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Sonic Youth's Frontman Penned Adult Movie Scores
January 19, 2008 02:01:37One more member of Sonic Youth has joined a film project. While his band mate Kim Gordon is making a transition to become an actress, guitarist Thurston Moore prefers to stay behind a film score.
Moore is lending his songwriting talent to an adult movie called 'Extra Action (And Extra Hardcore)' which DVD is due to be out in U.S. on March 18. Richard Kern who has directed many of Sonic Youth's music videos have sat as the director of the MVD movie which "documents 60 amateur women (unpretentious, unadorned and undressed) set to an original musical score by Thurston Moore."
Sonic Youth to Release "Celebrity" Compilation
June 19, 2007 01:06:21
For 2007 project, Sonic Youth will release a compilation album that needs a little help from their celebrity friends. The alternative rock band will ask artists ranging from Wilco's frontman Jeff Tweedy to Michelle Williams to pick their favorite songs from Youth's discography.
Guitarist Thurston Moore explained the concept. "We sort of devised this idea of a Sonic Youth record where we asked all these different people to choose their favorite song, people like artists and actors and other musicians and what have you. So all these people, from Jeff Tweedy to Beck to Marc Jacobs to Portia de Rossi to Michelle Williams, they all chose their favorite songs and wrote a little thing about it."
Masterworks Added to National Recording Registry
April 12, 2006 12:04:40
50 recordings by veteran artists, like Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Wonder and B.B. King, are being added to the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress. Why those masterworks and not the others? It is all because the recordings are considered to be "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
As of Wonder, he makes the list with his 1976 double album, "Songs in the Key of Life", while Hendrix's "Are You Experienced?", which was hailed as one of the "most groundbreaking guitar albums of the rock era, leads the newcomers. Music legend B.B. King is recognized for his legendary 1965 live concert album, "Live at the Regal".
Sonic Youth Principals to Appear on Gilmore Girls
April 07, 2006 03:04:06
The principals of rock group Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon plus their daughter Coco, will all make an appearance on the season finale of the WB drama "Gilmore Girls". There they reportedly will perform an acoustic version of the new song "What a Waste", which can be found on the band's next album "Rather Ripped," which will hit market June 13 via Geffen.
The show, taped Friday April 7, 2006 in Los Angeles, will be aired May 9 later this year. In related news, Moore also has been chosen to curate the Nightmare Before Christmas edition of the All Tomorrow's Parties festival, held December 8-10 later this year in Somerset, England. Set to perform at the event is Iggy Pop and The Stooges, with full lineup will be announced in the coming months.
Pearl Jam's Itinerary
April 06, 2006 01:04:06
Has yet completed the first leg of their North American tour, which will take place June 3rd later this year, Pearl Jam has set additional tour schedule. The music act has planned to return to the road June 23 in Pittsburgh with fourteen dates are set for the second leg through a July 22 show at the Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Wash.
The latter gig reportedly will be "an evening with" Pearl Jam and thus won't feature an opening act. However, fans will be treated with performance from Sonic Youth who is slated to support on all but the first two second leg shows, which will boast a performance by former Guided By Voices frontman Robert Pollard.
