ALL STATISTICS TO BE UPDATED VERY VERY SOON. I still have a handful of poster scans to add later and probably more new (old) set lists soon...keep sending stuff...

JULY 28

alright, onwards to the actual important shit. this is a huge update. if you've sent me any information in the past year and a half, it should be up now. if not, send it again. here we go.......

July 26 -- salt lake city set (can somebody doublecheck?)

July 23 -- las vegas set.

July 22 -- phoenix set, thanx chris kelley!

July 21 -- san diego set. need proper LA set..

July 20 later -- fixed san fran set (thanx michael zelner!), need to know where 'white kross' fits into seattle set.

July 20 -- rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated or are at least slightly premature. 2004 up to date, everybody's favorite TOUR STATISTICS have even returned.

STILL WORKING ON A MAJOR BACKLOG OF SHIT....SERIOUSLY. PLEASE KEEP SENDING INFO, IT WILL ALL SEE PRINT SOMEDAY......

May 3 -- 2004 set lists up to date. not a lot of time to do this anymore between workin' & rockin' my own racket, but i will do my best to keep the set lists up to date during the tour, without any fancy stats or individual pages slowin' me down...i have one more big 'real' update coming soon, so if you have any information to submit (though if you've sent anything within the past year, it's going in this update) please drop me a line...

SY will be doing a june swing thru australia & new zealand prior to their summer reprise of lollapalooza in support of their excellent "SONIC NURSE" LP. also, watch for them on everybody's favorite NBC late night comedy show...next time they're on conan. til then, catch them for the first time ever on the tonight show w/ jay leno on wednesday, june 9th.

November 10th -- correct ATP set list posted.

November 3rd -- ok, clearly very behind schedule over here (keep sending info though, it does all get saved!)...NEWS: SY played a secret gig 2 nights ago debuting 3 new songs: "CITY GRASS" "MAACO" and "UNMADE BED" (as well as the relatively new "PEACE ATTACK" and "MARIAH" they've been playing throughout the year). SY's next appearance will be at the "all tomorrow's parties" festival in california this weekend. set lists for all missing 2003 shows are now added temporarily, pages to come.....

July 5th -- there you go.

June 18th -- heeeeeey uuuuhhhh/.........sets for now, bells & whistles later.

April 29th -- coachella set.

April 9th -- more tour dates.

April 4th -- added all current tour dates. (i think.)

February 24th -- Japan sets in. Also some forthcoming SY festival appearances, at Coachella in April and Bonaroo in June.

February 11th -- just added a few more things, some sources, new tape finder submissions, etc... please folks, don't be shy, if you're looking for any SY shows, drop me a line + i'll add yer info to the tape finder page...

February 3rd -- Well folks, this is the first serious design overhaul this page has seen in 3 years. I've wanted to reconfigure the individual show pages for ages and ages but never quite felt like altering nearly 1000 different html files... however, the work is done, and I'm thrilled with the results. Let me detail the changes:

-- All of the Sonic Youth show pages have been reformatted. In addition to previously existing set list/opening band information, I've added notes on whether recordings of each show exist, for those of you interested in collecting (or just tracking down a show you saw). I myself am not a huge collector and have very very few of these shows, but the information should be fairly accurate. Surprisingly, I'm not concerned with every single nuance of each source, I just want to provide basic info on whether the show is out there in some form. If a show says "No known sources", that simply means I'm not aware of one existing----in many instances, I'm sure one's out there somewhere, and if you can provide info, please please do. I'm fairly sure that the band has an extensive archive of soundboard recordings of their shows, but for obvious reasons these aren't counted under sources unless they've been released in some way.

-- I'm somewhat depressed by the lack of enthusiastic SY traders, especially given the wealth of tapes out there, so in addition to the source info I've set up a new page designed to help breathe some life into the SY collecting scene...scope out the "tape finder" link below.

-- I've also added a long overdue "links" page, which I'd like help building (however, I'm only interested in links dealing with LIVE sonic for the purposes of this site). Aside from the SY links, I've linked to about a dozen fantastic set list resources for other bands that are in some way SY-related.

-- I, uh, rewrote the "introduction" as more of a FAQ type thang, but it's still horribly rambling and largely unnecessary. Woo!

-- I actually added this a couple weeks ago, but you may not have noticed, so check out the "CITY STATISTICS" section below!

I hope y'all dig the new design. I'm glad to have extinguished the previous aesthetic nightmare of a layout, though you'll notice all of the solo pages remain the same. This isn't going to change. In fact, I officially give up trying to catalog all of the solo dates --- sonicyouth.com's gig calendar goes back to about the time I lost track, so it's a nice trade off. The existing solo dates will be unaffected though.

Comments/submissions/information/vicious criticism encouraged as always!

Rock on. --CL