i've seen pics of t wearing that shirt.

Chatham is doing his 100 Guitar piece in Williamsport PA in May supposedly...

ahh! leslie keffer is awesome!!!

I can't wait for the new sonic youth album. I hope it goes back up to the quality Sonic Nurse had. Also I'm really anticipating Lee's singer/songwriter record.

this is all pretty fucking exciting. i'm getting one of those tshirts immediately. thanks moshe!

Even if a new big studio doesn't come out, that will be an amazing year for SY releases!

I wonder, does SYR 8 as "noisiest SYR yet" include noisier than the Silver Sessions or not??

that's on SKR, it does not count as SYR :p:D

Thanks! My completism doesn't extend to garments, but the cassette's been ordered.

:) just ordered mine too

SYR8 sounds lovely.

I hope the sndtrk box is for reals.

if interested in updating, the bark haze disc from the three lobed "oscillation iii" series titled "one for merz" and will be out in the first mailing (targeted for late february).

i think the next album could be much more experimental than rather ripped, with longer sings and more jams... we're at a similar point now to when SY were making washing machine - they've just done a relatively "pop" album in EJTNS, thurstons done a fairly song based solo album - resulting in thurston having less full songs to bring to the band, meaning the album will be more from the band as a whole, perhaps resulting in something more similar to washing machine. which would be welcome as far as i'm concerned.

either that or theyre still obsessed with writing pop songs and will do another album like that...

interesting perspective... i think i might agree though i think they really started to stretch out with guitar effects and experimenting with longer jams around EJST&NS, Washing Machine and ATL, and then parred down after the infamous theft to now. I dunno, i don't really see them straying away from what they've been doing in the last 3 albums, for them to stretch out like they did on Washing Machine now would to me be kinda daring (though i don't know why) move in a way, that would be left for something like for a SYR release. but then again you never know from SY.

Actually, Id quite like them to do a really bad album, thats basically unlistenable. From Murray Street, through Sonic Nurse to Rather Ripped, thats a pretty consistant run of top class albums, its about time they embarassed themselves again...

Updated:

The tradition goes on!
After the 2005, 2006 and 2007 predictions, here is a thread
which will try to foresee all sonic related releases in the coming year.

Some of the items are confirmed and some are only rumored.
Here is a legend that can help you know how solid the information on every single item is:

!= Confirmed
#= probably will happen this year
?= I dreamed I dream

Items in red have been added to the list during 2008.


Sonic Youth

* Sonic Youth - New album?
* Sonic Youth - Hits Are For Squares (CD, Hear Music)!
* Sonic Youth - SYR 7 - J'Accuse Ted Hughes+ Unreleased studio session (12”, SYR)!
* Sonic Youth- SYR 8 – The nosiest of all syr’s!!! (SYR)!
* Sonic Youth - Soundtracks Box Set (SYR) ?#
* Sonic Youth - Screaming Fields of Sonic Love (DVD)#
* Sonic Youth - Mater-Dick (Goofin?)?

Various Sonics

* Gordon/Olson/Moore/Young/Shelly/Dilloway - Live in Denver (CDR, Ecstatic Peace) #
* Thurston Moore/Kim Gordon/Leslie Keffer (Cassette, Ecstatic Peace)!
* Rhys Chatham – Guitar Trio is My Life (2 ot of 3 CD featuring Kim, Lee and Thurston, Table of Elements/Radium, out March 4th)!


Kim

* Free Kitten (Ecstatic Peace, spring release)!

Steve

* Steve Shelly/Mike watt/Enrique Morente (SYR?)?

Lee

* Lee Ranaldo – Yes the solo album is in the works! (Ecstatic Peace)#
* Lee Ranaldo - (CD, Three Lobed Oscillation III subscription series)!
* Lee Ranaldo/Marina Rosenfeld/Nels Cline – Out Trios (CD, Atavistic)?

Thurston

* Thurston Moore - Sensitive/Lethal (CD, No Fun Productions)!
* The Bark Haze - One for Merz (CD, Three Lobed Oscillation III subscription series)!
* The Bark Haze/ Traum – Monolith 2 ( CD/LP, Music Fellowship)!
* College Girls Gone Wild (CDR, Ecstatic Peace)#
* Original Silence – The Second Original Silence (CD, Smalltown Superjazzz, early 2008)!
* Original Silence – The Third Original Silence (LP or Cassette, Smalltown Superjazzz)!
* Thurston Moore/Prurient (CD?, Hospital Prudctions?)?
* Thurston Moore/Jad Fair/Yamantaka Eye (CD?, Ecstatic Peace)?
* Diskaholics Anonymous Trio –S/T reissue (CD, Smalltown Superjazzz)!
* Chris Habib - Diskaholics Anonymous Trio (DVD, Ecstatic Peace?)?
* Thurston Moore (7" in 10 singles box set, Ecstatic Peace)#
* The Thing - Now and forever (Box Set including a live recording with Thurston)!
* The Bark Haze (Cassette, Ecstatic Peace)!
* Thutston Moore (split 7" on the Bored Fortress Club, Not Not Fun)!

Books

* David Browne - Goodbye 20th Century: A Biography of Sonic Youth
(Hardcover, Da Capo Press, May 26, 2008)!

* Thurston Moore & Byron Coley - No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York. 1976-1980 (Hardcover, Abrams Image, June 1, 2008)!

* Peter Wild (Editor)-The Empty Page: Fiction Inspired by "Sonic Youth"
(Paperback, Serpent's Tail, 27 Mar 2008)!

* Steve chick - Bad Moon Rising
(Omnibus Press, March 2008)#?

Exhibition:

* Lieu international des Formes Emergentes de Saint Nazaire Musueum and
Museïon de Bozano are co-producingt he first international exhibition dedicated to Sonic Youth.
Collaborations engaged by the band with visual artists, directors, poets or performers
will be in the limelight.


Happy new year!

What is "Hits Are For Squares"? Is it a best of?

that's happened already.

it's called rather ripped.

This might come out too this year on Victo Records:

Dream/Aktion Unit (Moore, Lee, Flaherty, Nace, Baczkowski, Heyner, Yeh, Tremaine, Corsano) 5/21/05 at Victo Fest in Victoriaville, Quebec

Ah, you have credible info on that one, Moshe? They never turned the ones of Thurston w/ Keiji Haino or the one of Thurston w/ Christina Carter into official releases... not that everyone doesn't already have those as a bootleg of course, but still.

I guess that one of The Thing w/ Thurston must be from when he played with them in Norway in summer 2005? I'd be interested in hearing that, but not so much in a whole boxset I guess.