David Jobling
Sonic Youth | The Eternal
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Sonic Youth
Sonic Youths 16th album, The Eternal, will be released on vinyl, compact disc, and digital album by Matador Records on June 9. Produced by John Agnello and the band, The Eternal not only marks Sonic Youths return to the independent label sphere (titles on their own SYR label excepted) after a long association with Geffen, but more importantly, ranks as one of their more inspired efforts in a 28 year career.
Recorded through November and December of last year at the bands Echo Canyon West studio in Hoboken, NJ, The Eternal features many firsts for a Sonic Youth album, including a number of shared vocals between Kim, Thurston, and Lee, and the studio debut of former Pavement/Dustdevils bassist Mark Ibold, a member of Sonic Youths touring band for the past few years.
The bands current extracurricular activities are particularly interesting. The Kunsthalle in Dusseldorf, Germany is now hosting the touring museum exhibition SONIC YOUTH ETC.: SENSATIONAL FIX, which focuses on the band's multidisciplinary work since the bands formation in 1981, including their collaborations with visual artists, filmmakers, designers and musicians.
Kim Gordon launches a clothing line, Mirror/Dash, at Urban Outfitters on February 16, and is showing at The Armory Show in NYC March 5-8.
Lee Ranaldo, with co-conspirator Leah Singer, just opened installations at the Konsthall in Stockholm and the CNEAI in Paris, and he has a piece in the travelling exhibition Bad Moon Rising 3, currently at Boots Contemporary Art Space in St. Louis.
A Beck/Sonic Youth split 7" is being released by Matador on April 18 for Record Store Day.
And the band recently collaborated with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (along with former Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones and mixed-media sound composer Takehisa Kosugi) on a work celebrating, and being performed for, Cunninghams 90th birthday on April 16 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Matador will shortly announce a Buy Early Get Now opportunity for the album with some very interesting bonus material.
Sonic Youth are:
Steve Shelley
Lee Ranaldo
Kim Gordon
Thurston Moore
Mark Ibold
Recorded through November and December of last year at the bands Echo Canyon West studio in Hoboken, NJ, The Eternal features many firsts for a Sonic Youth album, including a number of shared vocals between Kim, Thurston, and Lee, and the studio debut of former Pavement/Dustdevils bassist Mark Ibold, a member of Sonic Youths touring band for the past few years.
The bands current extracurricular activities are particularly interesting. The Kunsthalle in Dusseldorf, Germany is now hosting the touring museum exhibition SONIC YOUTH ETC.: SENSATIONAL FIX, which focuses on the band's multidisciplinary work since the bands formation in 1981, including their collaborations with visual artists, filmmakers, designers and musicians.
Kim Gordon launches a clothing line, Mirror/Dash, at Urban Outfitters on February 16, and is showing at The Armory Show in NYC March 5-8.
Lee Ranaldo, with co-conspirator Leah Singer, just opened installations at the Konsthall in Stockholm and the CNEAI in Paris, and he has a piece in the travelling exhibition Bad Moon Rising 3, currently at Boots Contemporary Art Space in St. Louis.
A Beck/Sonic Youth split 7" is being released by Matador on April 18 for Record Store Day.
And the band recently collaborated with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (along with former Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones and mixed-media sound composer Takehisa Kosugi) on a work celebrating, and being performed for, Cunninghams 90th birthday on April 16 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Matador will shortly announce a Buy Early Get Now opportunity for the album with some very interesting bonus material.
Sonic Youth are:
Steve Shelley
Lee Ranaldo
Kim Gordon
Thurston Moore
Mark Ibold
