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All Tomorrow’s Parties Film - Trailer & UK Premiere
June 15, 2009

ATP film new trailer up here. UK Premiere an other screenings info here.

Moshe

THE ETERNAL SONIK TOOTH JAPANESE BOX
May 9, 2009

On June 3rd Hostess Record, Sonic Youth's new Japanese Label, will release "The Eternal - Sonik Tooth Box" which includes:
The Eternal CD (with 2 bonus tracks, lyric translation in JP, liner notes); Bonus live CD (Live at Battery Park); Sonic Death '09 (32p B5 sine zine, artwork by Tomoo Gokita & Sonic Youth, photography by Masayuki Shioda); T shirts (by TOGA NEJICO) and a sticker. More info here.

Moshe

GOODBYE 20TH CENTURY U.S. PAPERBACK
April 24, 2009

David Browne's critically acclaimed Sonic Youth bio, "Goodbye 20th Century," will be out June 1st in a paperback edition. It includes interviews with the band and their family, friends and colleagues, and 64 rare photos. The book which was described as "an expressway to the soul of the influential band" (Vanity Fair), "compulsively readable" (Publishers Weekly), and "a rollicking, epic biography" (Salon) is available for pre order on Amazon.

Moshe

SONIC YOUTH AT NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS 2009
April 15, 2009

Sonic Youth will join the Sun Ra Arkestra, De La Soul an many others in My Bloody Valentine's curated Nightmare Before Christmas. The event will take place at Butlins Holiday Resort in Minehead, England from December 4th - 6th, 2009. info.

Moshe

MORLEY/MY CAT IS AN ALIEN/PONZINI/RANALDO
April 9, 2009

Coming soon:

artist: MICHAEL MORLEY, MY CAT IS AN ALIEN, RAMONA PONZINI, LEE RANALDO
title: Live @ Sensational Fix
label: Starlight Furniture Co. (San Francisco)
distribution: Revolver USA
cat #: *25
release date: Aug/Sept 2009
format: LP ltd. 450
track listing:

side A:

'Live @ Sensational Fix'

M.Morley - laptop
M.Opalio - electric guitar, percussion
R.Opalio - vocals, electric guitar, space toys
R.Ponzini - vocals, seed shaker
L.Ranaldo - electric guitar

recorded June 18th, 2008 at Le Vip in St.Nazaire, France, on the occasion of the opening of "Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix" museum exhibition at LiFE.


side B:

1- 'Blue Ether'
R.Opalio - vocals, alientronics, toy piano

2- 'Gate the Grand Century'
M.Morley - laptop

3- 'Verona, Interzone'
L.Ranaldo - electric guitar
R.Ponzini - little bell

4- 'Passo Galambra'
M.Opalio - classical guitar

5- 'Hi no tori - Firebird'
R.Ponzini - vocals, wind chimes
R.Opalio - toy keyboard
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editing and mastering by MCIAA
'Sensational Lights Trilogy' polaroids shot by Roberto Opalio on stage during the live performance.
Live band collage by MCIAA from a video by curator Roland Groenenboom.

Moshe

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Sonic Youth, initially comprising of guitarist / vocalists Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo, guitarist / bassist / vocalist Kim Gordon and drummer Richard Edson, were formed in New York City in 1981. A product of the No-Wave music scene of the late 1970s, the group had their roots in abrasive, experimental music, with Moore and Ranaldo having previously worked with the experimental composer Glenn Branca. The band were joined in 1985 by drummer Steve Shelley, and have now recorded 14 albums together, as well as many side and solo projects. Their work has been consistently challenging and innovative, and they are widely regarded as one of the most intriguing and influential bands of their time.