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PROTEST-RECORDS.COM READY TO ROCK Protest-Records.com offers free MP3's and stencils to share, not to sell. Verbatim from the site: WWW.PROTEST-RECORDS.COM (as curated by Thurston Moore and Chris Habib) exists for musicians, poets and artists to express LOVE + LIBERTY in the face of greed, sexism, racism, hate-crime and war. FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT The current releases as of 3/27/03:
SY TO PREFORM STAN BRAKHAGE MEMORIAL BENEFIT Sonic Youth will perform April 12 at Anthology Film Archives in New York City as a memorial tribute to Stan Brakhage, one of America's great film artists and visionary film pioneer, who died on March 9. This concert will be a benefit to assist in the coverage of his medical expenses. This will be an intimate, predominantly instrumental "chamber concert", with an assortment of Brakhage films screened during the performance. The performance will begin at 9:00pm. Tickets are $50 and will be available at Anthology and Other Music. Anthology Film Archives will also present a large retrospective of Stan Brakhage's work from April 4-15. Thurston
will be appearing outside the abstract strictures of SY thusly: *Saturday
March 1 "Songs of Protest: The Vietnam Songbook" Joe's Pub at
The Public Theater A
unique event celebrating the protest-song tradition through performances
of repertoire drawn from the definitive sourcebook, The Vietnam Songbook.
The evening will feature musical performances by artists who've experienced
the '60's anti-War movement including legendary protest singer/blues singer
Barbara Dane, and Tuli Kupferberg (Fugs), activist singer/songwriter Bev
Grant, along with noted Vietnam Vet/musicians Watermelon Slim, Joe Bangert,
Noble I'm Manu El:Bey and younger musicians such as Thurston Moore, Jenni
Muldaur, Barry Reynolds, Jim O'Rourke, Stephan Smith, Dean Wareham, David
Licht, Lenny Kaye and Curtis Eller. They will all be rendering material
drawn from The Vietnam Songbook and other examples of anti-war songs from
that time. The performers involved are keenly aware and intend to highlight
parallels between being "waist deep in the big muddy" (to quote
a Pete Seeger song) of the war in Vietnam and the current beating of war
drums. "Revolution is a continuous and dynamic process if it exists
at all" said Bill Homans, aka Watermelon Slim, Vietnam Vet whose
anti-war songs from 1973 will be featured at the show. *Friday March 7th: White Out with Jim O'Rourke & Thurston Moore At Tonic 107 Norfolk Street between Delancey and Rivington Sts NYC 8pm & 10pm Outside agitators White Out join forces with frequent co-conspirators Jim O'Rourke & Thurston Moore for an evening of sonic reduction-- "Notes and chords mean nothing to us."
Lee will be appearing in the following locations at the following times: March 21 Tonic NYC $12 After Yodel: New Swiss Music: Swiss Peaks Festival Day 1 (curated by Christian Marclay) 11pm: Stephan Wittwer, Lee Ranaldo & Alan Licht Midnight: Open combinations (also incl. Mytha, Norbert Moeslang, Marina Rosenfeld, Dorothea Schuerch, Toshio Kajiwara). March 26-April 2 Text of Light European Tour. Line-up: Lee Ranaldo/Alan Licht/Uli Krieger/DJ Olive/Tim Barnes. Bologna, Italy (mar 28@Link) Venice, Italy (mar 29@ mestre/Rizonanze Festival) Paris, France (mar 31@Pompidou Center) Berlin, Germany (apr
1@Podewil). June 1 Text of Light,
Nancy (Vandoeuvre), France Musique Action Festival line-up: Lee Ranaldo/Alan
Licht/Uli Kreiger/DJ Olive/William Hooker. June 5 Christian Marclay/Lee Ranaldo Hammer Museum, LA July 26 David Watson, Lee Ranaldo, Tony Buck Marseilles, France MIMI Festival STREAMING FIELDS OF SONIC LOVE The Kali Yug Express Ep, previously available only as a limited edition French 10" record, is now available for streaming on sonicyouth.com. Click on Murray Stream to the right. On Feb. 14, justconcerts.com will begin streaming the August 15 2002 SY concert from Toronto, which has been previously aired on the CBC. Plenty of other cool concerts on the site too... SY RECORDS FOR SPLIT 7" WITH ERASE ERRATA The past weekend found Sonic Youth recording a new song for a split single on Narnack Records with Erase Errata. The song is entitled "Mariah Carey and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream" and features Kim on lead vocal and someone else on backups. It's a rocker folks, so be prepared. The film Demonlover, with the soundtrack by Sonic Youth, will have it's first stateside screenings at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center. It will be showing on January 31 and February 1,2, and 9. For more info click here. DISCONNECTION NOTICE 2ND VID FROM MURRAY ST Director/Percussionist Tom Surgal has directed a new video for Disconnection Notice, which has been described as part Dogma 95, part Pettibon, part reality TV. But mere words may not describe this work. Look for it where? MTV? Look here for further updates.
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