Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth and Body/Head on Catherine Breillat and the music with Anne-Katrin Titze and 99 Records founder Ed Bahlman: “It was a real honour of my life to be in one of her films.”
In the first instalment with Kim Gordon on Catherine Breillat, we discuss the songs in Last Summer (L'Été Dernier) - Body/Head’s Tripping (Bill Nace and Kim Gordon), Sonic Youth’s Dirty Boots, and Léo Ferré’s Vingt Ans, and we are joined by music producer and 99 Records founder Ed Bahlman. Kim’s initial encounters with Breillat films are A Real Young Girl (Une Vraie Jeune Fille) and then 36 Fillette. We also touch on Kim’s latest work with French choreographer Dimitri Chamblas, Ed’s copy of the mastered cassette of their second album Bad Moon Rising Sonic Youth dropped off at 99, and a word on Brooks Headley’s Superiority Burger.
In the first instalment with Kim Gordon on Catherine Breillat, we discuss the songs in Last Summer (L'Été Dernier) - Body/Head’s Tripping (Bill Nace and Kim Gordon), Sonic Youth’s Dirty Boots, and Léo Ferré’s Vingt Ans, and we are joined by music producer and 99 Records founder Ed Bahlman. Kim’s initial encounters with Breillat films are A Real Young Girl (Une Vraie Jeune Fille) and then 36 Fillette. We also touch on Kim’s latest work with French choreographer Dimitri Chamblas, Ed’s copy of the mastered cassette of their second album Bad Moon Rising Sonic Youth dropped off at 99, and a word on Brooks Headley’s Superiority Burger.
- 1/19/2024
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Having already proven their bona fides with both 1986’s Evol and 1987’s Sister, Sonic Youth delivered their most cohesive, accessible album to date with their 1988 opus Daydream Nation. Originally inspired by the ferocity of hardcore punk, the cerebral art rock of acts like the Velvet Underground and Public Image Ltd., and the avant-garde compositions of Glenn Branca, the album saw the four New York bohos sweeten their no-wave edge with anthemic songwriting.
Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo’s detuned guitars strum plaintively and hypnotically as Daydream Nation slowly shakes itself awake on “Teen Age Riot.” Bassist-singer Kim Gordon channels the Stooges’s eerie chants on 1969’s “We Will Fall” and even cribs from its lyrics: “Spirit, desire/We will fall,” she mumbles before the song’s dual-guitar riff tears the track apart.
“Teen Age Riot” is an articulation of the alternative nation—which saw Dinosaur Jr.’s lead noisemaker, J Mascis,...
Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo’s detuned guitars strum plaintively and hypnotically as Daydream Nation slowly shakes itself awake on “Teen Age Riot.” Bassist-singer Kim Gordon channels the Stooges’s eerie chants on 1969’s “We Will Fall” and even cribs from its lyrics: “Spirit, desire/We will fall,” she mumbles before the song’s dual-guitar riff tears the track apart.
“Teen Age Riot” is an articulation of the alternative nation—which saw Dinosaur Jr.’s lead noisemaker, J Mascis,...
- 10/17/2023
- by Fred Barrett
- Slant Magazine
Sonic Youth will release a remixed and remastered LP of their final US performance, titled Live in Brooklyn 2011, on August 18th via Silver Current Records and digitally on Goofin’.
The 2xLP, 2xCD, or 2xTape collection follows a 2020 archival release that included the 2011 East River waterfront performance, or “The Last Show” as it came to be known by fans. Though the band subsequently toured South America before confirming their dissolution in November that year, the New York event served as a fitting conclusion with the group’s hometown connections and surprising, career-spanning set. Pre-orders are ongoing.
In a statement, drummer Steve Shelley shared, “For the Williamsburg Waterfront show I wrote out the setlist to present to the band and it was a lot of material we hadn’t played in a while, a lot of deep cuts, so I wasn’t sure if everybody would feel like doing it. After worrying...
The 2xLP, 2xCD, or 2xTape collection follows a 2020 archival release that included the 2011 East River waterfront performance, or “The Last Show” as it came to be known by fans. Though the band subsequently toured South America before confirming their dissolution in November that year, the New York event served as a fitting conclusion with the group’s hometown connections and surprising, career-spanning set. Pre-orders are ongoing.
In a statement, drummer Steve Shelley shared, “For the Williamsburg Waterfront show I wrote out the setlist to present to the band and it was a lot of material we hadn’t played in a while, a lot of deep cuts, so I wasn’t sure if everybody would feel like doing it. After worrying...
- 6/20/2023
- by Bryan Kress
- Consequence - Music
Former Sonic Youth singer-guitarist Thurston Moore will tell his side of how the band came together in his long-promised autobiography, Sonic Life: A Memoir, due out in October.
“Sonic Life tells the story of my childhood and teenage years as I fell in love with music (for the most part unbridled rock & roll) and how it drove me to New York City, where I would co-found Sonic Youth,” he wrote in an Instagram post. “It’s an adventure that would take me around the globe throughout the 1980s, Nineties, and onward,...
“Sonic Life tells the story of my childhood and teenage years as I fell in love with music (for the most part unbridled rock & roll) and how it drove me to New York City, where I would co-found Sonic Youth,” he wrote in an Instagram post. “It’s an adventure that would take me around the globe throughout the 1980s, Nineties, and onward,...
- 5/4/2023
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Yo La Tengo celebrated the fourth night of Hanukkah — and the midpoint of their annual Bowery Ballroom residency marking the Festival of Lights — with an encore entirely dedicated to the Ramones, featuring the punk legends’ longtime drummer Marky Ramone.
The indie rock trio hinted at what was to come Wednesday when they opened their Night Four gig with their instrumental rendition of “Blitzkrieg Bop.” For the encore, Yo La Tengo whipped out five Ramones classics — “Rockaway Beach,” “I Can’t Make It on Time,” “I Wanna Be Sedated,” “Loudmouth” and “Sheena Is a Punk Rocker,...
The indie rock trio hinted at what was to come Wednesday when they opened their Night Four gig with their instrumental rendition of “Blitzkrieg Bop.” For the encore, Yo La Tengo whipped out five Ramones classics — “Rockaway Beach,” “I Can’t Make It on Time,” “I Wanna Be Sedated,” “Loudmouth” and “Sheena Is a Punk Rocker,...
- 12/22/2022
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Angelique Kidjo, Yo La Tengo, Bill Frisell, and Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart are among the artists featuring on a 50th-anniversary musical tribute to beat poet Allen Ginsberg’s The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971.
Sonic Youth bandmates Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo, Andrew Bird, Devendra Banhart, Gavin Friday & Howie B, the Fugs’ Ed Sanders, and more also appear on the album, which boasts musical interpretations of poems from Ginsberg’s 1971 book; some tracks feature the late poet reciting his works accompanied by the new music.
“In...
Sonic Youth bandmates Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo, Andrew Bird, Devendra Banhart, Gavin Friday & Howie B, the Fugs’ Ed Sanders, and more also appear on the album, which boasts musical interpretations of poems from Ginsberg’s 1971 book; some tracks feature the late poet reciting his works accompanied by the new music.
“In...
- 1/29/2021
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo and Spanish musician Raül Refree have shared a performance of “Light Years Out,” recorded earlier this year at the gallery/workspace NeueHouse in Manhattan.
The clip was recorded on February 21st at Ranaldo and Refree’s release party for their collaborative LP, Names of North End Women. The spooky, old library vibe of the NeueHouse provides a fitting backdrop for their extended rendition of “Light Years Out.”
The performance opens with Ranaldo reciting a spoken-word piece while drawing strange feedback from a tape deck, while...
The clip was recorded on February 21st at Ranaldo and Refree’s release party for their collaborative LP, Names of North End Women. The spooky, old library vibe of the NeueHouse provides a fitting backdrop for their extended rendition of “Light Years Out.”
The performance opens with Ranaldo reciting a spoken-word piece while drawing strange feedback from a tape deck, while...
- 7/1/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Although Sonic Youth has been largely dormant since 2011, the band has begun digging into its vaults, and its latest excavation — Blastic Scene, a 1993 live tape from Lisbon — dropped Monday on Bandcamp.
Archival releases have been few and far between since the band’s dissolution in light of Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore’s breakup. But in March, a dozen live shows from various points in the Sonic Youth saga suddenly went up on Bandcamp. The band had been making some of its live content available on another site, but drummer Steve Shelley,...
Archival releases have been few and far between since the band’s dissolution in light of Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore’s breakup. But in March, a dozen live shows from various points in the Sonic Youth saga suddenly went up on Bandcamp. The band had been making some of its live content available on another site, but drummer Steve Shelley,...
- 5/4/2020
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
Alice Bag, Fugazi’s Guy Picciotto, Speedy Ortiz, Diiv, Geoff Rickly of Thursday, and Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo are among the hundreds of musicians to sign a new letter to Congress demanding more aid for musicians struggling during the Covid-19 crisis.
The organization behind the letter is the newly launched labor group, Union of Musicians and Allied Workers (Umaw), which was formed by a committee of musicians in response to the struggles brought on by the pandemic. While Covid-19 will be one of the union’s top priorities at the moment,...
The organization behind the letter is the newly launched labor group, Union of Musicians and Allied Workers (Umaw), which was formed by a committee of musicians in response to the struggles brought on by the pandemic. While Covid-19 will be one of the union’s top priorities at the moment,...
- 5/4/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
From anniversary re-creations by the band to its inclusion in the Library of Congress’ National Registry, Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation has been rightly defined as one of the landmarks of Eighties indie rock, and possibly its last galvanizing moment before so much of that scene collapsed. The band still played a few of the album’s songs onstage right up until its 2011 breakup, which followed the separation of founding couple Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore. But what we’ve never heard, outside of bootlegs, is the sound of Sonic...
- 2/27/2020
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
In his latest podcast/interview, host and screenwriter Stuart Wright talks with director Stuart Swezey about his documentary Desolation Center.
Desolation Center is the previously untold story of a series of early 80s guerrilla music and art performance happenings in Southern California that are recognized to have inspired Burning Man, Lollapalooza and Coachella, collective experiences that have become key elements of popular culture in the 21st century. The feature documentary splices interviews and rare performance footage of Sonic Youth, Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Swans, Redd Kross, Einstürzende Neubauten, Survival Research Laboratories, Savage Republic and more, documenting a time when pushing the boundaries of music, art, and performance felt almost like an unspoken obligation.
NYC premiere is IFC Center 26 February 2020 – inc Q&a w/ Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo & Steve Shelley and dir. Stuart Swezey! Tickets at www.ifccenter.com/films/desolation-center/
UK people can see it via a Doc’N’Roll...
Desolation Center is the previously untold story of a series of early 80s guerrilla music and art performance happenings in Southern California that are recognized to have inspired Burning Man, Lollapalooza and Coachella, collective experiences that have become key elements of popular culture in the 21st century. The feature documentary splices interviews and rare performance footage of Sonic Youth, Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Swans, Redd Kross, Einstürzende Neubauten, Survival Research Laboratories, Savage Republic and more, documenting a time when pushing the boundaries of music, art, and performance felt almost like an unspoken obligation.
NYC premiere is IFC Center 26 February 2020 – inc Q&a w/ Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo & Steve Shelley and dir. Stuart Swezey! Tickets at www.ifccenter.com/films/desolation-center/
UK people can see it via a Doc’N’Roll...
- 2/18/2020
- by Stuart Wright
- Nerdly
Exclusive: Passion River Films has picked up worldwide digital rights to the desert rock documentary Desolation Center and is planning to launch it later this year.
The film, which has screened at a number of film festivals around the world including Cph: Dox, Indie Lisboa and Sheffield Doc Fest, tells the story of a series of gigs in Southern California that paved the way for corporate festivals such as Burning Man, Lollapalooza and Coachella.
Desolation Center, directed by Stuart Swezey, is the untold story of a series Reagan-era guerrilla desert happenings now that includes performances by bands including Sonic Youth, Minutemen, Meat Puppets and Einstürzende Neubauten. It tells the true story of how the risky, and at times even reckless, actions of a few outsiders can unintentionally lead to seismic cultural shifts. Swezey, the creator and principal organizer of these events, offers up never-before-seen archival video, live audio recordings, and...
The film, which has screened at a number of film festivals around the world including Cph: Dox, Indie Lisboa and Sheffield Doc Fest, tells the story of a series of gigs in Southern California that paved the way for corporate festivals such as Burning Man, Lollapalooza and Coachella.
Desolation Center, directed by Stuart Swezey, is the untold story of a series Reagan-era guerrilla desert happenings now that includes performances by bands including Sonic Youth, Minutemen, Meat Puppets and Einstürzende Neubauten. It tells the true story of how the risky, and at times even reckless, actions of a few outsiders can unintentionally lead to seismic cultural shifts. Swezey, the creator and principal organizer of these events, offers up never-before-seen archival video, live audio recordings, and...
- 2/13/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Lee Ranaldo and Rosalía collaborator Raül Refree are extremely talented guitarists, but for their new song “Light Years Out,” they turned to an old cassette of Ranaldo throwing chairs against the wall for instrumentation instead.
“We found some tapes at the studio in New York that Lee recorded many years ago,” Refree tells Rolling Stone. Ranaldo says he created them nearly 20 years ago for a tribute album to Japanese noise band Hanatarash on a cassette player made by the Library of Congress for blind people. “With this cassette and some of the others we found,...
“We found some tapes at the studio in New York that Lee recorded many years ago,” Refree tells Rolling Stone. Ranaldo says he created them nearly 20 years ago for a tribute album to Japanese noise band Hanatarash on a cassette player made by the Library of Congress for blind people. “With this cassette and some of the others we found,...
- 1/13/2020
- by Brenna Ehrlich
- Rollingstone.com
Lee Ranaldo had an epiphany about his new album while wandering through a neighborhood in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Each street on his journey was named after a woman — just their first names — and as he walked by Lydia, Kate, Dagmar, Harriett and Juno, Ranaldo wrote those names down. He was fascinated by the fact that the names seemed to come from nowhere, with no explanation as to why each street bore that title.
“Somehow it became an impetus for the lyrics in terms of the people that drift in and out of one’s life,...
“Somehow it became an impetus for the lyrics in terms of the people that drift in and out of one’s life,...
- 11/13/2019
- by Brenna Ehrlich
- Rollingstone.com
You know this sadly familiar scenario: Band with three distinctive singers and writers — and a steady, dependable drummer who seems to get along with them all — collapses, and what follows are individual projects with plenty of sterling moments instead of a group record that will never be. The Beatles? Sure, but the same now goes for Sonic Youth. In the aftermath of the group’s collapse following Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore’s startling breakup, we’ve had to make do with solo albums that, at least, played up their individual strengths.
- 10/15/2019
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
It’s been close to a decade since Sonic Youth played their last concert in Brazil in the fall of 2011, and the group has been slowly releasing live recordings and outtakes from their archives ever since. The latest is a re-release of a concert they played just ahead of their final album, The Eternal. But even though Battery Park, NYC: July 4, 2008 previously came out on vinyl in 2009 as a perk to get people to preorder The Eternal, this version marks the first time it will be available on streaming services...
- 5/23/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Chuck Smith at The Bowery Hotel on Barbara Rubin: "I think Walt Disney fascinated her all the time and fairy tales." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Through interviews with Jonas Mekas, Amy Taubin, Gordon Ball, Richard Foreman, J Hoberman, Ara Osterweil, Rosebud Feliu-Pettet, Debra Feiner Coddington, and illustrated by film clips, and photographs, Chuck Smith is in search of answering questions such as, who is Barbara Rubin and why haven't you heard about her?
Chuck Smith on Barbara Rubin friend Amy Taubin, seen here with Richard Gere and Oren Moverman: "She's in Michael Snow's Wavelength, the legendary experimental film." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Barbara Rubin And The Exploding NY Underground, with an original score by Lee Ranaldo, resurrects the filmmaker and instigator to take her place as a vital interconnected thread for the likes of Andy Warhol, the Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Federico Fellini, Lenny Bruce, and many others.
Through interviews with Jonas Mekas, Amy Taubin, Gordon Ball, Richard Foreman, J Hoberman, Ara Osterweil, Rosebud Feliu-Pettet, Debra Feiner Coddington, and illustrated by film clips, and photographs, Chuck Smith is in search of answering questions such as, who is Barbara Rubin and why haven't you heard about her?
Chuck Smith on Barbara Rubin friend Amy Taubin, seen here with Richard Gere and Oren Moverman: "She's in Michael Snow's Wavelength, the legendary experimental film." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Barbara Rubin And The Exploding NY Underground, with an original score by Lee Ranaldo, resurrects the filmmaker and instigator to take her place as a vital interconnected thread for the likes of Andy Warhol, the Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Federico Fellini, Lenny Bruce, and many others.
- 5/19/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Rock doc distributor Monoduo Films has picked up the international rights to guerrilla desert doc Desolation Center.
You can watch the first trailer for the film, which tells the story of a series of gigs in southern California that paved the way for corporate festivals such as Burning Man, Lollapalooza and Coachella, above.
Berlin-based Monoduo Films, which is run by Ben Bassauer, has previously repped films including Milford Graves Full Mantis, which was co-directed by Neil Young, A Band Called Death and Lamb of God doc As The Palaces Burn. It has taken the worldwide rights ahead of the films U.S. premiere at the Slamdance Festival. The film will debut at the Treasure Mountain Inn Ballroom on 25 January.
Desolation Center is the untold story of a series Reagan-era guerrilla desert happenings now that includes performances by bands including Sonic Youth, Minutemen, Meat Puppets and Einstürzende Neubauten. It tells the...
You can watch the first trailer for the film, which tells the story of a series of gigs in southern California that paved the way for corporate festivals such as Burning Man, Lollapalooza and Coachella, above.
Berlin-based Monoduo Films, which is run by Ben Bassauer, has previously repped films including Milford Graves Full Mantis, which was co-directed by Neil Young, A Band Called Death and Lamb of God doc As The Palaces Burn. It has taken the worldwide rights ahead of the films U.S. premiere at the Slamdance Festival. The film will debut at the Treasure Mountain Inn Ballroom on 25 January.
Desolation Center is the untold story of a series Reagan-era guerrilla desert happenings now that includes performances by bands including Sonic Youth, Minutemen, Meat Puppets and Einstürzende Neubauten. It tells the...
- 1/15/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
In the spring of 2003, Steve Gunn spent two months drawing lines on a wall in Beacon, New York. He was in his twenties at the time, not long out of college and still years away from his current life as a highly respected singer-guitarist. The lines were part of a long-term installation by conceptual pioneer Sol LeWitt at Dia:Beacon, the airy temple of modern art that would open later that year in a former Nabisco factory overlooking the Hudson River.
“It was an amazing time,” Gunn says on a recent Saturday afternoon at Dia:Beacon,...
“It was an amazing time,” Gunn says on a recent Saturday afternoon at Dia:Beacon,...
- 1/14/2019
- by Simon Vozick-Levinson
- Rollingstone.com
Sonic Youth are selling an array of guitars, records and other memorabilia to mark the 30th anniversary of their seminal 1988 record, Daydream Nation. The gear sale starts October 30th on Reverb, while the band’s records and test pressings are available today, October 24th, on Reverb LP.
Sonic Youth are offering over 200 pieces of gear used on tour and in the studio between 1988 and 2011. The group’s shop will also feature screen-printed show posters, rare photographs, memorabilia and personal relics.
Along with all the gear and memorabilia, Sonic Youth are also selling over 300 records.
Sonic Youth are offering over 200 pieces of gear used on tour and in the studio between 1988 and 2011. The group’s shop will also feature screen-printed show posters, rare photographs, memorabilia and personal relics.
Along with all the gear and memorabilia, Sonic Youth are also selling over 300 records.
- 10/24/2018
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the National, TV on the Radio and more have created custom Tidal playlists of their favorite Velvet Underground songs for The Velvet Underground Experience, a multimedia exhibition on the band coming to New York that has officially partnered with Tidal.
The music that Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison and Moe Tucker made together, starting with their classic 1967 debut, The Velvet Underground & Nico, has been a crucial influence on generations of rock & roll dreamers and art-world rebels. Brian Eno famously said that...
The music that Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison and Moe Tucker made together, starting with their classic 1967 debut, The Velvet Underground & Nico, has been a crucial influence on generations of rock & roll dreamers and art-world rebels. Brian Eno famously said that...
- 10/4/2018
- by Simon Vozick-Levinson
- Rollingstone.com
Chicago – Kim Gordon was part of a rock revolution in the 1980s and ‘90s, as part of the sound called Sonic Youth. She has written a memoir about those days, “Girl in a Band,” and promoted that book through an appearance sponsored by the Chicago Humanities Festival on February 26th, 2015, at the historic Music Box Theatre in Chicago.
Gordon grew up in Los Angeles, and moved to New York City in the late 1970s to pursue an art career. She was fascinated by the punk and new wave movement in the city, and formed her first band, through which she met Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore. In 1981, the trio formed Sonic Youth. Throughout the 1980s and ‘90s, the band’s sound was influential in the era, with albums like “Evol” and “Sister.” Over the years, Kim Gordon has participated in other musical projects, and produced the album “Pretty on the...
Gordon grew up in Los Angeles, and moved to New York City in the late 1970s to pursue an art career. She was fascinated by the punk and new wave movement in the city, and formed her first band, through which she met Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore. In 1981, the trio formed Sonic Youth. Throughout the 1980s and ‘90s, the band’s sound was influential in the era, with albums like “Evol” and “Sister.” Over the years, Kim Gordon has participated in other musical projects, and produced the album “Pretty on the...
- 3/2/2015
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
My alienation from current pop is almost complete; the only 2013 Top 40 material I enjoyed enough to play repeatedly was Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, from an album released in 2012. So I am officially a cranky old fart. But there are more and more of us, and maybe fellow COFs will find this list useful. By the way, crossing that border of alienation made me think more than ever that saying my lists are of the "best" albums is nearly absurd, hence the new headline.
1. Wire: Change Becomes Us (Pink Flag)
This is my favorite Wire of this century thanks to more emphasis on Colin Newman's brooding. When allied to their chugging motorik beats, it's irresistible to me. There are still some uptempo burners that recall their beginnings in punk, and some more whimsical though still musically solid songs, but it's Newman's dark musings that made me play this repeatedly.
2. Kitchens of...
1. Wire: Change Becomes Us (Pink Flag)
This is my favorite Wire of this century thanks to more emphasis on Colin Newman's brooding. When allied to their chugging motorik beats, it's irresistible to me. There are still some uptempo burners that recall their beginnings in punk, and some more whimsical though still musically solid songs, but it's Newman's dark musings that made me play this repeatedly.
2. Kitchens of...
- 1/1/2014
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Indie rockers Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon shocked Sonic Youth fans everywhere when they split in October 2011 after 27 years of marriage. Now, Gordon is opening up about the reason the former spouses -- and bandmates -- called it quits.
In the latest issue of Elle, Gordon says her marriage "ended in a kind of normal way -- midlife crisis, starstruck woman." The article continues:
Some years ago, a woman Gordon declines to name became a part of the Sonic Youth world, first as the girlfriend of an erstwhile band member and later as a partner on a literary project with Moore. Eventually, Gordon discovered a text message and confronted him about having an affair. They went to counseling, but he kept seeing the other woman. "We never got to the point where we could just get rid of her so I could decide what I wanted to do," Gordon says.
In the latest issue of Elle, Gordon says her marriage "ended in a kind of normal way -- midlife crisis, starstruck woman." The article continues:
Some years ago, a woman Gordon declines to name became a part of the Sonic Youth world, first as the girlfriend of an erstwhile band member and later as a partner on a literary project with Moore. Eventually, Gordon discovered a text message and confronted him about having an affair. They went to counseling, but he kept seeing the other woman. "We never got to the point where we could just get rid of her so I could decide what I wanted to do," Gordon says.
- 4/25/2013
- by Ashley Reich
- Huffington Post
December is a month that increasingly sees few releases of new albums, so the closer this list gets to the present day, the fewer albums of importance there are to discuss, and most of those are hip-hop albums.
1967
Traffic: Mr. Fantasy Aka Heaven Is in Your Mind (Island)
Shortly after Steve Winwood quit the Spencer Davis Group (of which he was the lead singer and organist), he formed Traffic with some guys he'd jammed with at a club in Birmingham: guitarist/vocalist Dave Mason, saxophonist/flutist Chris Wood, and drummer/lyricist Jim Capaldi. After a couple of hit singles, they convened at a country cottage and put together the debut album by Traffic, titled Mr. Fantasy in their native country. By the time it was released, Mason had already quit.
The English and American editions were rather different. Not only did the U.S. LP (on United Artists) have...
1967
Traffic: Mr. Fantasy Aka Heaven Is in Your Mind (Island)
Shortly after Steve Winwood quit the Spencer Davis Group (of which he was the lead singer and organist), he formed Traffic with some guys he'd jammed with at a club in Birmingham: guitarist/vocalist Dave Mason, saxophonist/flutist Chris Wood, and drummer/lyricist Jim Capaldi. After a couple of hit singles, they convened at a country cottage and put together the debut album by Traffic, titled Mr. Fantasy in their native country. By the time it was released, Mason had already quit.
The English and American editions were rather different. Not only did the U.S. LP (on United Artists) have...
- 12/19/2012
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Jeff Mangum, Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo, and Fugazi’s Guy Picciotto will perform at an upcoming Occupy Wall Street charity event. Other performers include Janeane Garofalo, TV On The Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe, and Daily Show co-creator Lizz Winstead. The event—which will also stream as a web-based telethon—takes place Nov. 15 at New York’s Le Poisson Rouge, and aims to raise $50,000 for Strike Debt, an Ows fringe organization that purchases debt for the purpose of eliminating it. As the group’s website says, “We buy debt for pennies on the dollar, but instead of ...
- 10/24/2012
- avclub.com
As is usually the case with such endeavors, “Just Tell Me You Love Me,” a tribute to Fleetwood Mac, is a total mixed bag. Out today, it’s just the sort of album for which iTunes was invented. Fans of Antony (of Antony & The Johnsons) poignant, faithful rendition of the gentle, lovely “Landslide” may not want the fuzzy version of instrumental “Albatross,” delivered more than capably by Lee Ranaldo Band featuring J Mascis. As a whole, the 17-song tribute breaks down into two specific camps: fans of the ubiquitous hits from “Fleetwood Mac” and “Rumours” will gravitate toward the songs they...
- 8/14/2012
- Hitfix
Adding no further insight into whether Sonic Youth may, in fact, be no more, guitarist Lee Ranaldo told BBC 5 Radio that the group is on “longterm hold” following Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon’s separation last fall. But the band isn’t going gently into that good night: It has a whole slate of tour movies, live audio, demos, and reissues planned, including one for 1987's Sister and more for some of the group’s film scores. Ranaldo told BBC 5 that it’s “completely impossible” to say whether the group will ever get back together, but if ...
- 7/19/2012
- avclub.com
Mgmt and Lykke Li are among the artists who will feature on an upcoming Fleetwood Mac tribute album. Best Coast, The Kills, Antony Hegarty from Antony and the Johnsons and Zz Top's Billy Gibbons have also lent their talents to the project. The album is produced by Randall Poster, who recently worked on the Buddy Holly tribute project Rave On. Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo and Dinosaur Jr's J Mascis have also collaborated for a cover of 'Albatross'. The New Pornographers and Best Coast have both covered Fleetwood Mac in the past. The currently untitled album will be released in the Us on September 14. A UK release date has yet to be confirmed. The full tracklisting is as follows: (more)...
- 6/18/2012
- by By Tom Eames
- Digital Spy
On Between the Times and the Tides, Lee Ranaldo's latest solo album (now available!), the Sonic Youth guitarist necessarily spends most of his time playing said instrument (sometimes with old friends). In his new video for "Angles," which Vulture is premiering below, Ranaldo spends a lot of time swinging guitars, while a pal roams around the streets of New York. Explains Leah Singer, the director (and Ranaldo's wife): "The swinging guitar pays homage to Lee's experimental work and Z Behl, the girl, has been a friend since she was a child. Josh and Brett from Red Bucket Films lend a hand. They worked with our kids on the feature film Daddy Longlegs. So it was a bit of a family affair." Bonus fun fact: Part of the video was filmed by attaching a camera to helium balloons. Check out "Angles" below.
- 3/28/2012
- by Amanda Dobbins
- Vulture
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Think of Sonic Youth. When most, and I imagine you’re no different, think of Sonic Youth they think of noise rock’s power couple. Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon, would be the most often name checked and revered persons that come to mind, indie icons as they are. Sonic Youth’s own Lennon and McCartney, with more sexual tension. Actually, sexual release and fulfilment I’d speculate given that they got married and had a daughter. Which is a darn sight more than Lennon and McCartney managed with their working relationship. If only though.
Anyhow, yes, it’s alternative’s own Mr and Mrs Right (though now in line for a divorce, as any review of this album seems adverse to not mentioning or anything in relation to Sonic Youth, I’m no different it seems, whatever) or Lennon/McCartney that come to mind when musing on Sonic Youth,...
Think of Sonic Youth. When most, and I imagine you’re no different, think of Sonic Youth they think of noise rock’s power couple. Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon, would be the most often name checked and revered persons that come to mind, indie icons as they are. Sonic Youth’s own Lennon and McCartney, with more sexual tension. Actually, sexual release and fulfilment I’d speculate given that they got married and had a daughter. Which is a darn sight more than Lennon and McCartney managed with their working relationship. If only though.
Anyhow, yes, it’s alternative’s own Mr and Mrs Right (though now in line for a divorce, as any review of this album seems adverse to not mentioning or anything in relation to Sonic Youth, I’m no different it seems, whatever) or Lennon/McCartney that come to mind when musing on Sonic Youth,...
- 3/24/2012
- by Morgan Roberts
- Obsessed with Film
Laura Marling and The Rapture have been added to the bill of this year's Primavera Sound festival. Organisers have announced a host of new names for the 2012 event on its official Twitter feed and website. Other acts playing the festival include Saint Etienne, Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo, Erol Alkan, Sbtrkt, Baxter Drury, Shellac, Melvins, Yo La Tengo, The Wedding Present, The Pop Group, Napalm Death, Kings of Convenience, Richard Hawley, Beirut, Death Cab For Cutie and Rufus (more)...
- 1/30/2012
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo has suggested that the group will no longer record new music or play live. The guitarist told Rolling Stone that the end of the band seems to have happened organically. Sonic Youth's frontpeople Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore separated last month after 27 years of marriage. Ranaldo said: "I'm feeling optimistic about the future no matter what happens at this point. I mean, every band runs its course. We've been together way longer than any of us ever imagined would happen and it's been for the most part an incredibly pleasurable ride. "There's still a lot of stuff we're going to continue to do. There's tons and tons of archival projects and things like that that are still going on, so there are so many ways in which we are tied to each other for the future both musically (more)...
- 11/29/2011
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
Many longtime fans were shocked earlier this month when iconic indie rock couple Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon split up. Married for over 25 years, with both acting as founding members of the legendary NY noise rock outfit Sonic Youth for 30 years, the duo seemed to be a beacon of incorruptible domestic bliss in the face of the thirty-second celebrity marriages seemingly preferred by the Kardashians of the world. And now, with the future of the band uncertain, Moore and fellow Sy guitarist Lee Ranaldo have both made some solo plans. Moore has just announced an extensive tour in support of...
- 11/15/2011
- by Dave Lewis
- Hitfix
The best of your comments on the latest films and music
We used to have rules about T-shirts," thisperson reminisced. "You weren't 'allowed' to wear a shirt of a band you knew nothing about or a shirt with tour dates on if you didn't go to any of the shows displayed on it. If the shirt had an album sleeve on it, you had to own the album to wear the shirt. Simple, ridiculous and true, I'm afraid."
Thisperson's nostalgia was prompted by Jude Rogers's article about band T-shirts in last week's F&M. Lots of people were equally moved to dig about their cupboards – figurative or literal – and see what tattered, logo-ridden rags emerged. One thing that evidently caused particular outrage was people wearing rock band T-shirts just because – wait for it – they like the shirt. "I stumbled out of a pub the other week and saw a young...
We used to have rules about T-shirts," thisperson reminisced. "You weren't 'allowed' to wear a shirt of a band you knew nothing about or a shirt with tour dates on if you didn't go to any of the shows displayed on it. If the shirt had an album sleeve on it, you had to own the album to wear the shirt. Simple, ridiculous and true, I'm afraid."
Thisperson's nostalgia was prompted by Jude Rogers's article about band T-shirts in last week's F&M. Lots of people were equally moved to dig about their cupboards – figurative or literal – and see what tattered, logo-ridden rags emerged. One thing that evidently caused particular outrage was people wearing rock band T-shirts just because – wait for it – they like the shirt. "I stumbled out of a pub the other week and saw a young...
- 10/20/2011
- by Michael Hann
- The Guardian - Film News
Everett Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Steve Shelley, Lee Ranaldo, 1988.
First R.E.M. breaks up, and now this.
Indie rock godparents Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon, longtime bandmates in the group Sonic Youth, have announced that they’re splitting up after 27 years of marriage.
The couple confirmed that they are no longer a couple via a statement issued by their label, Matador Records, stating: “Musicians Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, married in 1984, are announcing they have separated. Sonic Youth, with both Kim and Thurston involved,...
First R.E.M. breaks up, and now this.
Indie rock godparents Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon, longtime bandmates in the group Sonic Youth, have announced that they’re splitting up after 27 years of marriage.
The couple confirmed that they are no longer a couple via a statement issued by their label, Matador Records, stating: “Musicians Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, married in 1984, are announcing they have separated. Sonic Youth, with both Kim and Thurston involved,...
- 10/15/2011
- by WSJ Staff
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
On Oct. 21, 1974, Californian Clifford Travis Bean filed a U.S. patent with the intention of making a guitar from "extruded aluminum." His goal, read the patent, was to create an instrument that resulted in "stable and versatile tones." Nearly four decades later, it's safe to say that Bean, who died last Friday at the age of 63, was successful in his stated aims.
In the five years following his filed patent, Bean produced some 3,600 instruments that are not only by and large still in use today but also still influencing new generations of guitar makers and players. His heavy, unmistakable aluminum-necked guitars have an unwavering reputation for tone, sustain and musical flexibility. Though they're most popular now at the intersection of heavy metal and indie rock, they've been used over the years by The Rolling Stones, The Grateful Dead, Thin Lizzy and jazz guitarist Stanley Jordan.
Earlier this week, I asked one longtime Bean adherent,...
In the five years following his filed patent, Bean produced some 3,600 instruments that are not only by and large still in use today but also still influencing new generations of guitar makers and players. His heavy, unmistakable aluminum-necked guitars have an unwavering reputation for tone, sustain and musical flexibility. Though they're most popular now at the intersection of heavy metal and indie rock, they've been used over the years by The Rolling Stones, The Grateful Dead, Thin Lizzy and jazz guitarist Stanley Jordan.
Earlier this week, I asked one longtime Bean adherent,...
- 7/13/2011
- by Grayson Currin
- ifc.com
When we watch movies, it's always filtered through our own experiences. I never had pets growing up, so violence against animals never bothers me. But for some folks, it's a deal breaker. I like depressing relationship "comedies" like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Lars and the Real Girl and Blue Valentine, but for folks who like sunshine and rainbows, it's a dreary experience. We all watch movies differently, based on how we've lived our lives, and so our reactions are different. But even more so than that, it's how we watch the movies. A comedy watched in a theater full of an appreciative audience might be funnier than when we watch it alone at home during the week. The first film you see with your father or mother in a theater is going to resonate much differently than if you are watching it with a group of friends,...
- 2/25/2011
- by Brian Prisco
Sonic Youth cleaned their closets and dug through hidden, long forgotten, boxes to put together this mix tape for you today. You can feel the weight just looking at it. It's got a couple gems from 1988, demos from "Daydream Nation," some "unknown" licky guitar pieces marked only "1988 Lee demo" (noise guitar hero Lee Ranaldo) and as Pitchfork points out, "the acoustic version of 'Star Power' that they played on the 2009 episode of "Gossip Girl" where Rufus and Lily got married."
Also featured on this nostalgically teasing cassette stream are a couple songs from the French murder mystery,"Simon Werner A Disparu" (Us title "Lights Out") about a group of highschoolers in the suburbs of Paris caught up in the disappearance of a classmate -- with original music by Sonic Youth. The film's soundtrack will be released Jan. 25th as a digital download via Midheaven.com, and Feb. 15th on CD,...
Also featured on this nostalgically teasing cassette stream are a couple songs from the French murder mystery,"Simon Werner A Disparu" (Us title "Lights Out") about a group of highschoolers in the suburbs of Paris caught up in the disappearance of a classmate -- with original music by Sonic Youth. The film's soundtrack will be released Jan. 25th as a digital download via Midheaven.com, and Feb. 15th on CD,...
- 1/21/2011
- by Brandon Kim
- ifc.com
Dec. 25
Emmet Otter: 4:00 p.m.
The Christmas Martian: 8:00 p.m.
The Silent Movie Theater
611 N Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Hosted by: The Cinefamily
It’s two times the oddball holiday fun on Christmas Day in Los Angeles, thanks to two spectacular programs hosted by the Cinefamily. Just to be clear, these are two separate programs that require two separate ticket purchases. But, oh what fun you and the family will have!
First up, at 4:00 p.m., for children and the child-like, it’s a screening of the beloved Muppet holiday treat Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas. An adaptation of the children’s book by Russell and Lillian Hoban, this old-fashioned Christmas tale originally aired on HBO in 1977.
This was one of Jim Henson’s most elaborately-produced Muppet productions, featuring the typically hand-controlled-from-underneath puppets, marionettes, and even radio controlled critters — all on large, extremely detailed sets.
Emmet Otter: 4:00 p.m.
The Christmas Martian: 8:00 p.m.
The Silent Movie Theater
611 N Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Hosted by: The Cinefamily
It’s two times the oddball holiday fun on Christmas Day in Los Angeles, thanks to two spectacular programs hosted by the Cinefamily. Just to be clear, these are two separate programs that require two separate ticket purchases. But, oh what fun you and the family will have!
First up, at 4:00 p.m., for children and the child-like, it’s a screening of the beloved Muppet holiday treat Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas. An adaptation of the children’s book by Russell and Lillian Hoban, this old-fashioned Christmas tale originally aired on HBO in 1977.
This was one of Jim Henson’s most elaborately-produced Muppet productions, featuring the typically hand-controlled-from-underneath puppets, marionettes, and even radio controlled critters — all on large, extremely detailed sets.
- 12/21/2010
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
Daddy Longlegs
Directed by: Benny Safdie and Josh Safdie
Cast: Ronald Bronstein, Sage Ranaldo, Frey Ranaldo
Running Time: 1 hr 40
Rating: R
Release Date: July 2, 2010
Plot: Lenny (Bronstein) gets his kids (the Ranaldo brothers) for two weeks and proceeds to be a loving, but questionable, parent.
Who’S It For? Fans of independent films, like really independent in the vein of Cassavetes.
Expectations: I knew nothing about this film so I was just hoping for something good.
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Ronald Bronstein as Lenny: A first time actor, he does a great job as a Dad who loves his kids despite not being responsible enough to take care of them. It’s a pretty intense performance, Bronstein managed to break my heart despite the fact that you don’t really want him with the kids. He’s constantly putting them in dangerous situations, whether going to the grocery store alone or...
Directed by: Benny Safdie and Josh Safdie
Cast: Ronald Bronstein, Sage Ranaldo, Frey Ranaldo
Running Time: 1 hr 40
Rating: R
Release Date: July 2, 2010
Plot: Lenny (Bronstein) gets his kids (the Ranaldo brothers) for two weeks and proceeds to be a loving, but questionable, parent.
Who’S It For? Fans of independent films, like really independent in the vein of Cassavetes.
Expectations: I knew nothing about this film so I was just hoping for something good.
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Ronald Bronstein as Lenny: A first time actor, he does a great job as a Dad who loves his kids despite not being responsible enough to take care of them. It’s a pretty intense performance, Bronstein managed to break my heart despite the fact that you don’t really want him with the kids. He’s constantly putting them in dangerous situations, whether going to the grocery store alone or...
- 7/2/2010
- by Megan Lehar
- The Scorecard Review
Hollywoodnews.com: You have to admire the decisions made by Oscilloscope Laboratories, the moderate-sized production company guided by Beastie Boy Adam Yauch.
The company just announced plans to release a documentary about famed Beat writer William S. Burroughs entitled “A Man Within.” The picture, directed by Yony Leyser, showcases a number of legendary music icons like Iggy Pop, Patti Smith and Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo.
“Within” joins a stable of creatively challenging titles in the Oscilloscope library. Yauch and his team have taken chances on non-mainstream material and connected with features like “Wendy & Lucy” with Michelle Williams and documentaries like “Flow,” about our planet’s diminished water supply.
Yauch’s production company knows how to pick projects. It’s also learning how to get them in front of the right audience. “A Man Within” currently is playing festivals. Indiewire.com says it will have a limited...
The company just announced plans to release a documentary about famed Beat writer William S. Burroughs entitled “A Man Within.” The picture, directed by Yony Leyser, showcases a number of legendary music icons like Iggy Pop, Patti Smith and Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo.
“Within” joins a stable of creatively challenging titles in the Oscilloscope library. Yauch and his team have taken chances on non-mainstream material and connected with features like “Wendy & Lucy” with Michelle Williams and documentaries like “Flow,” about our planet’s diminished water supply.
Yauch’s production company knows how to pick projects. It’s also learning how to get them in front of the right audience. “A Man Within” currently is playing festivals. Indiewire.com says it will have a limited...
- 6/3/2010
- by Sean O'Connell
- Hollywoodnews.com
June 6
7:30 p.m.
Egyptian Theater
6712 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA
Hosted by: L.A. Filmforum
It’s fantastic that Criterion has put out a second volume of films by legendary underground filmmaker Stan Brakage and have released both of their Brakhage collections in a single Blu-ray package. These releases mean a much wider audience will be introduced to the work of one of the most unique, daring and provocative filmmakers in American history.
However, Brakhage’s films have always been meant to be seen in their original form: On film. So, in conjunction with the Criterion releases, curator Mark Toscano has chosen a small selection of films that appear on By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume Two and will be screening them in their original 16mm format. Film prints are from the Academy Film Archive and Canyon Cinema; and Toscano will appear in person to discuss Brakhage’s work.
7:30 p.m.
Egyptian Theater
6712 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA
Hosted by: L.A. Filmforum
It’s fantastic that Criterion has put out a second volume of films by legendary underground filmmaker Stan Brakage and have released both of their Brakhage collections in a single Blu-ray package. These releases mean a much wider audience will be introduced to the work of one of the most unique, daring and provocative filmmakers in American history.
However, Brakhage’s films have always been meant to be seen in their original form: On film. So, in conjunction with the Criterion releases, curator Mark Toscano has chosen a small selection of films that appear on By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume Two and will be screening them in their original 16mm format. Film prints are from the Academy Film Archive and Canyon Cinema; and Toscano will appear in person to discuss Brakhage’s work.
- 6/1/2010
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
March 10
8:00 & 10:15 p.m.
The Silent Movie Theater
611 N Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Hosted by: The Cinefamily
Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, along with fellow musicians Ulrich Krieger and Alan Licht, will be performing an improvised set during a screening of the classic Stan Brakhage experimental film Text of Light. Plus, there will be a screening of Huckleberry Lain’s animated film Parallel, which will be accompanied by a live performance by the electronic band Languis.
The Text of Light, like the majority of Brakhage’s work, is, of course, a silent film — a meditation of vision focused on the light and images fractured through a glass ashtray. Although Brakhage used sound in some of his very early films and in some later ones, he mostly believed that cinema should be purely visual experience and shunned soundtracks.
However, Ranaldo does not describe the performance he will be doing as a soundtrack.
8:00 & 10:15 p.m.
The Silent Movie Theater
611 N Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Hosted by: The Cinefamily
Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, along with fellow musicians Ulrich Krieger and Alan Licht, will be performing an improvised set during a screening of the classic Stan Brakhage experimental film Text of Light. Plus, there will be a screening of Huckleberry Lain’s animated film Parallel, which will be accompanied by a live performance by the electronic band Languis.
The Text of Light, like the majority of Brakhage’s work, is, of course, a silent film — a meditation of vision focused on the light and images fractured through a glass ashtray. Although Brakhage used sound in some of his very early films and in some later ones, he mostly believed that cinema should be purely visual experience and shunned soundtracks.
However, Ranaldo does not describe the performance he will be doing as a soundtrack.
- 3/9/2010
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
This week you're probably not interested in what's opening in theaters, because like me you're too preoccupied with what's going on at Sundance. That's where the real action is for independent cinema right now.
So I'm doing something a little different this week, spotlighting three special films playing at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. As a special treat to non-festival goers, you have the opportunity to watch each film in your own home. It doesn't matter how far you are from the goings-on in Park City, Utah, just so long as your cable provider carries the VOD channel Sundance Selects.
Although I'm concentrating on this one specific service, let me remind you that other 2010 Sundance films are available to rent and stream on YouTube as well.
"Daddy Longlegs"
What it is: "Daddy Longlegs" is a drama starring Ronnie Bronstein as a divorced dad in NYC who gets his two young sons (real-life brothers,...
So I'm doing something a little different this week, spotlighting three special films playing at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. As a special treat to non-festival goers, you have the opportunity to watch each film in your own home. It doesn't matter how far you are from the goings-on in Park City, Utah, just so long as your cable provider carries the VOD channel Sundance Selects.
Although I'm concentrating on this one specific service, let me remind you that other 2010 Sundance films are available to rent and stream on YouTube as well.
"Daddy Longlegs"
What it is: "Daddy Longlegs" is a drama starring Ronnie Bronstein as a divorced dad in NYC who gets his two young sons (real-life brothers,...
- 1/26/2010
- by Christopher Campbell
- MTV Movies Blog
Remix albums are unpredictable prospects, sometimes yielding blissful, expressionistic results and sometimes…not so much.
The Isis Oceanic: Remixes/Reinterpretations album, check. Puscifer’s “V” Is For Viagra remix album, check. Prong’s Power To The Damn Mixxxer, dubious at times, but check. The latest Ministry and Revolting Cocks remix albums…well, you know, they are what they are.
If you think Fantomas and Pigface are weird, you’ve heard nothing compared to the Melvins’ disquieting remix entreaty, Chicken Switch. Whereas most remix projects pinpoint single songs for reassembly purposes, the always-nutty Melvins put their electro-noise artisans to a more difficult task: defragging entire Melvins albums!
As each remixer on-hand for Chicken Switch is given a full slab to dissect for brand new creations, an actual Melvins feel is more devoid than one might expect. Eye Yamatsuka of the Japanese noise rock band Boredom is perhaps the only remixer to...
The Isis Oceanic: Remixes/Reinterpretations album, check. Puscifer’s “V” Is For Viagra remix album, check. Prong’s Power To The Damn Mixxxer, dubious at times, but check. The latest Ministry and Revolting Cocks remix albums…well, you know, they are what they are.
If you think Fantomas and Pigface are weird, you’ve heard nothing compared to the Melvins’ disquieting remix entreaty, Chicken Switch. Whereas most remix projects pinpoint single songs for reassembly purposes, the always-nutty Melvins put their electro-noise artisans to a more difficult task: defragging entire Melvins albums!
As each remixer on-hand for Chicken Switch is given a full slab to dissect for brand new creations, an actual Melvins feel is more devoid than one might expect. Eye Yamatsuka of the Japanese noise rock band Boredom is perhaps the only remixer to...
- 11/16/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Ray Van Horn, Jr.)
- Fangoria
Merce Cunningham takes a bow with his dancers and Kim Gordon and Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth at his 90th birthday celebration, on April 16, 2009. From PatrickMcMullan.com. The passing of Merce Cunningham on Sunday night marked the loss of one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. As a dancer, a choreographer, and the founder of Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Cunningham’s contribution to dance, specifically American dance, ranks with George Balanchine’s and Martha Graham’s. In the mid-1950s, Cunningham introduced the world to a new form of movement that neither mimicked nor mocked its competing genres, ballet and modern dance. Since then, and until his 90th birthday in April, he created such enduring works as Crises (1960) and Sounddance (1975), and mentored renowned dancers including Paul Taylor, Karole Armitage, and Lucinda Childs. He famously danced in every one of his company’s performances until turning 70, in 1989, and consistently...
- 7/27/2009
- Vanity Fair
- Such as Josh Safdie's previous effort The Pleasure of Being Robbed, Go Get Some Rosemary is easy to get into and hard to follow. It may be easy to brush off the film for its lack of aestheticism (they have a style on their own and I've incorrectly labeled them in the past as part of the mumblecore movment), but it's easy to get into because of the magnetic pull of the intriguing lead character (brought to life by director, projectionist and apparently now, actor Ronnie Bronstein) and the microscopic treatment of the details: the strong suit and the Safdie Bros. and their calling card. Told from the point of view of the father who is overwhelmed by life, he has used everyone of his last favors and "get out of jail free cards" to the point that his judgment is impaired. Structurally, the story is fueled by one crisis after another,
- 5/16/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
- This year's Cannes sidebar section Director's Fortnight will be home to a pair of mumblecore offerings: one which we are already familiar with in Lynn Shelton's Humpday who was highly praised at Sundance – the crowd with which I caught the comedy with were rolling all over themselves (the film's first 30-40 minutes is extremely well written) and the other, is the world premiere from the Safdie brothers' Josh and Benny who closed the same section last year (with The Pleasure Of Being Robbed) and who quickly whipped up a new project with financing from France and the States. Mumblecore is far from losing its freshness - I have a feeling that it is here to stay especially when fests like Berlin and Cannes include them within their line-ups. Berlin-based Films Boutique has just picked up the sales right to Go Get Some Rosemary which features Frownland director Ronnie Bronstein in the lead role,
- 5/7/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
Ever since psychedelic rock began, its combination of effects-laden guitars, heavy drums, and echoed vocals, once the most forward-thinking of mixtures, has seemed more and more tethered to a specific time in the past, even as plenty of good bands have mined it and even extended it stylistically. Austin quintet The Black Angels are canny bricoleurs of that continuum, and on Directions To See A Ghost, they either stretch out or stick to basics. They're good at it, too, even as they bring to mind specific antecedents and peers: The eight-and-a-half-minute "Never/Ever" resembles a cross between early Sonic Youth (rumbling tom-toms, doomy vibe) and latter-day Clinic (needling vocals, needling organ), and Sy crops up again on "The Return," in which Alex Maas' vocals recall Lee Ranaldo's. It's kind of samey, sure—but in a formalist genre, that isn't necessarily a bad thing.
- 5/13/2008
- by Michaelangelo Matos
- avclub.com
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