Though it didn't make Pitchfork's Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s (it was an honorable mention), it seems that Sonic Youth's "Kool Thing" is poised to become the official theme song of fashion's '90s revival. We've heard it at two shows so far this week -- Alex Casertano's and Charlotte Ronson's -- and Read More
Happy Thursday! Pitchfork has breaking details about Sonic Youth's highly anticipated 16th studio album and followup to 2006's Rather Ripped: June 9 release date; title is The Eternal (as in, Sonic Youth has been around for an eternity and they are eternally cool!).
The Eternal will be the first album by the band, Read More
Pitchfork brings us this gem from The New York Times Styles section: Kim Gordon, long-time bass player of Sonic Youth and godmother of all things cool, has started a new fashion line called Mirror/Dash with two of her friends—Melinda Wansbrough and Jeffrey Monteiro. The first piece is a Françoise Hardy-inspired military-style Read More
Barry Hogan, the British music promoter, was at Bleecker Street Records last Thursday afternoon partaking in what seems like an archaic ritual: CD shopping.
"There's too many good records here," he said in his thick English accent (although the actual records, those measuring 12-inches across, were downstairs). He was perusing the "C" section, and picked up Read More
The city's intelligentsia is gearing up for the 2008 Brooklyn Book Festival this Sunday, at which some 150 authors—ranging from Joan Didion and Jimmy Breslin to the Jonathans Lethem and Franzen—will be in attendance. But we'd be lying if we said that we weren't the most excited for the chat that's supposed to go down Read More
Glory be! Ending weeks of fevered speculation, Sonic Youth—a band that virtually defined independent music in the 80s—is returning to the fold after nearly twenty years on major label, DGC/Geffen. According to nearly every music blog in creation, and, of course, the label themselves, the band has signed with Matador Records (certainly beats the Read More
Did you ever really have that much fun at McCarren Park Pool, whose reign as one of New York’s most popular summer show spots will end tomorrow when Sonic Youth brings the curtain down on two years’ worth of weekend concerts at the waterless Williamsburg swimming hole? Sure, it’s hard to complain about free shows Read More
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Since they blew through South by Southwest this spring, Seattle’s Fleet Foxes have steadily climbed indie rock’s crowded ladder. They played the Bowery Ballroom in March and again in July, stormed the Pitchfork Music Festival later that month, jumped across the pond for England's Isle of Wight festival in August, and sold out their Read More
Williamsburgers will weep with sorrow at the end of this month when McCarren Park Pool closes its gates. On Aug. 30, Sonic Youth will play the final show and all the kiddies will have to say good-bye to their Sunday funtime activities. The New York Times wrote an obituary of sorts for the pool, Read More
Anyone who longs for the days when New York seemed like a post-apocalyptic, crime-ridden industrial wasteland is in for a treat tonight. At the Knitting Factory, the obscure yet seminal Manhattan post-punk band Teenage Jesus and the Jerks will reunite for two back-to-back performances. The shows will coincide with an exhibition opening at Read More
"We're putting together this museum show that's utilizing all the artists that we've worked with on different covers and concepts, and that's going Read More
Earlier this summer, Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore Read More
Sonic Youth, Stereolab Fall Short
Sick of wading through 70-minute compact discs with only 40 minutes worth of decent music on them? Old-guard vanguardists Stereolab and Sonic Youth feel your pain. Their new albums, The First of the Microbe Hunters (Elektra) and NYC Ghosts & Flowers (Geffen), each time out at less than 45 minutes, the Read MoreIt's not everyday you run across fun party music made by a couple of French psychologists. But that's Installation Sonore (V2), an album of imaginative, razor-sharp dance tunes done by Jean-Philippe and Patou, two ex-indie rockers based in Montpellier, France.
Jean-Philippe and Patou came up with the name Rinôçérôse–which has expanded on stage at home to Read MoreFiona Apple Blossoms
In 1996, amid talk of girl power and waifdom, a tiny 18-year-oldsinger-songwriter-pianist named Fiona Apple made her debut with an album called Tidal . Although at first taken as a marketing team's capitalization on the Kate Moss moment, Ms. Apple soon revealed herself as a top-drawer popster; hit singles like "Criminal," which gave Read More