Sonic Youth in "Clash" magazine
 

SY have a one page feature (+ one page photo) in the September issue of "Clash" magazine. Normally it's a magazine I avoid, too "hip", but I saw their name on the cover and bought it.

Excerpts will follow...



EDIT - Oh bollocks, the boss is back from lunch. Excerpts will have to wait, possibly a couple of days.

scans? i might get it today i dont know

Print's too small for scans, photo's nothing to get excited about.


After 25 years of no-wave noise under their belts you would expect to hear some sort of celebration upon their (SY) return to NY. "No, we really haven't thought about that", he (Thurston) says, with a flip of his shaggy head. "In a way it might be kind of strange if we bought gifts for each other or something like that. We buy gifts for each other on holidays and stuff, but we're definitely not a lovey-dovey band."



With Rather Ripped SY blatantly stepped away from the ambience and expanse found on their other albums. Why? "Because everyone else is doing it. We didn't really feel that we had to prove ourselves as a noise band; kind of more interesting to not do that. In fact I was emailing my friends in noise bands and writing that our new record sounds like a fuckin' Blondie record and they would be like "Cool!" "The next record is gonna be like scream, noise annihilation", he says with a playful laugh that you don't know whether ot not to take seriously.

http://www.clashmagazine.com/

There's something rather strange about Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore as he walks into a small café in the Soho district of his legendary hometown, New York City. Maybe it's his mopped hair, black-rim glasses, and gold cassette tape hanging from a chain around his neck. Then again, it could be the fact that he walked in by himself like a normal New Yorker looking for rather a good lunch. Or maybe, just maybe, it's the indescribable legend and unmatched historical influence that he carries around so effortlessly, but oh so effectively. Either way, he sits down quietly, says a quiet "Hello" and informs Clash of the quality food at the café. In fact, he goes so far as to order the same dish as us. Flattering? You don't even know the half of it.

It's worth clicking the link, because the Sonic Youth photograph is quite a nice one.

dude, Kasabian. ew.

thanks for info sonicl and thanks for the link hip priest.

Thurston isn't from New York. Stupid Clash magazine.

Sure he is. Yeah, he lives in Massachusetts and was born in Florida, but that's his real home, right?