Today Bikini Kill released a track from the forthcoming reissue of its demo album Revolution Girl Style Now. “Playground,” one of three songs left off the…
Thurston Moore Wants to Scribble On Your Records
Not only do Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth have shows in town this week, but today Other Music sweetened the deal by announcing that…
Sonic Youth: Where Are They Now?
It’s July 21, 2015: do you know where the members of Sonic Youth are? Alas, there’s still no sign of a “fare thee well” show…
Kim Gordon’s New Show: Fear of Lost Art and Ideas in a Changing City
As of today, a new body of work by Kim Gordon is living at 303 Gallery in Chelsea, a white box like most others on…
Minimalist Master La Monte Young Drones On About His New ‘Dream House’
La Monte Young, the minimalist master whose trailblazing work with droning has influenced everyone from the Velvet Underground to Sonic Youth to Brian Eno, who…
Lee Ranaldo Has an Art Show; Kim and Thurston Have Some Show Shows
If you were looking for an excuse to sport your $100 designer Sonic Youth t-shirt, here are a few of them. You may have missed Lee Ranaldo’s show…
Blonde Redhead Defends Their Decadence at St. Mazie
Since 19-freakin’-93, Blonde Redhead has been conjuring killer music in New York freakin’ City. The trio – Italian twin brothers Amedeo and Simone Pace and…
Lee Ranaldo Is Working On the Scorsese-Jagger HBO Pilot About ’70s NYC
Okay, so that phonebook carving of Hunter S. Thompson wasn’t the only highlight of last night’s Select Fair preview: over at Kingston-based One Mile Gallery’s…
At a 100th Birthday Reading of Sun Ra’s Lost Works, Space Was the Place
William S. Burroughs isn’t the only counterculture deity being feted with a centenial. The late Sun Ra would have been about a month shy of…
Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon Are Playing The Stone (Not Together, Sorry)
The saga of Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon has been back in the news lately (and by “the news,” we mean Pitchfork and…