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NEWS, DATES, ANNOUNCEMENTS
UPCOMING DATES (all shows Lee Ranaldo and The Dust unless noted* – Lee with Steve Shelley, Alan Licht & Tim Luntzel): June 14 Amsterdam, NL. Holland Festival. Lee will premiere a new half-hour work, “Hurricane Transcriptions,” for the Berlin string ensemble Kaleidoskop under the direction of Andre de Ridder. He will be playing and sings [...]
LOST HIGHWAY DRAWINGS
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. [...]
We Buy White Albums
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 [...]
LEE ON JOHN CAGE JANUARY 2013
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 [...]
HAMMER BLOWS video
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 [...]
REASSESSING magical mystery tour
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 [...]
STRANDED VIDEO
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 + [...]
Glacial Trio: On Jones Beach LP
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 [...]
Pop Matters Interview March 2012
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. [...]
Walking Men 99 pix request
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/
InstaGram Feed
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.
TOUR-ONLY ALBUM AND SINGLE
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’ [...]
VIDEOS: OFF THE WALL, ANGLES, +MORE
Here is the first video from my LP ‘Between the Tides and the Times’. Live footage shot by Patrick Suddath/Pantophobia at Glasslands, Brooklyn. Other footage shot by me: Battery Park trees, Holland tunnel, Frey in Walt Whitman’s woods, girl fr Calgary, MP3 experiment in Hudson River Park, David Linton installation at the Clocktower. Angles, [...]
LEE & LEAH BELO HORIZONTE BRASIL 4/29
Here are some videos that were posted of our show in Belo Horizonte. Many thanks to the troupe of 8 local drummers who performed with us. They play in the maracatu style. some photos, by Daniele Antonopoulos+Lucas Faria, Leah Singer, Matheus Fleming: While in BH we also visited Inhotim, a most amazing [...]
Between The Times & The Tides LP
“Off The Wall”, the first song from the LP “Between The Times & The Tides” is now up on Matador’s site for listening. This track is also out now (1/14) on vinyl+d/l on a low-priced Matador/True Panther sampler ($1.98!) called ‘Intended Play’. It’s also up on iTunes now (1/16). The album hits March 20, and [...]
Every Nuclear Explosion since 1945
My friend Fred sent me this amazing film, made by Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto, a time lapse of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project’s “Trinity” test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan’s nuclear tests in May of 1998 (This leaves out North Korea’s [...]
WAITING ON A DREAM-GLASSLANDS 121611
single camera. single take. handheld video. live edit by chris habib. live audio by nyctaper.com my band’s second NYC show. glasslands brooklyn. 12/16/11. live pix by Stefano Giovannini. Gtrs pic by Dave Cromwell. read Jesse Jarnow’s Village Voice review of the show HERE.
First Space Walk
In 1965 Leonov was the first man who performs e.v.a. Alexey Arkhipovich Leonov, Soviet/Russian cosmonaut who, on 18 March 1965, became the first human to walk in space. The craft was the Voskhod 2 spacecraft. Launch date: March 18, 1965. The mission consisted of two cosmonauts: Pilot Pavel Belyayev and co-Pilot Alexei Leonov. This mission [...]
‘Experimental Folksinger’ – Porto – 111911
I played a solo acoustic show Saturday night (not a frequent occurrence for me!) at Rem Koolhaus’ amazing Casa Da Musica concert hall in Porto, Portugal. Sort of ‘Experimental Folksinger’ mode haha… I was playing songs from my forthcoming LP ‘Between the Times & the Tides’ which comes out via Matador on March 20, 2012. [...]
scenes fr the LP sessions
Nels Cline: guitar, lap steel Alan Licht: guitar, marimba John Medeski: organ, farfisa, piano Irwin Menken: bass Lee Ranaldo: guitar, vocals, percussion Steve Shelley: drums with Bob Bert: Congas Kathy Leisen: backing vocals Jim O’Rourke: bass Leah Singer: riot vocal Van Morrison Discography Blowin’ Your Mind! (1967) Astral Weeks (1968) Moondance (1970) His Band and [...]
LR band/Bellhouse 101511 first gig pix etc
Here’s some photos and videos of my first gig, at The BellHouse in Brooklyn, opening for Wild Flag (who were fantastic). With Steve Shelley, Alan Licht, Irwin Menken. The album’s coming in March… Two videos shot by Pantophobia: These shots are by Maria Builes: guitars by Janet Weiss: 2 by Patrick Suddath: Setlist by JennBenn: [...]
paul & john 1968
hey–reading Pattie Boyd’s book that i still have of yrs—really enjoying it, actually–didn’t think I would after Suze Rotolo’s, which was a snooze… but it’s really fun. this pic of paul and john from 1968 really says it all for me about how their relationship probably was around that time–john starting to brood, go mean [...]
June 2010-Dennis Cooper Blogs LR
I just came across this page again from Dennis Cooper’s blog, and figured I’d create a post about it here. It’s called “10 things made at least in part by Lee Ranaldo’, and was done, unbeknownst to me, by Dennis in June of 2010. I was pretty flattered that he took the time to compile [...]
