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The World Cafe is an hour-long show on Public Radio which features interviews with and performances by contemporary musicians. In late September
Sonic Youth traveled to Philadelphia and visited with host David Dye at
Indre studios. The band performed several songs from Murray Street and
rapped about the history of the band, the new record, and more. On October
30 the show will be broadcast. The World Café is syndicated on over 150 stations, and will also be webcast at 2pm and 1am Eastern time. Go to worldcafe.org to find out the stations and streaming info. Wednesday October
23 8:00pm St. Mark's church NYC. NEW T-SHIRT DESIGNS IN THE STORE Some of the T-shirt styles and stickers which were designed for the summer tour are now being sold on the store page of the site. Modern classics like the streetsign photo t-shirt and the tennis sticker are now mere clicks away. MURRAY ST. MINI-DOCUMENTARY ONLINE The mini-documentary which was shown on MTV2 about the making of the Murray st. lp is now online and available to the public. The files are hefty, so you will have time while downloading to give the album one more critical listen before learning all the secrets behind it. Click here, then choose high bandwidth, and scroll to the bottom.
SONIC YOUTH ON SUNDANCE, MTV, AND NBC More and more opportunites to learn about Sonic Youth on televsion... the Sundance channel will air on Friday October 11 a program entitled "The Blank Generation and Silver Rockets/Kool Things: 20 Years of Sonic Youth." The program has been described as a retrospective of SY videos cut together with new interview footage. The program will be shown a few times afterwards as well, check local listings. Don't forget that yr gonna have two chances to catch SY on television before that: First, on September 8, MTV2 will begin airing a Sonic Youth special narrated by Kim and Thurston and made by Chris Habib. It features footage shot during the Murray st. sessions at Echo Canyon. The week after it airs it will be available here for download. Secondly, on October 4 Sonic Youth will be appearing on the Carson Daly show on NBC. We ask that you dig all of these television events. STREAMING ACOUSTIC SY SET FROM WERS BOSTON Here is a performance that took place live on air in Boston on August 13, now available for streaming download. Thurston, Lee, and Jim play Empty Page, Disconnection Notice, and Rain on Tin, with all three of them on acoutic guitars. Here's some links: ROCK AND SOLO ACTION THIS FALL In the first post-tour SY gig to be announced, the group will be performing at the Terrastock festival in Boston over the weekend of October 11-13. The bill is completely nuts and features people like 6 Organs of Admittance and Bardo Pond, to name just two. We have some new info on this gig- it has moved from the Middle East to the Axis nightclub, and Sonic Youth will play Sunday afternoon around 4pm. Check out the above link for even more dirt. Also keep your eyes peeled for the possibility of a few more East Coast Sonic Youth dates this fall... Meanwhile, Thurston is plotting some shows throughout Massachusetts and in Holland, with details as below: Thursday, September
12th Boston - First Unitarian
Church Moore/Shoup/Corsano Amherst- Hampshire College Prescott Tavern Saturday, September 14th Moore/Shoup/Corsano/Flaherty New York- Tonic Friday, September 20th Moore/Bennink/van Iersel Eindhoven- Mu art
center Thurston solo Rotterdam Monday, September
23rd Easthampton- Flywheel LEE GIGS THIS WEEK AND THE NEXT This Text of Light
group I'm involved in works from a shifting cast of the following characters:
Alan Licht/William Hooker/Christian Marclay/DJ Olive/Ulrich Krieger and
myself—whoever can make the gigs (Uli lives in Berlin, fer instance).
We usually play to the films of Stan Brakhage—in any case the original
premise was to improvise (not 'illustrate') to films from the American
Avante-Garde (50s-60s etc) which we love. This is an under-known period
of American filmic poetics, which everyone should see. So far it's been
all Brakhage but a gig this coming weekend adds a new twist, and the first
trio formation of the group. --LR This Sunday Sept
15 is the first of the fall dates, with a benifit for Anthology Film Archives,
NYC legendary film venue. Details for that show and others as below: Benefit for Anthology Film Archives: Music For Harry Smith Text of Light Text of Light JIM RECORD AND PERFORMANCE UPDATE Jim has a new record with Fennoberg, described as "sort of the Emerson, Lake, and Palmer of electronic music". The group consists of Jim, Fennesz, and Pita. The new record is on Mego and is entitled "The Return of Fennoberg" Jim's label Moikai has just released "Guitar too, for Four" an awesome superdrone masterpiece by Phill Niblock, with Thurston and Lee, as well as our friends Alan Licht, Kevin Drumm, and Rafael Toral. The band "Loose Fur" which is Jim O'Rourke, Jeff Tweedy, and Glenn Kotche, will be releasing their debut record on Drag City in January. Also, from September 14 to the 17th, Jim will be touring Japan with Mirror, for which the linup is O'Rourke/Christoph Heemann/Andrew Chalk. The info is as follows: *9/14 (Sat) at L@N
Akasaka *9/15 (Sun) at Roppongi
Hills Information Center / THINK ZONE *9/16 (Mon) at Aoyama
CAY *9/17 (Tue) at Kyoto
CLUB METRO In D.C. I joined erase errata (who were playing with us) to create a band called "The Anxious Rats". Actually there were several names. Anyway we played five songs in about five minutes. The lovely Mary Timony and her band danced to a song called "Body Bag" that Jenny from Erase Errata had choreographed. It was hot... it rocked, it was the shit. We actually played the body bag song twice, but some of us (me) didn't realize it till it was half over. It was sweet. Thurston shot some 32 sec. films of it on the digital camera maybe we'll post on the site. It was the best band I was ever in. (except for free kitten and sy of course.) Only one ten minute rehersal. Okay that's all for now. xx kim You can get into some photos of the Magas/Sonic Youth show here. Thurston and Lee will be reading at Book Beat in Oak Park, MI on Friday Aug. 16 from noon-1:30pm. Please call to reserve
titles or for further information: Book Beat, 26010
Greenfield, Oak Park, MI 48237 Exerpts from the press release follow: Ground Zero: New
Yorkers Respond (ISBN 0-9715811-7-7)
Austin 073102
followed by: There is some discussion of a group 'reading' of Raymon Pettibon's play
"Sir Drone" at an instore later this summer... Below is a fan's
eye view fr the gossip page of the site which fleshes is out a bit more
than I have:
Check it out, there's some SY pictures on the Fujirock website. They are on three different pages so here's the three links: SY INSTORE ACTIVITIES USA 2002 While Sonic Youth tours the United States this August, the band will take advantage of spare moments to appear at record stores live and in person in the following cities and on the following dates in the configurations listed below:
Wednesday, July 31 Waterloo Records 600A N. Lamar 5pm performance and signing
Saturday, August 3 Virgin Megastore Jackson Brewery-Brewhouse 5-8ish Steve Shelley musical programme
Wednesday, August 28 Amoeba Records 1855 Haight st. 3pm performance and signing
Thursday, August 29 Music Millennium 801 N.W. 23rd st. 4pm performance and signing
Hope you can make it. SY TO PLAY SUNSET JUNCTION STREET FAIR AUG. 24 Well the two El Ray shows are sold out but the people of L.A. have one other opportunity to see Sonic Youth live this summer. The band will perform as part of a benefit concert block party on August 24th. The donation for entrance is six dollars, and benifits the Sunset Junction Neighborhood Alliance. From the group's website: "The Sunset
Junction Neighborhood Alliance is a non-profit organization dedicated
to improving the quality of life in the community of silver lake, echo
park and los feliz and the greater los angeles area. Understanding and
acceptance of cultural diversity life styles and gender are the motivation
for our efforts. There are three stages for music, so in addition to catching Mudhoney the same day, attendees can hope for mariachis and more. BRIEF NOTES FR THE FIELD (EUROPE) BY LEE 070902 Here is the only official download from the new album. You might still wanna wait until you can hold the real thing in your hands and hear it in it's entirety, or you might just give in to tempatation and click here. MURRAY ST. INFOS AND RELEASE DATE The new SY album, MURRAY STREET, is now complete and ready to rock. We have good news for SY fans in the United States- the relase date of the CD has been moved one week closer to right now. The date is June 25. Fans of the LP format need not fret: the vinyl edition (packaged in a handsome gatefold cover) is being prepared by the SYR/My-So-Called-Records cartel and will be in stores at the same time. SONIC YOUTH Murray
Street MURRAY ST. RELEASED IN NORTH AMERICA THIS WEEK We are proud to present this Tuesday June 25 to the people of the Americas the new Sonic Youth album entitled "Murray Street" and hope that it might bring crushing rock power to those who partake of it. MORE DATES AVAILABLE FOR ADVANCE PURCHASE A few days before tickets officially go on sale, you can purchase them online in quantities of four or less. The Ticketmaster fee applies, but no extra charges are added for getting the advance deal. As of June 10 you can buy tickets online for the following shows: 8/2 - Austin, TX
- Stubb's Click here to purchase these pigs. SONIC REHEARSAL WEBCAST SUNDAY JUNE 9 This sunday the echocam which constantly monitors the action here at the studio will be beefed up temporarily. In full streaming video and audio we will present a webcast of Sonic Youth as they prepare for their upcoming summer tour. The concert, titled "Rehearsin' for Ya" will take place at 4pm EST. SONIC YOUTH FREE CONCERT IN CENTRAL PARK We're finally allowed to disclose the NYC venue for the summer tour, and it is Central Park! Last rocked by SY in 1992, the summerstage series in Central Park is a summer-long string of free outdoor concerts. Also on the bill are the composer/ improviser/multi-instrumentalist Wadada Leo Smith, who will be leading a group referred to as his "Golden Quartet", and Monolake, performing a DJ set. The date is August 11. Well, it took much longer than we expected but the echocam is back online! Just click on the word "Echocam" to the right and you can watch us eat lunch. We're trying to think up some more amusing antics to use this thing for, look here for updates. CONCERT CHRONOLOGY AND GEAROGRAPHY NOW ON SY.COM Many people may already be familiar with these two amazing tools which exist thanks to the tireless travails of Sonic Youth afficianado and web-archivist Chris Lawrence. They now exist right here on sonicyouth.com for your convenience and so that they may be used by a wider audience. In short: the concert chronology lists every single gig ever played by Sonic Youth, often including the set list and sometimes other bands on the bill or whatever other information Chris can dig up. It also has a unique feature called "tour statistics" for every year so you get get an overview. Wanna know how many times "Theresa's Sound World" was played in 1993? You can find out right here. The gearography, meanwhile, attempts to list every last instrument ever plucked, bashed, strummed, or tinkled by Sonic Youth. The mass of info here is stunning. Need to cop Lee's Moogerfooger settings? No problem. Just follow this link and start clicking away. Thanks to the effort of several friendly people, we've got a bunch of the evol tour tapes we were looking for. We're still searching for the following gigs:
If anyone has tapes of these shows, please contact studio@sonicyouth.com. Needless to say, the earliest generation you can hunt down is the best, it would be amazing to get original cassettes or reels! Thanks everybody. SONIC YOUTH SUMMER TOURING 2002 Hey All---we're currently planning summer touring schedules to coincide with the release of the new album. Here's what we know so far: From mid-June through mid-July SY will be in Europe, and for the month of August in North America. There may even be a Japanese date or two in there as well. For more details and to buy tickets online, head over to our calendar section. SONIC YOUTH SEEKS HELP FINDING EVOL TOUR TAPES As work progresses on the EVOL tour film, it has become apparent that there is no known audio documentation of many of the gigs other than the mic on the VHS camera the movie was shot on. That little mic got pounded. It sounds pretty darn cool, but it has been making people wonder what other tapes exist of these gigs, perhaps to replace some of the camera sound. Tapes are being sought of the following gigs: 6/27/86 Houston -
Café Mode If anyone has tapes of these shows, please contact studio@sonicyouth.com. Needless to say, the earliest generation you can hunt down is the best, it would be amazing to get original cassettes or reels! Thanks everybody. SONIC STOLEN GUITAR RETURNED!Thanks to the eagle eyes of British fan Gareth Hardwick who matched the serial number on an ebay auction to one of Lee's Travis Bean guitars, the first item from among all the stuff which was stolen out in Orange County CA back in July of 1999 has been returned! A fellow in the Pacific Northwest had bought the guitar from someone in Orange County CA (hey how bout that...) w/o knowing it was stolen property. SY reimbursed the fellow for what he'd spent on the guitar, and authorities in LA are currently investigating further leads that have been provided (so far with little success unfortunately). Thanks Gareth for the tipoff! Any other SY fans who might want to try out their sleuthing skills on our behalf are directed to the page on our site that lists all the gear which was stolen, serial numbers, etc (SY.com>History>Equipment>Stolen Gear). Thanks in advance for any further help--we figure out of all that stuff SOMEthing else will surface as some point...
In late-breaking ATP-related news, the Sonic Matters/Sonic Kollaborations show will be coming along for the trip to California! The show will be up at the Alleged Galleries Annex space at 971 Chung King Road in L.A. from March 15 to April 30, with an opening on March 14 from 6-9pm. Here's an excerpt from the press release: "The Annex is pleased to announce Sonic Matters, Sonic Kollaborations, an exhibition exploring a wide range of ephemera an printed matter either produced by, or in collaboration with, the popular New York musical collective Sonic Youth. Matrials exhibited include punk-inspired concert flyers, posters, zines (including issues of Thurston Moore's self-published Sonic Death and Killer), writings by band members (including Kim Gordon's projects for Real Life and Artforum); an artist book by Lee Ranaldo, and of course record and compact disk designs, etc. All materials in Sonic matters, Sonic Kollaborations were created to be reproduced inexpensively. The exhibition, which has been cuarted by Todd Alden, will run from March 15th through April 30th. An opening event will take place on March 14th, from 6.00 to 9.00 p.m."
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