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Lee Ranaldo playing Union Pool with Chris Lee and Spectre Folk; Steve Shelley drumming for all three?

Lee Ranaldo at Prospect Park, July 2012 (more by Dana [Distortion] Yavin)
Lee Ranaldo

While the status on Lee Ranaldo best-known musical endeavor remains up in the air, he’s keeping busy supporting his new solo album which came out on Matador earlier this year, like opening for Wilco at Prospect Park last month. Next up: he’s playing Union Pool on August 30 with Chris Lee and Spectre Folk. No advance tickets for this show at the moment.

UPDATE: Tickets go on sale today (8/15) at 6 PM.

Lee’s Sonic Youth bandmate Steve Shelley not only plays in Lee Ranaldo’s band and Spectre Folk, but also runs new label Vampire Blues which just released new records by Spectre Folk and Chris Lee so this is basically a big label launch / record release party. You can stream both below via a Spotify player. Shelley plays drums on Chris Lee’s new album, Bury the Kings, so he may not leave the drum kit all night.

In other related news, Ranaldo’s other other band, Glacial, just released their new album, On Jones Beach, which consists of one 42-minute track. (Pitchfork gave it an 8.0.) Ranaldo will also be playing this year’s ATP New York in September. And Thurston Moore’s new band, Chelsea Light Moving, plays their first NYC show at 285 Kent on September 12 and tickets are still available with proceeds going to benefit Charalambides’ Tom Carter who fell seriously ill this year while touring Europe.

Flyer for the Union Pool show and album streams are below.

Union Pool Flyer