Sonic Youth streaming 1993 Portugal show video & live ‘Desolation Center’ Q&A
Sonic Youth have been digging through their extensive archives and posting posting rare releases on Bandcamp, and now they're getting into their video archives too...
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Sonic Youth album guide – a look back on all 16 studio albums
Sonic Youth put out 16 studio albums over the course of 27 years, all of it varying from good to some of the greatest rock music ever recorded. Here's a deep dive into all 16 of those albums...
Thurston Moore announces new album ‘By the Fire,’ shares “Hashish”
Thurston calls the new song ”an ode to the narcotic of love in our shared responsibility to each other during isolation.”
12 new Sonic Youth & SY-related releases out on Bandcamp today
Archival Sonic Youth live recordings, previously unreleased Wylde Ratttz material, a recording of the only live performance by Kim Gordon's Supreme Indifference, and more SY-related releases are out in time for today's Bandcamp fundraiser...
Sonic Youth add ‘Master-Dik’ EP & ‘Live at ATP 2000′ to Bandcamp archive
The 1987 Master-Dik EP includes a cover of Ramones' "Beat on the Brat" and more; Live at ATP 2000 featured most of NYC Ghosts & Flowers which had yet to be released.
watch Lee Ranaldo’s new video for “Isolation” (John Lennon cover)
The video is made from video submitted by friends and fans from all over the world during lockdown. "Isolation" is from Lee's 1998 album Amarillo Ramp (for Robert Smithson) which just hit Lee's Bandcamp.
Sonic Youth share ‘Blastic Scene’ bootleg via Bandcamp to celebrate ‘Experimental Jet Set……
”Blastic Scene was recorded live at Sonic Youth’s first ever concert in Portugal, at a bull-ring in Lisbon, in July 1993” says drummer Steve Shelley. ”SY had not yet recorded the songs that would make up EJST&NS but previewed several new songs nightly of the July Euro…
Disappears share “lost” collab album w/ Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley & White/Light
”Their one-afternoon, two-drummers, three-guitarists, no-rules jam evolved into a productive and glorious multi-day freakout, which resulted in the recording of these eight songs.”
60+ special/exclusive releases for today’s Bandcamp fundraiser
Exclusive/special releases for today's Bandcamp fundraiser include Superchunk, Archers of Loaf, Arab Strap, The Hold Steady, Straylight Run, Sacred Bones' Black Sabbath tribute LP, !!!, The Helio Sequence, Cloud Nothings, Mogwai, and much more....
Wylde Ratttz (Sonic Youth/Stooges band from ‘Velvet Goldmine’) share unreleased 1997 recor…
The Stooges' Ron Asheton, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore & Steve Shelley, Mudhoney's Mark Arm, Minutemen's Mike Watt, Sean Lennon, producer/Gumball leader Don Fleming and Jim Dunbar formed The Wylde Ratttz in 1997 to record tracks by The Stooges for Todd Haynes' loosely-ba…