twentyfourbit:

Steve Albini might think that Sonic Youth “should be embarrassed” about their career choices, but something tells me Thurston Moore could care less. Soldiering on with his excellent Ecstatic Peace Library record/book label, the SY guitarist/singer/noise professor has a brand new solo release on the way: In Silver Rain with a Paper Key, “a hardcover monograph containing two seven-inch vinyl records, as well as art, photographs, lyrics, poetry and other texts from Moore’s personal notebooks and visual archives.”

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twentyfourbit:

The stage of L.A.’s famous Hollywood Bowl has been graced by a host of classic bands over the past century, including the Beatles, the Doors, Pink Floyd, and many more, but the lineup for a triple bill on September 30 will firmly add a few indie rock giants to the famous venue’s canon. The Daily Swarm reports that the newly-reunited Pavement, No Age, and Sonic Youth will share the Bowl for that fateful night this fall.

Good news for roadies: though you’ll need to break down each band’s equipment between sets, Mark Ibold’s bass rig up can remain in place for both of his current bands, Pavement and Sonic Youth.

twentyfourbit:

Back in February, we were the first U.S. site to bring you news of Jim O’Rourke’s new Burt Bacharach tribute album, All Kinds of People ~Love Burt Bacharach~, which features performances by Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, O’Rourke himself, Wilco/Loose Fur’s Glenn Kotche on the drums, and many more.

Though the record dropped exclusively in Japan yesterday (check out 45-second snippets here or purchase the album via iTunes Japan), streaming below is Thurston Moore’s cover of the song made famous by Lou Johnson, Sandie Shaw and Dionne Warwick: “(There’s) Always Something There To Remind Me.” (Thanks for the tip, Sarah!)

Listen to Moore, O’Rourke, and Kotche cover Bacharach here or below:

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twentyfourbit:

No wonder Sonic Youth members and Ryan Adams get along so well: they all have a brilliantly unrelenting muse. Between Thurston Moore’s upcoming book, solo album, Jandek show, tributes, Lee Ranaldo’s own art exhibitions and Steve Shelley’s new band, it’s getting hard to even keep up with Sonic Youth side-projects as they come through the wire. Here’s the latest update from the Kim Gordon camp:

Rizzoli New York will publish Gordon’s new multimedia art book Performing/Guzzling, reports Art Info (via The Daily Swarm), a collection of watercolors, paintings, photographs, and poetry based on “[w]hat she sees when looking at her audience while performing.”

“Looking out into the audience,” Gordon writes, “light comes from the projector at the back of the hall… They appear as a collective mood… I wish I had a camera to record [what] it looks like.”

For more info and a few scans from Performing/Guzzling go here.

twentyfourbit:

We’ve heard from Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo about the top three albums of the decade, and now we have a year-end list from guitarist (and Gossip Girl fanboy) Thurston Moore. On the official site of his record label, Ecstatic Peace, Moore contributed to an ongoing poll of the best live performances from 2009. I’ve listed his picks below, but you should definitely check out Moore’s amusing blurbs here, as well.

1) John Olson and Khristopher Reinshagen “in the basement of some pad in
Detroit”, Michigan.

2) Cold Cave [opening for Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr.] at Terminal 5, New York City

3) Jesus Lizard at Irving Plaza in NYC and Awesome Color at Glasslands in Brooklyn.

Thurston declares David Yow’s stage banter, “Thank you, you’ll never see us again,” the best end of gig line ever.

4) Leslie Keffer and Thurston Moore in Nashville, TN

“I only list this because I got to smash my guitar in Leslies face only to have her wrestle me to my back and strangle me while some weird, drunken bearded dude knelt down and yelled in my ear “dude 100% is like the greatest jam ever!!”

5) Talk Normal at Hampshire College Tavern  - Amherst, MA

6) Iggy & The Stooges in Rio, Brazil (first Raw Power reunion set with James Williamson.)

7) Okkyung Lee and Carlos Giffoni duo at Glasslands, Brooklyn

Lee Ranaldo: “We’re doing a big archival house clean right now. We’ve got a massive archive of audio and video that’s sitting in our studio in Hoboken. We’ve got somebody in there who’s noting every single thing down and making a massive database, and then we’re going to start digitising it because some of the tapes are 30 years old now.”

(A tip of the hat to TwentyFourBit for pointing this out)

twentyfourbit:

If you’re in the Portland, OR area, you may want to have your credit card ready for this: Jandek, the Houston-based singer/songwriter who released dozens of some of the most unusual records to date without making a public appearance for almost three decades, will be joined onstage by Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore for a one-off gig at the Hollywood Theatre next April.

The show has been organized by Jackpot Records, the indie label behind Jandek’s Portland Thursday, a live album from the same Hollywood Theatre stage, which features Quasi’s Sam Coomes on bass and other guest musicians.

It’s possible the folks at Jackpot will be recording the concert for another live album, but there are no guarantees, so grab tickets here for this “one-time, onstage collaboration.”

(from nearerthemoon)