We've a real hum-Dinger of a playlist for all your Krautrock fans today, hopefully a Rother you can't refuse. Ahem. As there's a NEU! compilation of covers coming out on May 18 - entitled Brand Neu! we are celebrating all things Neu! with a playlist of their wares.»
The UK premiere of an All Tomorrow's Parties (ATP) documentary has been announced, with the first airing due to take place at the Edinburgh International Film Festival on 24 and 25 June.»
Got any plans next Monday? Yeah, DiS had some too. We were going to get married and then cure cancer. Maybe save some orphans. Screw THAT - instead we'll be loitering outside London's Scala frantically haranguing all and sundry for tickets for the short n»
Let's cut to the chase here: My Bloody Valentine are the curators for ATP's Nightmare Before Christmas festival, in December this year. Sonic Youth, De La Soul and The Horrors are brilliantly on the bill.»
Sonic Youth's sixteenth album The Eternal is due for release on June 9th via Matador. Here are all the details.»
DiS trawls through all the recent music news so you don't have to.»
“Music is our distraction from destruction,” or is it? DiS looks at great music which would never have existed in prosperous times. »
Tracklisting’s in for Sonic Youth’s foray into coffee-table haunts with their Starbucks-released compilation record Hits Are for Squares»
Free Kitten, the ‘super-group’ featuring three queens of noise-rock, have reformed to release their first album in over ten years»
Sonic Youth will begin work on a new studio album soon, with a release date tentatively pencilled in for early 2009.»
The soundtrack to Juno, featuring Sonic Youth, The Moldy Peaches and Cat Power, is getting a UK release to coincide with the film’s arrival in cinemas here next month.»
After scrabbling around in the dark for a while, new, great music finds prime-time again at 9pm this Saturday, as From The Basement launches on Sky Arts.»
News stories for a Saturday night? We thought we’d take advantage of the rift opened up by daylight savings and pen this communiqué from our bedroom, where we’ve been talking to Thurston Moore about books.»
Sonic Youth man, Thurston Moore, is to release a solo album, Trees Outside The Academy, this September.»
Post-rock legends Sonic Youth are to release an album through ubiquitous coffeeshop Starbucks.»
Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon spoke exclusively to DiS today about the band's forthcoming Daydream Nation shows, held as part of All Tomorrow's Parties Don't Look Back series...»
An army of alt-rock titans will converge on Co Laois, Ireland at the end of August for the Electric Picnic festival.»
Today (Friday), Austin is hot. People are gently baking in the sun, parties are being thrown in sub-Summer weather and everyone is happy; even if our dogs are barking.»
Sonic Youth will now play Daydream Nation in its entirety for three nights at the Roundhouse later this Summer.»
Further acts have been confirmed for this year's three-day Primavera Sound festival, held in Barcelona from May 31 'til June 2...»
DiS has been busy this week. Busy beavering away at organising exciting things to do with festivals and tours and records and stuff, stuff that you might just be hearing about very soon. Yes, very soon. So long as the rug’s not pulled out from under our virtual arses...»
Three bands that you might like have announced extra dates for you to go to... »
ATP's successful Don't Look Back series, now in its third year, will play host to Slint, Sonic Youth and The House Of Love in 2007...»
We remembered! Amazing. And we've not even been drinking. Yet...»
Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo has recorded a spoken word guest appearance on The Cribs' third album...»
Welcome, weekend readers! (unless you’re reading this on a Monday. Or a Tuesday. Or… yeah, hi.) Here, DiS is pleased to present a digest, if you will, of the week’s most interesting (?) news stories. Hopefully, assuming we remember to do it, this will be a weekly thing – every Friday evening, a neat little summary of the week’s comings and goings in the world of music...»
Thurston Moore has defended his decision to release Last Days actor Michael Pitt's new record...»
That anger's a gift is a given, but the chances of Rage Against The Machine playing this year's Coachella Valley Music (and Arts) Festival, not so. But they bloody well are, y'know...»
Times! We've got them, for this December's Nightmare Before Christmas three-day fest, arranged as always by the lovely people of ATP. Check these names out, and then see when they're playing...»
Sonic Youth - they're old but still rock, which is like totally crazy! - are to release an album of rare bits 'n' pieces on December 11...»
It's freakin' hot outside, so why the blue-blazin' squad Christ are we talking about December? ATP, d'uh...»
This December's Nightmare Before Christmas ATP festival, held in Minehead rather than Camber for once and curated by Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, is gradually taking shape with a number of new acts added to the bill these past few days...»
All Tomorrow's Parties: The Nightmare Before Christmas moves to Somerset, lands Sonic Youth and The Stooges...»
This year's Lollapalooza line-up has been announced. The festival, which will take place in Chicago's Grant Park on August 4th-6th.»
Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore has told Billboard that the band's forthcoming record, due in June, is influenced by archaic rockers Blue Oyster Cult... »
Sonic Youth have spoken to Billboard about their forthcoming studio album.»
A slew of delcious new music DVDs from Directors Label this September.»
Looking firmly towards the festive period already, record companies have lined up announce a slew of music DVD releases... here are some of said treats.»
Kings of inventive feedback return with album number 19 this June...»
The full line up for ATP (that's All Tomorrow's Parties - but if you didn't know that I guess you're not interested) has been announced.»
Not got a ticket? Tough...»
Indie heaven returns to Camber in March/April with Sonic Youth, Mogwai, Tortoise, Shellac and Malkmus picking the bands...»
Thurston Moore, guitarist and vocalist with Sonic Youth, has started his own online record label offering MP3s and stencils. And it's all free. As Mr Moore says ...'WWW.PROTEST-RECORDS.COM exists for musicians, poets and artists to express LOVE + LIBERTY in the face of greed, sexism, racism, hate-crime »
Sonic Youth have finished their new album and are ready to premier their new material in a practice concert via the medium of webcast rehearsal this weekend. In full streaming video and audio the band will present a webcast as they prepare for their upcoming summer tour. The concert, titled "Rehe»
The Liars, who're yet another noisenik band from Nu Yawk have been confirmed as "special guests" of Sonic Youth on their forthcoming British tour in June. The noise-fests happen on the following days and these lucky (probably sold out already) places:
June 22nd Academy, Manchester
Jun»
Back in the early nineties, there were three bands that changed the way rock was heard. Sonic Youth, Nirvana, and Minneapolis trio Babes in Toyland. The band split in 1998, leaving a fantastic collection of albums, and proving a lasting influence on many of todays un-manufactured girl bands, as diverse as Kittie an»
Three classic Sonic Youth albums are to be re-released by Universal. 'Daydream Nation', 'Goo' and 'Dirty' will be reissued as double CDs with additional material. All of the repackaged albums are to consist of the original tracks re-mastered in their original running order, plus live v»
Sonic Youth have started work on a new album, but Thurston Moore has said the group would rather work on a film.
Moore said that the group have started work on a new record in between scoring music for the French film 'Demonlover'.
Talking about the follow-up to last year's 'NYC »
The lineup for the US All Tomorrow's Parties have been announced.
Following the success of the All Tomorrow's Parties here in the UK, Barry Hogan (who recently left Foundation) decided to try it out in the States. It takes place on the 19th and 20th October at the the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles, Ca»
Sonic Youth are to play a one-off show at the Royal Festival Hall in London on June 16. The performance has been titled 'Goodbye 20th Century', and will lift material from the band's recent album of the same name, which on its release paid tribute to artists such as Yoko Ono and John Cage by covering their songs»
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