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The tradition goes on!
After the 2005, 2006 and 2007 predictions, here is a thread
which will try to foresee all sonic related releases in the coming year.

Some of the items are confirmed and some are only rumored.
Here is a legend that can help you know how solid the information on every single item is:

!= Confirmed
#= probably will happen this year
?= I dreamed I dream

* Items in red have been added to the list during 2008.
* items with a green star have been already released.
* prediction for 2008 release was wrong.


Sonic Youth

* Sonic Youth - New album?
* Sonic Youth - Hits Are For Squares (CD, Hear Music)!
* Sonic Youth - SYR 7 - J'Accuse Ted Hughes+ Unreleased studio session (12”, SYR)!
* Sonic Youth- SYR 8 – The nosiest of all syr’s!!! (CD?, SYR)!
* Sonic Youth - Soundtracks Box Set (SYR) ?#
* Sonic Youth - Screaming Fields of Sonic Love (DVD)?#
* Sonic Youth - Mater-Dick (CD, Goofin?)!

Various Sonics

* Gordon/Olson/Moore/Young/Shelly/Dilloway - Live in Denver (CDR, Ecstatic Peace) #
* Thurston Moore/Kim Gordon/Leslie Keffer (Cassette, Ecstatic Peace)!
* Rhys Chatham – Guitar Trio is My Life (2 out of 3 CD featuring Kim, Lee and Thurston, Table of Elements/Radium, out March 4th)!
* Mirror/Dash (Ecstatic Peace?)?
* Guitar Series Vol. 3 and 4 (12" featuring tracks from Thurston and Lee, Table of Elements)!


Kim

* Free Kitten (Ecstatic Peace, spring release)!
* Yoshimio - Yunnan Colorfree (CD+DVD, Commons)!

Steve

* Steve Shelly/Mike watt/Enrique Morente (SYR?)?

Lee

* Lee Ranaldo – Yes the solo album is in the works! (Ecstatic Peace)#
* Lee Ranaldo - Maelstrom from Drift (CD, Three Lobed Oscillation III subscription series)!
* Lee Ranaldo/Marina Rosenfeld/Nels Cline – Out Trios (CD, Atavistic)?
* Lee Ranaldo - All the Stars in the Sky (12", ?)!

Thurston

* Thurston Moore - Sensitive/Lethal (CD, No Fun Productions, out on April 10th)!
* The Bark Haze - One for Merz (CD, Three Lobed Oscillation III subscription series)!
* The Bark Haze/Traum – Monolith 2 ( CD/LP, Music Fellowship)!
* College Girls Gone Wild (CDR, Ecstatic Peace)#
* Original Silence – The Second Original Silence (CD, Smalltown Superjazzz, early 2008)!
* Original Silence – The Third Original Silence (LP or Cassette, Smalltown Superjazzz)!
* Thurston Moore/Prurient (CD?, Hospital Productions?)?
* Thurston Moore/Jad Fair/Yamantaka Eye (CD?, Ecstatic Peace)?
* Diskaholics Anonymous Trio –S/T reissue (CD, Smalltown Superjazzz)!
* Chris Habib - Diskaholics Anonymous Trio (DVD, Ecstatic Peace?)?
* Thurston Moore (7" in 10 singles box set, Ecstatic Peace)#
* The Thing - Now and forever (3 CD+DVD featuring a live recording with Thurston, Smalltown Superjazzz)!
* The Bark Haze - Basement Psychosis (Cassette, Ecstatic Peace)!
* Thurston Moore/Paul Flaherty - Slither (2) (7" on the Bored Fortress Club, Not Not Fun)!
* Dream/Aktion Unit - Live in Victoriaville Festival (CD, Victo)?
* Richard Kern - Extra action ( soundtrack for DVD, MDV)!
* Haruomi Hosono Strange Song Book - Tribute to Haruomi Hosono 2 (2CD+DVD)!
* Thurston Moore - Live from SoHo (mp3, iTunes)!
* Thurston Moore - 3 (Ecstatic Peace)?
* Chris Habib - More Hair Less Bush (DVD, Ecstatic Peace)?


Books

* David Browne - Goodbye 20th Century: A Biography of Sonic Youth
(Hardcover, Da Capo Press, May 26, 2008)!

* Thurston Moore & Byron Coley - No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York. 1976-1980 (Hardcover, Abrams Image, June 1, 2008)!

* Peter Wild (Editor)-The Empty Page: Fiction Inspired by "Sonic Youth"
(Paperback, Serpent's Tail, 27 Mar 2008)!

* Steve chick - Bad Moon Rising (Omnibus Press, March 2008)#?

* V.A. Black Noise: A tribute to the late Steven Parrino (contributions by Thurston and Kim, Hard cover boxset, June 2007)!


Exhibition:

* Lieu international des Formes Emergentes de Saint Nazaire Musueum and
Museïon de Bozano are co-producing the first international exhibition dedicated to Sonic Youth.
Collaborations engaged by the band with visual artists, directors, poets or performers
will be in the limelight.


Happy new year!