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Lee has a new CD with Campbell Kneale (Birchville Cat Motel), recorded live at Tonic in NYC and titled '30th December 2004.' More info here. The third installment of the archive-raiding Sonic Youth mixtapes is available via the link above. This volume consists of unheard outtakes from NYC Ghosts + Flowers, Sonic Nurse, and a Thousand Leaves, a killer deep cut from 'Confusion is Next' and recently discovered rarities uncovered while compiling the 'Goo' deluxe edition so rare that they are only available here on this mixtape. Lee Ranaldo, Ulrich Krieger, Alan Licht, Christian Marclay, and William Hooker will perform as the Text of Light group alongside the films of Stan Brakhage at the Kitchen in NYC on Oct. 6th and 7th. Sets start at 8:30 each night. TEXT OF LIGHT TRIO AT FILMMAKERS CO-OP BENEFIT A trio version of Text of Light players: Lee Ranaldo, Alan Licht, and Tim Barnes, will perform at the 2nd annual Filmakers Co-op Benefit September 27 at the Angel Orensanz Foundation in NYC. Benefit info here. More Text of Light info at the TOL website. Steve's label, Smells Like Records, will present a night of music during this year's CMJ Festival Sept. 15 at The Living Room in NYC. The complete line-up includes Smells Like Records artists and friends : Kieran McGee, Ursa Minor, Smokey's Secret Family (featuring guitarist Smokey Hormell), Chris Lee with Tim Luntzel and Steve Shelley, Jesse Harris, and Tony Scherr. DJ's will be Aaron Mullan, Tom Surgal, Hal Willner, and Glenn Kotche. More info here. THURSTON AND JIM WITH YOSHIMI IN JAPAN Thurston and Jim will perform with Yoshimi as Blind Beast at two concerts celebrating the 15th Anniversary of Time Bomb Records: September 18 at the Tokyo Quattro, and September 19 at the Osaka Quattro. Also on both bills are the Evens, plus more in each city. Scoop on the Smash site. FOUR NEW SY SONGS DEBUTED AT FLYWHEEL Thurston, Kim and Steve made an impromptu appearance at the Flywheel in Easthampton, MA on July 18 performing 4 new songs Sonic Youth have been working on in rehearsals. The songs were 'Helen Lundeberg', 'Or','Do You Believe in Rapture' and "Pink Steam'. Also appearing that night were Afri Rampo and Lightning Bolt. Footage of the evening can be found here. Sonic Youth are excited to be part of Arthur Magazine's Arthurfest in L.A. September 4. The lineup is almost too good to believe, check the Arthur site . Also, a second California date has just been added: September 2 in San Diego at the House of Blues. June 12, 1985, Steve Shelley played his first show with Sonic Youth at Folk City in NYC. The show started with four drummers: Steve, Bob Bert, and King Coffey and Theresa Taylor of the Butthole Surfers. Eventually the others departed and SY entered the era of the classic quartet. The songs 'Green Light' and 'Expressway to yr Skull' also made their debut at this show. Sonic Youth's sound engineer Aaron Mullan wrote an article for Vice magazine online about his worst moments at the sound board. Sonic Youth are putting the finishing touches on their Deluxe Edition re-issue of 1990's "Goo". The 2xCD edition will be released by Universal/Geffen while the 4xLP vinyl edition will be released by SY's own Goofin' imprint via SLR. The Deluxe Edition of "Goo" will include the original LP remastered along with remixed/remastered 8-track demos, B-sides, rehearsal tracks, studio out-takes and more. A deluxe full-color LP size booklet will be included in the vinyl box set with essays by Byron Coley and Mark Kates.
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