
UPCOMING DATES (all shows Lee Ranaldo and The Dust unless noted – Lee with Steve Shelley, Alan Licht & Tim Luntzel): May 25 Columbus, OH. Ace of Cups. May 26 Bloomington, IN The Bishop May 27 Chicago, IL. Downtown Sound at Millennium Park, with Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog. June 6 Montreal, Quebec. LR solo acoustic [...]

Lee will exhibit some ‘Lost Highway’ drawings – sketches done from the front seat of the tour van during last summer’s LRB tours in Europe and USA – at Galeria Pedro Oliveira in Porto, Portugal, 27 April-8 June, 2013, alongside the work of Sonic friend Joao Paulo Feliciano, who will be showing collages of amplifiers. [...]

Rutherford Chang has created a project which has kind of fascinated a few of us Beatles freaks and record geeks of late, I thought I’d pass on some information about his endeavor to amass as many copies of The Beatles White Album as he can! He’s created a sort of record store/exhibit where folks can [...]

Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo on John Cage, on the occasion of his performances with dancers from Merce Cunningham’s company at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, January 4,5 & 6, 2013, as part of the exhibition Dancing Around The Bride: Duchamp, Cage, Cunningham, Rauchenberg and Johns. Interview January 3, 2013 by Elliot Sharp: Lee Ranaldo is best [...]

The original concept for this video had me sitting in a vast winter landscape, near fields and distant trees blanketed with snow, all blown-out white. Lots of other images were to be overlayed on that scene. But the winter of 2011-2012 didn’t cooperate – there was no snow on the east coast! So the whole [...]

Finally got BluRay hooked up and watched Magical Mystery Tour + extras which I thought all great. Hadn’t seen it since some screening in college. It mines every avant camera technique fr 60s (looks like Mekas or Brakhage at times) back to Melies, and it’s context, really, is the pre-Beatles UK-all these goofy old stage+screen [...]

A video for Stranded by Kelly Jeffrey (who also shot the cover photo for the LP ‘Between the Times and the Tides’), shot in NYC and created in Toronto. CREDITS: Subject: Michael Raymond Clarke Directed and Photographed by: Kelly Jeffrey Produced by: Joseph Clement Editor: Calum Moore Production Designer: Erika Lobko 1st AC + [...]

The first release by Glacial Trio (Lee Ranaldo: gtrs, Tony Buck: drums, David Watson: bagpipes/gtr), on the Three Lobed record label. This is a vinyl LP in silkscreened cover in an edition of 750 copies. LP includes download of the full track and three additional live cuts. Contrary to the title of this LP, this [...]

this interview can be found online HERE POP MATTERS In My Own Space: A Conversation with Lee Ranaldo By Robert Alford March 28, 2012 For over 30 years, Sonic Youth has been at the forefront of independent rock music, perfecting their singular vision of sprawling, experimental noisescapes channeled through the unlikely medium of popular song. [...]

Please check out my tumblr site on artist Maya Kalman’s work, and if you are in downtown Manhattan, please send me a photo of yourself at the site—find yr city or yr dream— http://tidesandtimes-walkingmen99.tumblr.com/

A collection of Instagram images from touring and travels… you can clik on the pix for the captions etc. This page is still a work in progress…. clik on any image to start a slide show and see orig captions.

MAY 2012 Just pressed up, a tour only twelve inch record (w download card) that collects all the ‘band demos’ currently in circulation–8 tracks recorded by Lee and rhythm section of Steve Shelley and Irwin Menken prior to the sessions for Between the Tides and the Times. Also a 7″ with the two ‘alternate mixes’ [...]