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We're performing at and booking one of the day/nights of the All Tomorrows Parties festival in the UK this April 2004. Since the USA has presented such relentless bozo-scum (talking politics and reality tv here) to the rest of the world we decided to just have American bands that we think are radical/creative play as a pronouncement of what we think is good here. Most of the acts we chose couldn't hardly get over there otherwise. Anyone at all familiar with what Wire magazine calls the New Weird America or had been present at the De Stijl music fest in Minneapolis last August will know what we mean. Let's just say bands like Wolf Eyes and a dozen others are gonna shred some action beyond borders. LYDIA LUNCH INTERVIEWS THURSTON Cool interview with paintings by Steve Keene on Napster. From Oct 24 to March 7 The Kunsthalle in Vienna will be the venue for a show entitled "Go Johnny Go- The Electric Guitar, Art and Myth." Sonic Youth has an installation "The Destroyed Stage" which is comprised in part by instruments and amplifiers with deep band history. Lee also has three sculpture/guitar works from the HWY SONG series, with video and sound. More information available here. ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES NEXT WEEK Saturday November 8 Sonic Youth will headline the two-day festival aboard the Queen Mary which will feature the Watt/Hurley Minutemen Duet, Deerhoof, Iggy and the Stooges, the Magic Band, Mission of Burma, James Chance and the Contortions...and many more amazing groups. More info. Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Leah Singer, Matthew Wascovich, Tyondai Braxton, and Stefano Giovanni offer words and pictures about the '03 blackout in 3AM Magazine. MONSOON A trio consisting of Lee Ranaldo, Willaim Hooker and Roger Miller has initiated a new series on the Atavistic label. The series is dedicated to out trios and is kicked off with this disc titled Monsoon. Below is what the Atavistic site has to say: Atavistic’s
Out Trios Series is dedicated exclusively to issuing the most captivating
instrumental music available- as deployed within the context, structure
& constraints of the trio format. The Series is an open-ended experiment
in freedom, interaction & sonic architecture. NEW LIFE AFTER FIRE Art Metropole, the Toronto art gallery which was one of the venues for the Sonic Matters/Sonic Kollaborations show, has released a CD by Lee Ranaldo and Dave Dyment entitled New Life After Fire (for Tom Thomson). The recording is the complete set from a live performance at Lee’s Palace in Toronto, on September 5, 2001. Look for more information at artmetropole.com. DIRTY DELUXE VINYL NOW AVAILABLE "Rock has never seen a band quite like Sonic Youth. Dirty is a great Sonic Youth disc...among the band's most unified and unforgettable recorded works...The aura of insurgency provides a charged context for the disc's more personal songs, upping the intensity and the emotional stakes and fusing a collection of diverse tracks into a scorched and scorching whole. Dirty is a burner." --Robert Palmer, Rolling Stone, 1992 Sonic Youth's 1992 landmark album Dirty has been released as a quadruple vinyl boxed set. This Deluxe Edition adds numerous B-sides and 11 never-before-released rehearsal recordings to the original tracklisting. Not to mention, a booklet with essays from Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, and Byron Coley plus more. The vinyl box is available by mailorder exclusively through midheaven.com.
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