New Merch.
https://sonicyouth.kfu.store/experim...t-t-shirt.html
https://sonicyouth.kfu.store/goo-ska...-son211-3.html

"Psychiatrist... Depression... Anxiety... Counseling..."

Hey, maybe the thread should be called Sonic 2022/2023. :)

William Hooker's Shamballa (with Thurston and Elliott Sharp) is being reissued for Record Store Day:

http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/sho...d.php?t=129932

New TM track for a quid:




https://daydreamlibraryseries.bandca...thurston-moore

Thurston wrote the liner notes (and played bass?) for the beautiful new James Brandon Lewis album.

https://www.clashmusic.com/news/jame...raphic-beings/

Sweet!

EX-CE-LL-ENT!!

can't wait the album release...

isn't every new Thurston as boring as fuck? but we got nostalgia?

No, and, at least in my case, no.

Kim and Lee were always the coolest part of the band so I agree completely, Kim and Lee solo projects are much more interesting.

speaking of cool releases featuring Lee, this is out now:






https://labellebrute.bandcamp.com/album/hell-gate-2
I think it's streaming completely now since a week or so, or perhaps it is only for me because I bought it ;)

Kim and Lee were and are cool as cucumbers, but regarding SY let's not rewrite history here - Thurston was the engine of the band.

The engine? Maybe... but probably Sonic Youth would have been a forgettable rock band without Kim's artistic sense and the experimental way of understanding music Lee had. No cucumbers, no history.

The cucumbers were indeed essential; beyond essential, even - this was a BAND. Now, if all we had had been The Thurston Moore Experience, I don't think it would have been forgettable at all, but certainly not SY-level.

Incidentally, let's not forget Steve the cucumber just because he arrived "late". He propelled the group into a higher megatonic dimension. :cool:

Second tune from T's forthcoming album: "Isadora".

https://daydreamlibraryseries.bandca...re-music-video

I noticed that the Brooklyn 2011 live recoding has been set to private on the Sonic Youth bandcamp page. You can download it still if you've already purchased it, but you can no longer stream via the platform.

Physical release forthcoming? Rarities 3 went dark when In/Out/In was fresh...

Emma Tricca - Aspirin Sun produced by Steve

ARTIST: COMELADE/LEE RANALDO/RAMON PRATS, PASCAL
TITLE: Velvet Serenade

On occasion of its 25th anniversary, Staubgold presents Velvet Serenade. Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo and French maverick Pascal Comelade relive The Velvet Underground -- a non-nostalgic reinvention of a musical legacy that takes an influential past into the future. For the world premiere of his latest book Linger On: The Velvet Underground -- published by Eva and Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace Library -- Catalan music journalist Ignacio Julià wanted to relive the New York band's original dynamics, that creative friction between an American noise-guitar player and poet, Lou Reed, and a radical, lyrical European pianist and songwriter, John Cale. Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo and French maverick Pascal Comelade accepted the challenge and the concert took place in Banyoles, Catalonia, on April 28, 2022, as a non-nostalgic reinvention of a musical legacy that takes an influential past into the future. Comelade and Ranaldo met for the first time the same day the piece was created from scratch, at Banyoles' Auditori del Ateneu, and after a few try-outs, magic happened right away. Local drummer Ramon Prats joined in easily and the three constructed what Ignacio Julià had asked for, not a tribute concert made of more or less faithful covers, but a new thing. Pascal came with a clear idea of the songs and laid them down with his minimalist, personal style at the grand piano and small keyboard, Lee painted -- with guitars, acoustic and electric, used as cellos sometimes, and weird percussion -- the wide palette of emotions these classic songs carry. After months of imagining it, here it was, a fully realized Velvet Serenade. Spontaneous, vibrant and true to the band's spirit.

"See, I believe in giving back. I might be the only writer that has interviewed all The Velvet Underground's members through the years, from 1978 to 2022, and all those conversations, articles and experiences are now collected in Linger On: The Velvet Underground, a book that I hope will be shared by next generations. This Banyoles, Girona, concert was another way of giving back what the band and its members had given me since the mid-seventies, not just great art in the form of rock'n'roll at its most deep and challenging, but an outlook on life and everything else, an invitation to seek the beauty in truth and try to understand human behavior." --Ignacio Julià (Banyoles, December 2022)

Thurston Moore collaborates on the latest issue of Heartworm Press' Heartworm Reader, available now to pre-order:
https://shop.theheartworm.com/produc...m-reader-vol-3