Thurston Moore Solo Album

This is my trying-not-to-be-annoying pic of Thurston Moore from Sxsw this year. He had come into the club where the Kill Rock Stars Showcase was, and a little star struck, I snapped this awful picture.

In tandem with tickets for Sonic Youth going on sale here in my area (Dallas & Austin fans buy here, not thru ticketbastard), here are a couple of new tunes from a forthcoming Thurston solo album which will be out on Thurston's label Ecstatic Peace on September 18. It's mostly acoustic material and includes friends J Mascis, Christina Carter (of the Charlambides), Steve Shelley(SY drummer), & Samara Lubelski(violinist).

Thurston Moore & Christina Carter - Honest James

Thurston Moore - Fri/Emd

Sonic Youth hits the road this summer, even playing the classic Daydream Nation all the way thru in California and New York. Daydream Nation was just re-released as a deluxe edition with extras galore:
-15 live tracks
-studio extras
-new liner notes
-unseen photos

A 4LP edition will be out on July 10th.

SONIC YOUTH TOUR DATES

June 27 Berlin, Germany Columbia Halle Performing Daydream Nation

June 29 Gdynia, Poland Open'er Festival
July 1 Cergy Pontoise, France Furia Sound Festival
July 3 Istres, France La Palio
July 5 Torino, Italy Spaziale Performing Daydream Nation
July 6 Ferrara, Italy Piazza Castello Performing Daydream Nation
July 7 Roma, Italy Romano di Ostia Antica Performing Daydream Nation

July 13 Chicago, IL Pitchfork Music Festival Performing Daydream Nation
July 19 Berkeley CA Berkely Community Theater Performing Daydream Nation
July 20 Los Angeles, CA Greek Theatre Performing Daydream Nation
July 21 Santa Monica, CA KXLU show at Urban Outfitters
July 28 Brooklyn, NY McCarren Park Pool Performing Daydream Nation

August 15 Near Porto, Portugal Paredes de Coura Festival
August 17 Saint-Malo, France La Route du Rock Performing Daydream Nation
August 18 Hasselt, Belgium Pukkelpop Festival Performing Daydream Nation
August 19 Biddinhuizen, Holland Lowlands
August 21 Glasgow, Scotland ABC1 performing Daydream Nation
August 22 Glasgow, Scotland ABC1 performing Daydream Nation
August 25 Prague, Czech Republic Archa Theatre
August 26 Vienna, Austria Openair at ARENA
August 27 Zagreb, Croatia INmusic Festival
August 29 Paris, La Vilette Jazz Festival with guests Mats Gustafson, Michel Doneda, and Jean-Marc Monterra
August 30 London, England Roundhouse performing Daydream Nation
August 31 London, England Roundhouse performing Daydream Nation
September 1 London, England Roundhouse performing Daydream Nation
September 2 County Laois, Ireland Electric Picnic
October 5 Austin, TX Stubbs BBQ
October 6 Marfa, TX Thunderbird Hotel- Chinati Open House Weekend
October 7 Dallas, TX House of Blues

Super Limited Thurston Moore Cassette

Do you love Sonic Youth? How about drones? I thought some of you, probably a very small sum, would enjoy this.

Thurston Moore - Black Weeds / White Death C40 Cassette (Meudiademorte)
“New solo album from Thurston that dovetails beautifully with the feathers of feedback drone that dominated Flipped-Out Bride. This one starts with the same kind of phantom electricity before dovetailing into railroads of gloriously overloaded guitar, all cut into chunks of singing fuzz. Some absolutely wild playing here that touches on Haino’s form circa The Book Of Eternity Set Aflame. Limited to only 200 copies and housed in a full-colour 8×6 inch art pack. Recommended.”
Volcanic Tongue

DL it here. (change the xx to tt)

In September, Thurston will release Trees Outside the Academy. Get some tracks here from my previous post about it.

Sort It Out

This is kind of what my brain feels like right now. I am trying to go thru the 500+ pics that i took during the week. I also may have an mp3 or two to share, if they turned out.

For now, here is a little quick round up.

Best band I had never even heard the name of: Bellafea

Best lived-up-to-the-hype: Crystal Castles (except that it was a super short set)

Best Reunion: The Slits

Best Haven't-Seen-in-Awhile: Janeane Garofalo

Band that got all glitsy and famous: Sons and Daughters

Band set to blow up: Okkervil River

Jerk of the Week: Taylor Hanson

Coolest guy-that-has-every-reason-to-act-big-but-doesn't: Thurston Moore

The Austinist has compiled a huge list of possibilities for SXSW this year. Last year SXSW announced over 100 bands in December. But they're holding out, hoping to avoid day-party poaching. Heaven forbid a band gets too exposed. Keep in mind none of these are a lock, but more than likely, many of these band will be there.

AM
Ad Astra Per Aspera
Airbourne
Amy Millan
Andrew Winton
Apollo Sunshine
Aqueduct
Architecture In Helsinki
As Tall As Lions
Badly Drawn Boy
Beasts Of Bourbon
Bic Runga
Black Helicopter
Black Moth Super Rainbow
Black Rose Band
Blindspott
Bloc Party
Brave Radar
Call Me Lightning
Carly Binding
Castanets
Charalambides
Children Collide
Chris Mills
Chris Smither
Circa Survive
Cold War Kids
Crooked Still
Cute Is What We Aim For
Danny Saul
Devin The Dude
Die! Die! Die
Dimmer
Dirty Fuzz
Eilen Jewell
Elemeno P
Emmylou Harris
Errors
Evermore
Every Move a Picture
Fatal Flying Guilloteens
Field Guides
Foals
Gasoline Cowboy
George Byrne
Ghostland Observatory
Girl Talk
Go! Go! 7188
Great Lakes Myth Society
HY
Haunt (Matt Hebert)
Hazey Janes
Hedrons
High Dials
Hoodoo Gurus
I Heart Hiroshima
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
Interpol
Jeffrey Foucault
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter
Jessie Deluxe
Josh Pyke
Kill Surf City
Kiosk
Kris Delmhorst
Kristoffer Ragnstam
LZ Love
Les Savy Fav
Lily Allen
Little Birdy
MV+EE
Macromantics
Magik Markers
Malajube
Margot and the Nuclear So And Sos
Mates Of State
Matt & Kim
Menomena
Mint Chicks
Money Waters
Monotract
Morrissey
My Latest Novel
New Buffalo
New Violators
OWKMJ (Ore Wa Konna Mon Janai)
Octopus Project
Okkervil River
Oreska Band
Ozomatli
Pagoda
Paul Kelly
Pete Townshend
Peter & the Wolf
Pig Out
Pistol Valve
Popup
RJD2
Rachel Fuller
Rahim
Rocky Votolato
Sarah Blasko
Sasquatch
Say Hi To Your Mom
Scissor Sisters
Scout's Honor
Secretary Bird
Shaky Hands
Snowden
So So Modern
Sonic Flyer
Spod
Starky
Stax 50th Anniversary Soul Review
Sunwrae
Tall Firs
Tally Hall
Temposhark
The 50 Kaitens
The Amity Front
The Big Sleep
The Black Hollies
The Caribbean
The Creteens
The Emeralds
The Frames
The Fratellis
The Gear
The Have
The Needles
The Panda Band
The Rise
The Shivers
The Soft Hands
The Stooges
The Theater Fire
The Walkmen
The Weird Weeds
The Wild Eyes
The Young Knives
The Zebras
Thinking Aloud
Thunderbirds Are Now!
Thurston Moore
Turbonegro
Under Byen
Union Of Knives
Via Tania
Viva Voce
Voxtrot
W-S Burn
Watson Twins
Wild Eyes
Winterkids
Winterpills
Wooden Wand
X-Wife
Yip-Yip
Youth Group
Zach Galifianakis

New Releases

Hot Chip pic from SXSW this year
(Notice the red star tambourine hanging from the korg. It hit Michael on the shoulder that night, but now it jangles for him.)

So, you do your ritual Tuesday stroll of the aisles at your local record shop. This week's items for your consideration:

These are imports streeting today (Monday June 12)
Nelly Furtado - Loose
Joan as Policewoman - Real Life (of Antony & the Johnsons)
Kinnie Starr - Anything
Tunng - Comments of the Inner Chorus

For June 13th
Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds
First Nation - First Nation
The Futureheads - News and Tributes
Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom - Relevee (cd sgl & 12" w/dfa remix)
Hot Chip - The Warning (also on 2LP)
Thurston Moore - Psychic Hearts (LP)
Small Sins - Small Sins
Smog - Rock Bottom Riser
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope (ltd ed/regular edition/or share with a friend edition)

Don't You Remember You Told Me You Loved Me Baby

The past month or so I've been obsessing over Sonic Youth's Goo. I never knew much about them until I heard Sonic Nurse in my sister's car on the way to Austin City Limits a couple years ago. Anyway Goo is a terrific album full of swooping guitars and Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore swapping mic duty, each doing a great job at it.
My favorite song off the album is "Tunic (Song for Karen)" I don't know what it is that made me love it, but it's just amazing. I wanted to know more about the song and found out the whole backstory on how it's about Karen Carpenter. It all fit! The song made so much more sense then, and meant a lot more. I grew up listening to the Carpenters, probably like many others my age and older. My mom had all their records blah blah blah. Anyway yeah. I was excited to see Sonic Youth had even covered "Superstar."

Sonic Youth-Superstar (The Carpenters cover)

I Know I Know I Know

Yeah I'm the last to post up this mp3 but I couldn't not post it cuz I loves me some Chan Marshall pretty hard.

The Greatest

I can't wait till January 24th.

Other Cat Power mp3s:
He Was a Friend of Mine (Bob Dylan cover)
I Found a Reason (Velvet Underground cover)
Psychic Hearts (Thurston Moore cover)
Rockets