for single download

One question and one comment.

Personally I really love the album but the production is bad. Too boomy sounding and waaay over loud like everything nowadays. Not as brickwalled as a lot of stuff but still way off the dynamic range it should be at. I put it through my sound lab and removed that mid-range boomyness, declipped the peaks that are too loud, chopped off that 30 seconds of silence after "Frank O'Hara Hit" and rearranged the track order with "Alighted" more toward the end. MUCH BETTER!

Heavenmetal
Sleeping Where I Fall
Burroughs
Empires Of Time
Groovy & Linda
Lip
Frank O'Hara Hit
Alighted
Mohawk
Communist Eyes

Now, does anybody know who's chatting about the "...mellow scene" etc. inbetween "Empires Of Time" and "Groovy & Linda?"

A few shots from Asheville

Instore:

Show:

At the Instore, they had mic difficulties and proceeded to do a noise jam for like 10 minutes, then Thurston gave some little kid his guitar and let him bash on it while he made noise into the broken mic.

CHELSEA LIGHT MOVING DATES

Mon-Mar-04 Charlottesville, VA The Southern
Tue-Mar-05 Asheville, NC Grey Eagle
Wed-Mar-06 Raleigh, NC Kings Barcade
Thu-Mar-07 Savannah, GA Savannah Stopover
Fri-Mar-08 Atlanta, GA The Earl

Sun-Mar-10 Denton, TX 35 Denton
Mon-Mar-11 Austin, TX Sonos Studio @ SXSW
Tue-Mar-12 Austin, TX QUEUE APP SXSW Day party @ The Mohawk
Tue-Mar-12 San Antonio, TX The Korova (The Big Spill Festival 2013)
Wed-Mar-13 Austin, TX Consequence of Sound's Cosigns II @ The Parish
Thu-Mar-14 Austin, TX Scoot Inn (Thrasher & Converse SXSW 2013 - Death Match) (FREE SHOW)
Fri-Mar-15 Austin, TX Ground Control Touring SXSW Showcase at House of Vans @ The Mohawk
Fri-Mar-15 Austin, TX Rolling Stone's Rock Room day party @ La Zona Rosa
Tue-Mar-19 Los Angeles, CA Echoplex
Wed-Mar-20 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall

Fri-Mar-22 Portland, OR Doug Fir
Sat-Mar-23 Seattle, WA Neumo's

Wed-Mar-27 Minneapolis, MN Triple Rock
Thu-Mar-28 Madison, WI High Noon Saloon
Fri-Mar-29 Chicago, IL Empty Bottle
Sat-Mar-30 Detroit, MI Magic Stick
Sun-Mar-31 Toronto, ONT Lee's Palace
Tue-Apr-02 Pittsburgh, PA Mr. Smalls
Wed-Apr-03 Philadelphia, PA Union Transfer
Thu-Apr-04 Washington, DC Black Cat
Fri-Apr-05 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
Sat-Apr-06 Hartford, CT Arch Street Tavern
Sun-Apr-07 Boston, MA The Sinclair
Wed-May-15 Hudson, NY Club Helsinki
Thu-May-16 Burlington, VT Signal Kitchen
Fri-May-17 Victoriaville, QC Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville

To go or not to go to the show in Hudson, that is the question... glad they added more dates though.

From Allmusic.com:

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review

by Fred Thomas

The end of Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore's 27-year marriage left Sonic Youth with an uncertain future, and the four compulsively creative members of the band lacking one of their largest outlets for sound. While none of the players had ever been short of side projects, news of the formation of Chelsea Light Moving seemed especially weighty. The first Thurston-fronted rock band in a similar mold as the recently filed away Sonic Youth could either fill the substantial void left by the legendary guitar mutilators or follow Moore's antagonistic noisy tendencies into messy, self-indulgent disappointment. The quartet's self-titled debut of what they've coined as "Burroughs rock" does neither, however. Tracks like "Groovy & Linda" and "Frank O' Hara Hit" rely on the same signature marriage of dissonance and obscure, cloudy-headed pop in Sonic Youth's more aimlessly wandering moments on albums like Washing Machine and Murray Street. Thurston's bohemian poetry scene lyrics are also in rare form, with songs like album opener "Heavenmetal" finding him spouting surreal collaged lines that evoke both heartbreak and joy over one of the album's more subdued guitar patterns. Chelsea Light Moving tend toward heavier zones than most of Moore's rock-based output. Rather than stretching out into extensive chiming guitar meditations, tracks like the blistering "Alighted" sound sludgy, depraved, and listlessly angry. On songs like these a closer parallel could be drawn to Bleach-era Nirvana or the Melvins albums that inspired it than any Sonic Youth material. While Moore's new group is clearly the sound of a band in a room rocking out, fronted by one of America's more legendary noise rock figures, it becomes apparent quickly that the chemistry and interplay between the four members is what made Sonic Youth's sound so densely dreamy and lovingly damaged. Chelsea Light Moving finds Moore in a mode only somewhat removed from his more rock-oriented solo albums, certainly digging in to the wilder side of his multifaceted approach to sound, but stopping before spiraling into grating or overly self-aware histrionics. Chelsea Light Moving doesn't fill the still-warm shoes of Sonic Youth, but it isn't meant to. The album is fun, huge, and pleasantly confused (as evidenced in part by the out-of-place Germs cover that closes the album) but ultimately just another chapter in Moore's lifelong exploration of sound, poetry, and the darkest corners of American subcultures he helped build, and continues to add to.

thx moshe for sxsw dates

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Originally Posted by Concrete Abutments

Too boomy sounding and waaay over loud like everything nowadays.

This is one of my favorite aspects of the record. I have to believe the clipping was intentional. I guess it's just a question of taste.

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Originally Posted by Magic Wheel Memory

This is one of my favorite aspects of the record. I have to believe the clipping was intentional. I guess it's just a question of taste.

Yeah I think they definitely wanted it that way. It's just me. :) I actually had the same problem with The Eternal! I never really attempted to adjust it though. All my own ears.

I can't notice this stuff anymore....i'm saturated

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Originally Posted by RanaldoNecro

got my tickets for march 31

May I ask how/where you got tix? I want to see them in Toronto, I went on ticketmaster.ca (Canada) and didn't see tix available... I'm in Buffalo, so i can't really simply walk into Soundscapes or Rotate This to get them unless I make a seperate trip up.

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Originally Posted by scott v

here's a link
http://www.ticketfly.com/event/20871...oving-toronto/

never heard of ticketfly so don't yell at me if it's not legit :) It's mentioned on the venue site

Really like some parts of this record, some parts I'm not so sure of especially Lip which sounds a bit shit.

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The album is fun, huge, and pleasantly confused (as evidenced in part by the out-of-place Germs cover that closes the album)

How come nobody's talking about this Germs cover? I mean, I'm not because unfortunately I haven't yet listened to the album, but hey...

Lip is more about harnessing a spirit than a successful song

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Originally Posted by pad_023

Really like some parts of this record, some parts I'm not so sure of especially Lip which sounds a bit shit.