Tagged: Sonic Youth
Wavves “100%” (Sonic Youth Cover) MP3
When Wavves’ frontman Nathan Williams isn’t reading Aldous Huxley or Jeff Chang, he’s apparently getting stoned and watching The Price is Right while simultaneously recording an impromptu cover of Sonic Youth’s “100%.” Not bad for … read more »
Video: Thurston Moore’s Take Away Show In His NYC Apartment
La Blogotheque‘s cameras followed Thurston Moore to his downtown digs where he performed a few cuts from his Beck-produced solo LP “Demolished Thoughts” (out now via Matador Records). Moore, accompanied by violinist Samara Lubelski, ran … read more »
Stream: Thurston Moore’s Beck-Produced Album Demolished Thoughts
Noise rock guitar god Thurston Moore puts down the Jazzmaster and picks up the acoustic guitar for this Beck produced nine-song LP. The tracks—tranquil meditations on love and Orchard St. in Manhattan—feature swooning violins and … read more »
Schnipper’s Slept On: I Was a Nordic Music Prize Judge
Each Tuesday, FADER editor Matthew Schnipper highlights an underappreciated release he thinks we need to know about. This week it’s Olaf Arnald’s Innundir Skinni, unofficial runner up for the Nordic Music Prize. Listen to the … read more »
Thurston Moore Is Back to Blogging + Stream Sonic Youth’s French Film Soundtrack
We first fell in love Thurston Moore when a friend showed us a Sassy Magazine love advice column he’d done for teenage girls. Now, after a slight lull on his blog the Sonic Youth man … read more »
Sex Beet, “Dirty Boots (Sonic Youth Cover)” MP3
Ok so this song doesn’t necessarily contain the awesomely romantic 90′s vibe that Sonic Youth stirs up in this video, but it does have an extremely surfy guitar intro and some real woolly vocals. London’s … read more »
Tent Posts: Austin City Limits, Day 1
Austin City Limits, held in downtown Austin’s Zilker Park, has been tainted for years by biblical plagues: choking dust, manure mudslides and perennially lame line-ups. The musical offerings in recent years were so mediocre that … read more »
Darcel Disappoints Is An Illustrated Twitter
Darcel Disappoints is like a more beautiful, googley-eyed version of Twitter. Our tweets are majorly boring (“Drinking Coconut Water”, “Going to bed now”), but Australian artist Craig Redman turns his daily musings into whole illustrated … read more »
Kim Gordon Made A Book About You (And How You’re Kind Of Creepy)
It’s become clear over the years that while Kim Gordon has some obvious chops in Sonic Youth, simply deeming her a musician doesn’t really do her gifts justice. She’s an artist in several senses of … read more »
Haiku Review: We Are Plastic Ono Band @ BAM
Photography by Kevin Mazur/Wire Image Mothers and fathers and daughters and sons as one a living haiku
