Photo credit: Natalia Mantini Kim Gordon’s No Home Record is a tough, sexy album and it sounds exactly like what you’d expect from her solo debut, after three decades spent in her former band, Sonic Youth. Often dissonant, occasionally menacing, and never boring, Gordon’s new album provides squalls of guitar […]
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As a founding member of Sonic Youth, Lee Ranaldo etched his name into the canon of New York rock artists during his 30-year tenure with the group, from 1981 to 2011. In July 2017 I interviewed him upon the occasion of the release of his newest album, Eletric Trim.
I interviewed ex- Sonic Youth bass player and vocalist Kim Gordon upon the release of her first solo album, No Home Record. The album and Gordon’s visual art were two subjects that came up in the chat I had with her just after the album’s release.
As a founding member of Sonic Youth, Lee Ranaldo etched his name into the canon of New York rock artists during his 30-year tenure with the group, from 1981 to 2011. His inventive guitar playing, built upon unusual tunings, sprung from the city’s downtown experimental ‘No Wave’ scene and had […]
Record Store Day…What an excellent idea! It’s not only really just become a thing. It’s really just become a great thing! Record Store Day 2015 is this Saturday, April 18. As a guy who worked at Second Coming Records (the one between Harvard Square & Central Square in Cambridge, MA […]
Cool event last night at the intimate Marlin Room (capacity 500) at Webster Hall with Thurston Moore. It was a free show presented by Norton Antivirus and Pandora that you had to RSVP for and it featured an open bar – really! The former Sonic Youth guitarist/singer is now living in […]
