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The connection between Levi’s and the music world is undeniable, from the Ramones to George Harrison to Beyoncé. But recently, the denim brand has been leaning into its rock n’ roll reputation with its band tee collaborations, honoring ’80s and ’90s icons. Levi’s previously teamed up with New Order, Joy Division and dropped an Oasis collection in August.

The latest collab, available now, celebrates underground icons Sonic Youth...

A couple of Ramones tribute albums are in the works featuring contributions from Thurston Moore, Napalm Death, Dave Lombardo, Gwar’s Blöthar the Berserker, Voivod, and more.

Magnetic Eye Records has announced the next installments of its “Redux” series, in which various artists cover entire classic albums. To honor the legendary Ramones, the label is putting together two collections, one a tribute to Ramones’ 1976 self-titled debut album and another a best of the rest of the iconic punk act’s discography.

The tracks have already been recorded and include a number of unique collaborations: Napalm Death with Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth); David J (Bauhaus) with Paul Wallfisch; Arthur Brown with Blöthar the Berserker (Gwar); Dave & Paula Lombardo’s band Venamoris with Eicca Toppinen (Apocalytpica); Kayo Dot & Ihsahn (Emperor); Voivod with Jg Thirlwell, and more.

The tribute albums — Ramones Redux and The Best of Ramones Redux — are being curated by Grammy-winning producer Marc Urselli,...

Back in the Eighties and Nineties, the release of a major rock star memoir was a fairly uncommon event. Noteworthy ones like George Harrison’s I, Me, Mine (1980), Iggy Pop’s I Need More (1982), and David Lee Roth’s Crazy From the Heat (1997) popped up every once in a while, but it wasn’t until the 2000s that this genre started making regular appearances on The New York Times bestseller list, thanks to landmark works like Anthony Kiedis’ Scar Tissue, Bob Dylan’s Chronicles: Volume One, Eric Clapton’s The Autobiography,...

On Friday, December 5th, three-quarters of Sonic Youth reunited for a special performance.

The event was officially billed as a duo event featuring the band’s Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo — part of a run of intimate shows from Moore at The Stone in New York. But during Friday night’s show, the pair brought out special guest Steve Shelley, and the trio proceeded to play a long, improvised noise set.

Clips of the performance are available online, showing the musicians jamming on a droning, distorted improvisation, which escalates from a low-simmering, brooding sound to a thrashing climax of guitars and cymbals. Watch fan-captured footage below.

Meanwhile, Moore’s other performances at The Stone were equally intriguing, with a number of rotating guests, including Fred Frith, Wobbly, and others. This past September, he released his latest solo album, Flow Critical Lucidity, and last year he published the autobiography, Sonic Life: A Memoir.

The Sofia Coppola, Roman Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola connections to Redd Kross founders Jeffrey McDonald and Steve McDonald (in the Hawthorne T-shirt) are revealed in Andrew Reich’s campy and quick-witted Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story Photo: Born Innocent

Andrew Reich’s campy and quick-witted Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story (executive produced by Josh Braun and Dan Braun) on Jeffrey McDonald and Steve McDonald takes us into their creative and private worlds through insightful on-camera interviews with the brothers and their parents, Jeff’s wife Charlotte Caffey, their daughter Astrid McDonald, and Steve’s wife Anna Waronker.

Andrew Reich with Ed Bahlman and Anne-Katrin Titze: “I remember I bought a lot of records at 99 Records in New York!”

Thurston Moore; Vicki Peterson (The Bangles); Keith Morris (Circle Jerks, also seen in Rex Miller’s unrelenting Harley...

If Kim Gordon’s first-ever Grammy nominations for her current album, The Collective, intrigued anyone enough to investigate her former band, Sonic Youth, they will be given the perfect opportunity to do so when a rare live recording is officially released next year.

Hold That Tiger, recorded at Chicago’s Cabaret Metro in October 1987, was first rolled out as a semi-bootleg on the long-ago Goofin’ indie. On February 7, the Superior Viaduct label will finally make the album more widely available (and on vinyl and CD to boot).

Featuring the band’s seminal lineup of Gordon,...

"There's a unique function that happens in the dysfunction." Abramorama has revealed an official trailer for a rad new rock band documentary film called Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story, from director Andrew Reich. It first premiered last year and won the Jury Award for Best Documentary at the 2023 Sound Unseen Film Festival. From inventing Beach Punk to influencing the Grunge and Hair Metal movements, Redd Kross have maintained the highest level of musical integrity, originality and quality for over forty years. Born Innocent makes the case for Redd Kross as the seminal West Coast band of the last half century. Their influence reaches across the genres of punk, college rock, grunge, metal & indie rock. Long a "secret handshake" favorite of true music fans, it’s time for the world to discover the joyful and irresistible music of The McDonald Brothers. Featuring Jeff McDonald, Steve McDonald, Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore,...

After a pro-Palestinian activist disrupted Thom Yorke’s solo show on October 30th in Melbourne, Australia, fan footage captured the rock legend calling out the protestor.

“Come up and say that,” Yorke said. “Come up on the fucking stage and say what you want to say. But don’t stand there like a coward, come here and say it. Come on.” He added, “You want to piss on everybody’s night? Come on. Ok, you do. See you later then,” before leaving the stage.

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Reddit users noted that the incident happened towards the end of the evening, and that Yorke soon returned to finish the set with “Karma Police.” Check out the video below.

The protestor’s objectives weren’t immediately clear, but it may have been tied to Yorke and Radiohead’s history of playing concerts in Israel. In 2017, Radiohead, performed in Tel Aviv,...

Each week, Consequence rings in New Music Friday by highlighting new albums to stream. As the new season begins, here are some releases to get you into the fall spirit.

This includes new tunes from Bright Eyes, Jamie xx, and Manu Chau, as well as an expansive live collection from the Bob Dylan archives. Don’t miss Julian Casbalancas’ new album with The Voidz, along with the array of artists who have come together to celebrate the music of Jesse Malin as he rehabilitates from a spinal stroke.

Here are 11 new albums to stream today.

Blu & Exile — Love (the) Ominous World

Hip-hop duo Blu & Exile are back with another major statement: Love (the) Ominous World, their forth studio album. In addition to guest appearances from Aloe Blacc, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Kurupt, Kxng Crooked, Rbx, Rae Khalil, and several more, the album finds the LA duo back at the height of their powers.

On his 66th birthday, Thurston Moore has shared a new single titled “New in Town” from his upcoming album, Flow Critical Lucidity. Stream it below.

Penned by Radieux Radio, the experimental “New in Town” was influenced by 1980s punk and hardcore bands like Minor Threat, Fugazi, Bad Brains, and Red C. Built around off-kilter percussion and Moore’s detached delivery, the track’s theme is “fresh blood,” as the artist explained in a statement.

Moore added, “The song is about… the new kid in school. The new kid on the scene. A new potential for change in an already active community hoping to protect the world from the poisons of power-hungry creeps. The spirit of youth demonstrated in the early ’80s slam pits of hardcore refusing the worn-out expectations of adulthood.”

Flow Critical Lucidity also features the previous singles “Sans Limites,” “Hypnogram,” and “Rewilding.” It’s out on September 20th,...

RaMell Ross's Nickel Boys to open the 62nd New York Film Festival Photo: Anne Katrin Titze

Film at Lincoln Center has announced that RaMell Ross’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel Nickel Boys, starring Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger, Daveed Diggs, and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, will be the Opening Night selection of the 62nd New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall on Friday, September 27. The film is produced by Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, David Levine, and Joslyn Barnes, who co-wrote the screenplay with Ross. Orion Pictures and Amazon MGM Studios present a Plan B Entertainment / Anonymous Content / Louverture Films production.

Colson Whitehead Ecstatic Peace Library reading at The Algonquin, hosted by Thurston Moore and Eva Prinz

“What an absolute honour for Nickel Boys to open the 62nd New York Film Festival... a daydream really, for the crew, the cast, and team who...

In a news photo circulated two weeks ago, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un took turns driving a Russian-made limo in Pyongyang, North Korea. The sight of two dictators tooling around was unsettling — but also ripe for a particular type of mockery. Soon after the photo appeared, a meme began making the rounds with that shot and, above it, the lettering “Sonic Youth LP” — the latest addition to the never-ending tradition of saluting, honoring, or parodying the cover of the now defunct band’s album Goo.

Released in 1990, Goo — Sonic...

Thurston Moore is back, and limitless. The Sonic Youth founding guitarist has officially announced his ninth solo album, Flow Critical Lucidity. It marks his first full length album since 2021’s instrumental meditation Screen Time.

Along with the official album announcement, Moore has shared new single “Sans Limites” featuring Stereolab’s Lætitia Sadier. The track is a slow burn with electronic touches that swirl around a guitar and piano motif until Moore’s voice cuts in more than halfway through the five minute song.

Lyrically, “Sans Limites” is true to its title and explores many topics.

Thurston Moore has announced a new album titled Flow Critical Lucidity, which will arrive on September 20th via The Daydream Library Series. Today, along with the announcement, Moore released the single “Sans Limites,” featuring Stereolab’s Lætitia Sadier.

Flow Critical Lucidity will be Moore’s ninth studio album, and will feature the previously-released singles “Isadora,” “Hypnogram,” and “Rewilding.” The lyrics include references “inspired by nature, lucid dreaming, modern dance, and Isadora Duncan,” according to a press release.

Upon arrival on September 20th, Flow Critical Lucidity will be available on streaming, as well as on vinyl, CD, and cassette formats. Physical editions will include bonus songs. Pre-orders are ongoing.

The new single, “Sans Limites,” is out today, and features backing vocals by Sadier. Speaking about the song in a statement, Moore said, “‘Sans Limites’ begins with a cyclic guitar and piano figure which expands further and further with each revolution before...

It is a paradoxical but nonetheless true statement to say that the retro-leaning L.A. rock band Redd Kross was far ahead of their time — not just musically (the power-pop resurgence of the early ’90s) but also in pop-culture worship and the irony that saturated that decade. But their comic take on those things obscures not just what a great rock band they were and still are, but also the fact that they’re legit OGs on any number of levels.

Formed by brothers Jeff and Steve McDonald, they were initially an L.A. punk rock band whose first gig was opening for the legendary Black Flag when they were virtually children. Then, they decided to rebel against the punk scene by committing the ultimate sin: growing their hair and donning garish ’70s clothes, and recording a battery of songs about everything from teen “Exorcist” star Linda Blair to the Brady Bunch.

Rock fans are in luck: This week’s digital releases involve Sonic Youth, Indigo Girls, and The Beatles. Get ready for a toe-tapping triple feature.

The contender to watch this week: “Uncropped”

A perfect companion piece to “The Freaks Came Out to Write,” Tricia Romano‘s new book about the history of The Village Voice, “Uncropped” profiles one of the iconoclastic newspaper’s signature photographers. James Hamilton captured the streets of New York, musicians like Patti Smith and the Beastie Boys, wartime conflicts in China and the Philippines, and production stills for the likes of Francis Ford Coppola and Wes Anderson. His juicy career is detailed in this unconventional documentary directed by D.W. Young (“The Booksellers”), who stages a handful of intimate conversations between Hamilton and his collaborators, including Anderson and Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore. Following a limited theatrical release in April, “Uncropped” is available on VOD.

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News of Steve Albini’s unexpected passing on Wednesday, May 8th, has been met with an outpouring of tributes from fellow musicians, including those who had worked with him.

Cloud Nothings worked with Albini on their 2012 magnum opus, Attack on Memory. “steve touched countless lives and changed mine and many others for the better,” frontman Dylan Baldi wrote on Twitter. “a genuine, singular, principled person. spent the last 40 years helping people make art. there’s no reason for him to be gone and the world is less interesting without him. just a really sad day.”

Pj Harvey said working with Albini on 1992’s Dry “changed the course of my life. He taught me so much about music, and life. Steve was a great friend – wise, kind and generous. I am so grateful.”

Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker collaborated with Albini on his 2009 solo album, Further Complications. “Working with Steve Albini was...

Wes Anderson’s favorite on-set still photographer James Hamilton with 99 Records founder Ed Bahlman and Anne-Katrin Titze on his Village Works exhibition: “They have a display of eight of my photographs, good size prints, including Lou Reed and John Cale and Pattie Smith and Tom Verlaine and Prince and Debbie Harry.”

In the first instalment with photojournalist James Hamilton, Wes Anderson’s favourite on-set still photographer (James is also the voice of Mole in Fantastic Mr. Fox and makes an appearance in The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou), we start out discussing Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, Grace Kelly’s Mark Cross bag, the Albert Hotel, Harper’s Bazaar, and everything else that James Stewart’s Lb Jeffries eerily has in common with the subject of Dw Young’s surprisingly candid Uncropped (a highlight and centerpiece selection of the 14th edition of Doc NYC).

James Hamilton on Alfred Hitchcock at the St.

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The pre-fame Beatles head to Hamburg in search of success, as they gain popularity the “fifth Beatle” bass guitarist Stuart Sutcliffe (Stephen Dorff), falls in love and ultimately must choose between his best friend John Lennon, his new love, the 22-year-old German photographer Astrid Kirchherr (Sheryl Lee) and the greatest rock and roll band in the world.

The films soundtrack includes rock and roll classics performed by an indie-rock supergroup which includes Dave Pirner (Soul Asylum), Greg Dullis (The Afghan Whigs) and Henry Rollins (Black Flag) on vocals, Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) and Don Fleming (Gumball) on guitar, Mike Mills (R.E.M.) on bass guitar and Dave Grohl (then of Nirvana now of Foo Fighters) on drums.

Backbeat opened the 1994 Sundance Film Festival and went on to receive...

Thurston Moore returns today to celebrate Earth Day with “Rewilding,” an ode to the UK’s land restoration and renewal program.

With a hypnotic, percussive-groove at the song’s center, Moore enters a nature-induced dream state. “This terrain is changing/ Rewilding, rearranging/ So I’m singing for animals/ Outside here just grazing,” Moore mutters at the song’s opening, with My Bloody Valentine bassist Deb Googe laying a thick, repetitive bassline beneath him.

“Don’t you dare wake me/ A butterfly just kissed me,” he sings. Though there are traces of menace and doubt in the song’s trance-like, psychedelic aura, the environmental renewal that Moore describes lends itself to flourishing peace. Stream “Rewilding” below.

“Rewilding” isn’t just a Thurston Moore x Earth Day special, it’s the latest offering from his forthcoming album Samurai Walkman: Flow Critical Lucidity. He previously shared album cuts “Hypnogram” and “Isadora,” which arrived...

James Hamilton is an iconic chronicler of New York City culture, a photographer who, throughout his career, has captured the likes of Charles Mingus, Patti Smith, Lou Reed, David Lynch, Jean-Luc Godard, Meryl Streep, Alfred Hitchcock, Liza Minnelli, and Wes Anderson. Now, he gets the documentary treatment in the film “Uncropped,” directed by D.W. Young and executive-produced by Wes Anderson himself. IndieWire shares the exclusive trailer below.

“Uncropped” also turns its focus on the heyday of alternative print journalism in New York. Hamilton was best known for his photographs of the art and music scene in NYC throughout the ’70s and ’80s while working as a staffer at Crawdaddy, The New York Herald, Harper’s Bazaar, The Village Voice, and the New York Observer. The film also tracks his career and life beginning in his early days at Pratt in Brooklyn, then an apprenticeship where he learned how to shoot,...

Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth and Body/Head on Catherine Breillat and the music with Anne-Katrin Titze and 99 Records founder Ed Bahlman: “It was a real honour of my life to be in one of her films.”

In the first instalment with Kim Gordon on Catherine Breillat, we discuss the songs in Last Summer (L'Été Dernier) - Body/Head’s Tripping (Bill Nace and Kim Gordon), Sonic Youth’s Dirty Boots, and Léo Ferré’s Vingt Ans, and we are joined by music producer and 99 Records founder Ed Bahlman. Kim’s initial encounters with Breillat films are A Real Young Girl (Une Vraie Jeune Fille) and then 36 Fillette. We also touch on Kim’s latest work with French choreographer Dimitri Chamblas, Ed’s copy of the mastered cassette of their second album Bad Moon Rising Sonic Youth dropped off at 99, and a word on Brooks Headley’s Superiority Burger.

Hayley Williams and her Paramore band members have a tape they’d like to play for you. Not long after parting ways with Atlantic Records to become an independent rock band, Paramore is teasing a partnership with A24 to release a 16-track Stop Making Sense tribute album inspired by the life-altering album and concert performance by the Talking Heads. While details remain a mystery, the project teases “16 tracks from 16 artists.”

Paramore is singer Hayley Williams, guitarist Taylor York, and drummer Zac Farro. Recently, the band created a panic among its fanbase when rumors about them breaking up circulated online. The nail-biting occurred when the band removed its website and scrubbed its social media platforms. However, the band has no intention of parting ways—quite the opposite. In addition to announcing the Stop Making Sense tribute album, Paramore will support Taylor Swift on her sold-out Eras arena tour in 2024.

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Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien has given fans an update on his next solo album in a message that also calls for a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas.

In an Instagram post, O’Brien thanked his “little community” of fans and explained that he had needed a break. “I’m deep into my next record, and deep in the process,” he wrote. “I will share some more soon … from music to influences to gear .. all of it… it’s been and continues to be a journey..Sending love and warmth from me and Ziggy.”

Earlier in the message, O’Brien apologized for not commenting on the heightened Gaza conflict earlier. “Like so many of you I have found the events of October 7 and what has followed too awful for words .. anything that I have tried to write feels so utterly inadequate,” he said. “Ceasefire now. Return the hostages.

Bram Inscore, a songwriter, producer, and performer who worked with such artists as Beck and BTS, has died by suicide, according to his family. He was 41-years-old and no other details were made available.

“It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of our beloved Bram Inscore, who ended his life after a hard fought battle with depression,” read a statement from his family, wife and friends. “Bram was a ‘musician’s musician,’ a producer, composer and multi-in,strumentalist, who lent his talents to artists such as Beck, Troye Sivan, and BTS. Selfless as a human and generous as a collaborator, he ingeniously served the music but never his own ego. Deep compassion and dry wit were embedded into everything he did, though he never sought praise or approval. He was truly a unique spirit and though his soul has left his body, it will live forever in his music.

Sonic Youth have announced the official reissue of their lost bootleg, Walls Have Ears, set for release on February 9th, 2024. In honor of the announcement, the band has shared what is believed to be the first official recording of their fan favorite song “Expressway to Yr Skull.”

Previously released in 1986 as a 2xLP set that quickly went out of print, Walls Have Ears features recordings of three seminal Sonic Youth performances during the band’s second visit to the UK. A press release describes the bootleg as “not just a live album but an artful tapestry full of live experimentation with songs, between-song tape segues, darkness, humor and audio verité.”

The album is available for pre-order now, and will be sold digitally as well as on vinyl, CD, and cassette. A deluxe vinyl edition is available to pre-order, featuring exclusive materials including a previously-unreleased performance of “(She’s In a) Bad Mood.

Even if you don’t know James Hamilton’s name, you probably recognize some of his images. Over a career that has spanned seven decades and seen his work published in Harper’s Bazaar, The New York Observer, New York Magazine and The Village Voice, Hamilton has photographed music and film superstars, legendary directors, notorious criminals and powerful politicians, as well as wars, famines and revolutions.

Hamilton is also humble to a fault, making him a perfect focal subject for D.W. Young’s new documentary Uncropped. Ostensibly a biography of and tribute to Hamilton’s life and work, Uncropped is most interesting when it uses its subject as a bit of a Trojan horse. Yes, Uncropped achieves its goal of raising Hamilton’s profile and celebrating the genius within his work. But that’s probably only the level on which it’s third or fourth most successful — behind serving as...

Directed by D.W.Young, ’Uncropped’ rediscovers the work of a New York photographer billed as one of the great chroniclers of the cultural history of America

Vienna-based Autlook Filmsales has acquired world rights, excluding the US and Canada, for the feature-length documentary Uncropped, exec produced by Wes Anderson, in advance of the film receiving its world premiere as the Centerpiece presentation of the Doc NYC festival on November 11.

Directed by D.W. Young, whose credits includeThe Booksellers, the film rediscovers the work of James Hamilton, one of the great chroniclers of the cultural history of the US. Working as a...

Thurston Moore and Snail Mail’s Lindsey Jordan have teamed up for a new cover of Lou Reed’s “Satellite of Love.” Watch the performance below.

For the latest entry in Fender’s “Best of the Decades” ad series, the artists deliver a guitar-led version of the 1973 track, with Jordan’s chorused Vintera II ‘60s Stratocaster carrying the progression, and Moore’s Vintera II ‘70s Jaguar providing colorful accents over the top. Both clad in Reed-esque sunglasses, Jordan sings the majority of the tune, with Moore helping out for the “Harry, Mark, and John” lines.

For her part, Jordan keeps her performance rooted in the raw coolness of Reed’s usual vocal delivery, mostly hanging out around the bottom of her range. By the song’s outro (where Reed’s original presents a soundscape of backing vocals from David Bowie), Jordan opens up and lets out a few soaring melodic lines,...

Thurston Moore has offered an update on the “debilitating” health condition that forced him to cancel the book tour he had slated for this fall. Speaking in a new interview, the Sonic Youth co-founder said that he’s not too worried about the ailment, as “the prognosis is very good.”

The revelation came in a conversation with The New York Times published earlier this week, in which Moore explained that he has been suffering from a common heart rhythm abnormality called atrial fibrillation for several years. In the past, the condition has been manageable, but according to Moore: “This year, it became slightly concerning… I was finding myself at times to be so weak I could hardly walk around the neighborhood.”

Though Moore felt that he “could just power through it” in order to embark on the tour promoting his new memoir, Sonic Life, doctors felt otherwise and advised him not to fly.

Thurston Moore has opened up on the possibility of a Sonic Youth reunion, stating that it’s “something that’s always going to be on the table.”

The revelation comes in a new interview from Moore with The New York Times, regarding his forthcoming memoir, Sonic Life. When asked about the possibility of Sonic Youth getting back together, he didn’t seem thrilled with the prospect, but didn’t discount it entirely either.

“Everybody wants us to get back together,” he said. “I don’t foresee it happening because I think maybe it’s a little too unwieldy at this point.” Continuing, he explained that he’d “rather be like the Beatles and never get back together,” as he sees reunions as “a really typical and expected thing to do… that goes against the nature of what the band was.”

Nonetheless, he balanced out the potential cons with the possible pros,...

Having already proven their bona fides with both 1986’s Evol and 1987’s Sister, Sonic Youth delivered their most cohesive, accessible album to date with their 1988 opus Daydream Nation. Originally inspired by the ferocity of hardcore punk, the cerebral art rock of acts like the Velvet Underground and Public Image Ltd., and the avant-garde compositions of Glenn Branca, the album saw the four New York bohos sweeten their no-wave edge with anthemic songwriting.

Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo’s detuned guitars strum plaintively and hypnotically as Daydream Nation slowly shakes itself awake on “Teen Age Riot.” Bassist-singer Kim Gordon channels the Stooges’s eerie chants on 1969’s “We Will Fall” and even cribs from its lyrics: “Spirit, desire/We will fall,” she mumbles before the song’s dual-guitar riff tears the track apart.

“Teen Age Riot” is an articulation of the alternative nation—which saw Dinosaur Jr.’s lead noisemaker, J Mascis,...

Thurston Moore has canceled the book tour he’d planned in support of his upcoming memoir Sonic Life, citing a “debilitating” health condition.

“It utterly bereaves me to pass on the news that I have been advised by my medical team here in the UK to cancel my upcoming USA book tour,” the former Sonic Youth member wrote on Instagram Tuesday (October 10th). “For years I have been dealing with a longstanding health condition, though it has never seriously stopped me from touring and recording. Regardless it’s always been an underlying issue and as I reach my mid-60s this year it has become rather, and consistently, debilitating. After a recent consultation, my doctors have strongly advised against me flying anywhere under any circumstance until they get it all sorted out.”

Moore, now 65, has described Sonic Life as “the story of my childhood and teenage years as I fell...

Thurston Moore will be skipping a U.S. tour to promote his memoir, Sonic Life, due to a “debilitating” health condition.

“It utterly bereaves me to pass on the news that I have been advised by my medical team here in the UK to cancel my upcoming USA book tour,” he wrote in a letter to fans on Tuesday. “For years I have been dealing with a longstanding health condition, though it has never seriously stopped me from touring and recording. Regardless it’s always been an underlying issue and...

If you’re the Talking Heads, you may find yourself at the top of the Imax charts after the Toronto International Film Festival Imax screening of Stop Making Sense, the band’s legendary concert film. The Stop Making Sense 40th Anniversary TIFF screening, courtesy of A24, earned $640,839 and sold out 25 screens across 165 Imax markets in North America and the BFI Imax in London.

Fans lucky enough to attend the world premiere at Cineplex’s Scotiabank Imax Theatre in Toronto experienced a special Q&a live stream from TIFF, moderated by Spike Lee. The band’s four original members reunited for the event: David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, and Jerry Harrington.

“The unforgettable Stop Making Sense looks and sounds even more incredible in Imax, and we’re excited to share this event with TIFF and our audiences everywhere,” said CEO Rich Gelfond. “This further establishes our ability to deliver live...

Sonic Youth will release a remixed and remastered LP of their final US performance, titled Live in Brooklyn 2011, on August 18th via Silver Current Records and digitally on Goofin’.

The 2xLP, 2xCD, or 2xTape collection follows a 2020 archival release that included the 2011 East River waterfront performance, or “The Last Show” as it came to be known by fans. Though the band subsequently toured South America before confirming their dissolution in November that year, the New York event served as a fitting conclusion with the group’s hometown connections and surprising, career-spanning set. Pre-orders are ongoing.

In a statement, drummer Steve Shelley shared, “For the Williamsburg Waterfront show I wrote out the setlist to present to the band and it was a lot of material we hadn’t played in a while, a lot of deep cuts, so I wasn’t sure if everybody would feel like doing it. After worrying...

Taylor Swift is many things — a singer-songwriter, an actor, a filmmaker, even an honorary mayor — but she is not yet a published author. And yet, Swifties turned an anonymous book into a bestseller this week by pre-ordering the absolute shit out of it in mere speculation that it would be the pop star’s literary debut.

As Variety points out, publishing imprint Flatiron previously announced that a yet-to-be-revealed celebrity would be releasing a book in July that’s promised to be a “blockbuster.” Hardcovers are currently available to pre-order for $45 — pennies to devoted completist Swift fans. Despite its unglamorous placeholder title 4C Untitled Flatiron Nonfiction Summer 2023, it’s currently the No. 1 bestseller on Amazon’s book section and in Barnes & Noble’s “Coming Soon” section.

It’s not clear what, exactly, sparked rumors of Swift publishing a memoir, but leave it to Swifties to find hints in the fine print regardless: Apparently,...

Former Sonic Youth singer-guitarist Thurston Moore will tell his side of how the band came together in his long-promised autobiography, Sonic Life: A Memoir, due out in October.

“Sonic Life tells the story of my childhood and teenage years as I fell in love with music (for the most part unbridled rock & roll) and how it drove me to New York City, where I would co-found Sonic Youth,” he wrote in an Instagram post. “It’s an adventure that would take me around the globe throughout the 1980s, Nineties, and onward,...

Thurston Moore has contained “the whirlwind of experiences that being in Sonic Youth entailed” in his new memoir, Sonic Life, which arrives on October 24th via Doubleday Books in the US and Faber & Faber in the UK.

In an announcement shared via Moore’s socials, the lead singer and guitarist of Sonic Youth described his book as “the story of my childhood and teenage years as I fell in love with music (for the most part unbridled rock ’n’ roll) and how it drove me to New York City, where I would co-found Sonic Youth. It’s an adventure that would take me around the globe throughout the 1980s, ’90s, and onward, engaging with the magic music of visionaries, artists, and wild angels turning the world on its ear.”

“This book has been ages in the making, the product of intensive research and deep dives into my memories and emotions,...

A decade and a half after breaking up – and a year since reuniting – Be Your Own Pet have returned with an incendiary new song, “Hand Grenade.” “I’m not your victim,” frontwoman Jemina Pearl sings over punky, slashing guitars as her bandmates sing, “I’m not afraid.” The group shot the song’s shadowy and smoky video in Pearl’s basement, which matches the tune’s dark and resilient tone. She opens her eyes wide while singing, “I’m not your victim/I’m my own person. … I set myself free.

After sweeping the 95th Academy Awards with seven monumental wins for Everything Everywhere All At Once, A24 plans to release the Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense in 4K for a theatrical release! Director Jonathan Demme’s first concert film is my favorite concert experience ever captured on film. The phenomenal performance by the Talking Heads changed how I listen to music. I’ll never forget the first time I watched Stop Making Sense on my way to All Tomorrow’s Parties 2008, curated by My Bloody Valentine.

Stop Making Sense stars core band members David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, P-Funk Bernie Worrell, Alex Weir, Steve Scales, Lynn Mabry, and Edna Holt. Shot over three nights at Hollywood’s Pantages Theatre in December 1983, the elaborate set features memorable Talking Heads songs like “Psycho Killer,” “Life During Wartime,” “Found a Job,” “Slippery People,” Burning Down the House,” “Making Flippy Floppy,...

Gina Birch has been creating punk art her entire life—but she’s just getting started. What could be more hardcore than dropping your first solo album at 67? She became a legend with the Raincoats, the London punk band she started in 1977, four renegade women inventing their own kind of racket. But she’s got that same rebel spirit on her new solo debut I Play My Bass Loud, on Jack White’s Third Man Records. It’s a statement of purpose, and one of the year’s freshest, funniest rock albums so far.

Thurston Moore has a new album on the way, and he’s offering its first sample today with a massive new single, the seven-minute “Hypnogram.”

We still don’t know the title or release date of the ex-Sonic Youth member’s next solo release. But we do know that he arranged it all last year and it includes guitar, piano, and organ performances from his frequent collaborator James Sedwards. It also features his usual crew of backing musicians, including bassist Deb Googe (My Bloody Valentine), percussionist Jem Doulton (Róisín Murphy), and electronic musician Jon Leidecker (Negativland), with lyrics by poet Radieux Radio.

Mixed by London-based producer Margo Broom, “Hypnogram” has the moody, brooding atmosphere you expect from someone like Moore. “I’m closing my eyes to our lucid sleep/ Give me a signal when you find me,” he sings over spellbinding guitars that layer over the track’s gentle keys.

Patti Smith, Michael Stipe, Chris Stein, and many more artists have paid tribute to Tom Verlaine, the influential singer and guitarist for punk legends Television, who died following a “brief illness” at the age of 73.

Smith — Verlaine’s former partner and regular collaborator — posted a photograph of them together on Instagram. “This is a time when all seemed possible,” she captioned the Instagram post. “Farewell Tom, aloft the Omega.”

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“I have lost a hero,” Michael Stipe wrote,...

Léa Seydoux stars with Melvil Poupaud, Pascal Greggory, and Camille Leban Martins in Mia Hansen-Løve’s spectacular One Fine Morning (Un Beau Matin) Photo: Carole Bethuel / Les Films Pelléas, courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics

Mia Hansen-Løve once again turns the intimately personal into universally understood struggles and joys in her spectacular One Fine Morning (Un Beau Matin). Well-chosen costumes by Judith de Luze, detailed sets (production design by Mila Preli), and carefully selected locations in and around Paris (plus a trip to Normandy for a Second World War Veteran’s celebration) with all the in-between places in focus, give us the picture of full lives.

Mia Hansen-Løve with Anne-Katrin Titze: “Léa Seydoux, I always had her in mind for the role.”

Hansen-Løve brings us into the world of Sandra (Léa Seydoux), mother of 8-year-old Linn (Camille Leban Martins) and a widow, who works as a translator/interpreter. Her father Georg...

When Louis Feuillade’s “Les Vampires” premiered in 1915, escalating the war of attrition between French film companies Pathe and Gaumont — in the middle of the actual armed conflict of World War I — it wasn’t a given that narrative feature films would become the dominant format for cinematic storytelling. In the 1910s, serials were in. It was equally likely, and more economical, for filmmakers to string together hours of storytelling via 12-minute reels that would stand as individual episodes and end on a cliffhanger, prompting the audience to return to the theater next week to see how it all turns out. Film was still as much an emerging technology as it was an art form, one with various and uncertain business models that were being tested simultaneously. Feuillade has more in common with any director working in the Age of Streaming than with Fellini or Ford, and making a “Les Vampires...

Jamie Nares on integrating Thurston Moore’s music into the soundtrack of the spectacular Street: “I worked very closely with my sound designer, Bill Seery.” Photo: Nares Studio

Equipped with a high-definition camera and telephoto lens, Jamie Nares drove through the streets of New York in 2011 to film in six-second bursts the goings on. The footage then was slowed down and edited into a stream of floating street scenes, a moving snapshot of the hustle and bustle in the different neighbourhoods of the city. With our pandemic conditioned eyes, viewers today may notice no mask wearing.

Anne-Katrin Titze showing Jamie Nares a scene from Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen’s On The Town

There are pay phones and a lot of taxis. People still carry plastic bags with logos from shops and fewer than now have their glance fixed on the phone in hand. Food vendors and tourists, fire hydrants...

Jamie Nares and Thurston Moore holding up the hastily printed-out photos of the Harry Roskolenko chopped up death mask sculpture: “I called it The Poet Is A Book.” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

At the Ecstatic Peace Library Rock ’n’ Roll Round Table inside the Oak Room of The Algonquin on September 12, during the James Hamilton Linger On: Unseen Portraits of The Velvet Underground exhibition, music producer and 99 Records founder Ed Bahlman introduced me to Thurston Moore (co-founder with Eva Prinz of the Ecstatic Peace Library) and filmmaker/artist Jamie Nares (featured in Celine Danhier’s Blank City as James Nares).

Jamie Nares with Ed Bahlman and Anne-Katrin Titze on natural timing: “I’d say that the rhythm was the strongest characteristic of my guitar playing.”

In the first instalment with Jamie Nares we touch on Rome ’78, Pierpaolo Piccioli’s Valentino couture dress for Jamie, a party for Andy Warhol’s Athletes series,...

The third volume of the massive, ambitious, and unique project, For the Birds — in which hundreds of artists created new recordings inspired by birdsongs — has arrived today, July 29, with music from artists like the Beastie Boys’ AdRock and Wild Belle singer-songwriter Natalie Bergman.

AdRock’s contribution “Pasadena Parrots” clocks in at just under a minute and begins with some screeching and squawking that gives way to a rush of hardcore guitars peppered with some laser-like synths. Bergman, meanwhile, has turned in a sweet and charming tune, “The Little Bird,” that...

“Irma Vep” is a story of all different kinds of madness, from the patently absurd act of making movies to the equally absurd and manufactured process of trying to maintain one’s sense of self. So it’s only fitting that the series’ score, composed by guitarist and former Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore, feels a little hard to nail down. Sometimes pounding like a tension headache, sometimes beguiling and ancient (not so unlike a vampire), it always seems to fill up the scene and unbalance the audience’s relationship to Mira (Alicia Vikander), an American movie star who travels to Paris to remake the silent serial “Les Vampires” with a director (Vincent Macaigne) who is definitely not “Irma Vep” creator Olivier Assayas.

Moore has done bits of composing for film throughout his career; after Assayas used Sonic Youth’s “Tunic (Song for Karen)” in his original film version of “Irma Vep,...