photos by Lori Baily

Matador Records helped Sonic Youth celebrate the release of their new record The Eternal with a party at Home Sweet Home on the Lower East Side of Manhattan last Friday. The semi-private show had local bands playing Sonic Youth covers while the actual Sonic Youth was hanging out in the crowd.

Bands included The Antlers, Tiny Masters of Today, Apache Beat, The Homosexuals (backed by members of Fiasco), and "The Goo Believers" (at least that's what I think they called themselves). They were Chris Brokaw (Come, Codeine), Jemina Pearl (Be Your Own Pet, Ecstatic Peace label), Matt Krefting (Ecstatic Peace label), Zachary Cale, John Maloney (Sunburned Hand of the Man), and Jaiko Suzuki (Electroputas). You can see Thurston Moore watching them from the sidelines in some of the pictures below...

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Mute Records (home of Richard Hawley, Art Brut, Liars, Erasure, Grinderman, Erasure, Moby, Depeche Mode, Goldfrapp, etc, etc...) went ahead and signed Brooklyn's own Tiny Masters of Today - the band composed of members with an average age of 12! That's awesome. Their debut album Bang Bang Boom Cake will be released August 6th, and the first single 'Radio Riot' can be heard in the video below...

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