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Here's new Top Fives here for you:
1. Gerhard Richter
show @ MOMA
1. "Little Murders"
- dir. Alan Arkin KIM 1. The Osbournes THURSTON 1. Erase Errata live STEVE (a tribute to Sade, Grammy Winner 2002) 1. Lover's Rock -
Sade STEVE TO TOUR WITH CHRIS LEE ON WEST COAST Chris Lee has been burning up the highways for the months of February and March on his first-ever solo tour, which has included a leg opening for British band Starsailor and will wrap up on the West Coast with a string of dates following All Tomorrow's Parties. Steve has been playing on the NYC area dates over the past two months, and will play ATP as well as the western seaboard gigs. See the calendar for the dates and venues... Lee is getting set
to do a number of varied performances far and wide over the next few months.
In January he will join the ever excitable William Hooker and an as-yet-unnamed
third for a trio at the Knitting Factory in NYC. In Feb Lee will team
up with Roger Miller (Mission of Burma) for 2 Massachussetts shows, one
with Hooker drumming and another with recent Thurston collaborator Chris
Corsano on drums. On a trip to Portugal, Lee and long-time collaborator
Leah Singer will match guitars and projectors with the Portugese duo of
guitarist Rafael Toral and artist Paulo Feliciano, and Lee will also perform
on a shared bill with British writer/composer David Toop. Following ATP
in March Lee and guests will accompany Leah's live film projections at
the far out Frank Gehry-designed Experience Music Project's film series
in Seattle. Further down the road, in May, Lee and the other members of
the Text of Light group (for this performance Hooker/Ulrich Kreiger/Alan
Licht/DJ Olive and Lee) will perform with Stan Brakhage films at the Musique
Actuelle Festival in Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada. DISKAHOLICS ANONYMOUS TRIO IN JAPAN DISKAHOLICS ANONYMOUS
TRIO is Mats Gustafsson (tubax, ts, french flageolet) Jim O'Rourke (synth,
computer) Thurston Moore (g). They are an improvising all-free-and-experimental-and-shit
trio and they made a CD in 2001 for a Swedish label called Crazy Wisdom.
ONLINE STUDIO TOUR & OTHER VIDEO PROJECTS In a recent effort
to manage his archives, our webmaster has been exhuming projects previously
banished to DAT backup tapes and shifting them to DVD. Some of note to
those of you reading this might be: the video for Nevermind (What Was
It Anyway?), the EVOL tour movie and the electronic press kit (EPK) mini-film
for A Thousand Leaves. Finished products and release news will surface
as information becomes available. The EPK film is presently online for
viewing in our music
video archive. Editing on the EVOL movie will resume shortly, and
the Nevermind (What Was It Anyway?) footage is sitting on a shiny new
portable hard drive, ready for finishing. Following on the
heels of superb reissues of Marvin Gaye's What's Goin' On, the Who's Live
at Leeds, and Bob Marley's Catch A Fire, the folks at Universal have decided
to give the deluxe CD treatment to 3 SY albums -- Dirty, Goo, and Daydream
Nation. Expect lavishly repackaged 2-disk sets, consisting of the original
tracks re-mastered in their original running order, plus handpicked demos,
live versions, outtakes, and B-sides from the archive. THIS JUST IN FROM SHELLEY-CAM: NEW SADE, the group, like blondie, has a NEW LIVE ALBUM, released FEBRUARY 5!!!! yes kids, the love is back, WAY back, and it's entitled "LOVERS LIVE", as in "live" not "live".For the "visually oriented" a stunning DVD, featuring our own STEVE SHELLEY (in the audience) called "LOVERS LIVE" however this time, it IS "live", not "live". check it out...www.sade.com Jane magazine is repressing the compilation on which the SY track Plastic Sun appears, and this time the song will sound correct. Sorry about that one, folks. JIM O'ROURKE SEEN AT SPA WITH THORA BIRCH AND CANDI APPLES AFTER "I AM SAM" SCREENING After the yawn-fest that was "I Am Sam" where Sonic Youth sort-of member JIM O'ROURKE was tossed after heckling the screen (sample: "who cares?! Let's party!!") he was seen boogying ferociously w/ such cinematic amazonian up'n'comers as THORA "ghost world" BIRCH and CANDI "ocean's eleven inches" APPLES. "Hey I love to get down w/ hot hollywood babes - i don't care what genre they perform in!" slurred the always buoyant o'rourke. Meanwhile THURSTON MOORE, tallest non-musician of noise punks sonic youth was pacing their ground zero studio waiting to do critical vocal overdubs. "I called his cell phone and all i heard was moronic gurgling" reports Moore. "I simply yelled "dude! Leann Rimes is here and she's completely nuts!!" - needless to say,within 20 minutes O'rourke came hauling ass back to the studio and , yes, the sessions are running smooth as a cool slice of vanilla pie. Thanksgivings over
-- everybody happy?-- anybody have a family punchout worth relating? Let
us know - go to our gossip page and spill baby! -- but puh-leeze refrain
from flowing rumors about any of us getting in any carwrecks unless yr
pos about it cuz -- well it creates unwanted hypertension, dig?. Here's some recent
top 5s of ours: For those of you who thought the greatness of the echocam was guessing which person each dim blob was supposed to represent, it's over. The new color cam is in effect, and we have the ability to move it to the live room so you can watch the work on the new LP. You may have read about this on the SLR site, and yup, it is true. Interscope will be releasing Deluxe versions of Daydream Nation, Goo, and Dirty later this year. We've been raiding the tape vault and have left no stone unturned in the search for what material exists that could shed new light on each album. Perhaps shredding live footage, or B-sides, demos, rehearsal tapes. Even weirder ideas have been mentioned. No word yet on when these are going to be released, we'll let you know once we do
BASIC
TRACKS STILL BEING ROCKED Progress on the new LP is being made. At this point we have takes of all five new songs played at the last few gigs, plus one more which is a sort of funky uptempo number. Also in the studio, work is going down on several new SYR releases also slated for this year.
DEMONLOVER ACTION IN SONIC STUDIO On the weekend of December 7,8, and 9 Demonlover director Olivier Assayas and his French friends came to work on the film soundtrack with SY. The band had been sending him music since August, mostly collages made from jams recorded while writing material for the new album. The Demonlover crew brought the film with the sound synched up on a hard drive and jacked in to the sonic G4. The vibe was great, the director, the band, and the sound designer all critiquing the cues together. Olivier the sound designer and Jim took turns rocking the Pro Tools. When needed the band would simply move into the next room and whip up some new sounds. This thing should be pretty darn rockin' when all is said and done.
PAPERBOX PEACE.
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