No Fun Fest
Bardo Pond & White Out (w/ Thurston Moore) - recent releases & an upcoming show (at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC)
Thurston w/ Sonic Youth @ MHOW in November (more by Lori Baily)
Thurston Moore will join White Out (noisemaking duo Lin Culbertson and Tom Surgal) for what, according to their website, is the only the group’s third show this year…
No Fun Fest 2009 @ MHOW - night 3 in pics
Conrad Schnitzler’s Con-Cert: If thunder was a distant, beautiful room moving towards you with you in it, this is what it would feel like to feel your way around it’s edges…
No Fun Fest @ MHOW - night 2 (Sonic Youth) - pics & video
Sonic Youth ended the second night of 2009’s No Fun Fest with a seated set of distorted guitar noise and drums. Instead of Lee Ranaldo (who was busy at Cannes…
No Fun Fest @ MHOW - night 1 in pics, video & review
“LOUDER!” “TURN IT UP!”
After leaving Melvins at Webster Hall on Friday (May 15, 2009), where the thundering basstones of Trevor Dunn were vibrating my chest, it was a little odd that the sounds emanating from British power electronic terrorists Grey Wolves over at Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, were comparatively silent…
Raglani's gear stolen from his van in Brooklyn after No Fun Fest (look for it - full list posted)
Raglani (with gear) @ No Fun Fest (Friday) ()
St Louis’s Riverfront Times reports, “Terrible news out of New York, where local experimental artist Raglani performed at the esteemed No Fun Fest on Friday night …
No Fun Fest kicks off, partially at the New Museum where the Gamma Rays & Younger Lovers played (pics)
The 2009 edition of No Fun Fest kicks off at Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn tonight (5/15). All three nights are sold out, even the nights Sonic Youth aren’t playing (though those tonight’s took a bit longer to sell)…
Melvins almost here, Thrones too - 2009 Tour Dates
Melvins at Oya in Norway (more)
These days everyone is looking back, and the Melvins (sans members of Big Business) are no exception, as evidenced bassist Joe Preston will also be in town…
Jean Grae, Jim O'Rourke & others playing the New Museum
NYC’s very own critically-acclaimed lyricist Jean Grae will perform at NYC’s New Museum on Friday, May 1st along with “the soul-inspired hip-hop of Derrin Maxwell and the gritty, heavily-fried underground funk of 3beanstew…
Thurston @ Santos (tonight), July 4th recording (w/ album pre-order), No Fun set info & other Sonic Youth news
DOWNLOAD: Sonic Youth – The Eternal (montage) (MP3)
Sonic Youth @ Battery Park (4th of July) (more by Jason Bergman)
Sonic Youth’s new record, The Eternal, is still set for a June 9th release on Matador Records and the label is taking preorders for the album through its Buy Early Get Now program…
Noveller (Sarah Lipstate) - Cinema 16 & other appearances
Noveller is the solo project of Brooklyn-based sound artist and filmmaker Sarah Lipstate. She has performed in Rhys Chatham’s Guitar Army, and as a member of Glenn Branca’s 100 guitar ensemble…
