Sonic 2008
 

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 yellow have been added to the list during 2008.
* items with a green star have been already released.
* prediction for 2008 release was wrong.


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 – Sonic Youth w/ Jim/Merzbow /Mats Gustafsson - Andre Sider Af Sonic Youth (CD, SYR, Out on August 4th)!
* Sonic Youth - Soundtracks Box Set (SYR) ?#
* Sonic Youth - Screaming Fields of Sonic Love (DVD)?#
* Sonic Youth - Master-Dick (CD, Goofin?)!
* Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation Live (DVD, ATP?)??
* V/A - ATP Film (DVD, Wrap Films)#?
* Enrique Morente and Sonic Youth - 'Oriente y Occidente' (mp3)!
* Sonic Youth: Sleeping Nights Awake (DVD, Project Moonshine)?
* Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (SHM-CD, Universal)!
* Sonic Youth - Goo (SHM-CD, Universal)!
* Sonic Youth - Dirty (SHM-CD, Universal)!


Various Sonics

* Gordon/Olson/Moore/Young/Shelley/Dilloway - Live in Denver (CDR, Ecstatic Peace) #
* Thurston Moore/Kim Gordon/Leslie Keffer (Cassette, Ecstatic Peace)!
* Rhys Chatham – Guitar Trio is My Life (2 out of 3 CD featuring Kim, Lee and Thurston, Table of Elements/Radium, out March 4th)!
* Inca Ore/Mirror/Dash (Split 12'',Ecstatic Peace)?
* Mirror/Dash - Untitled (CD Single limited to 100 copies sold at the "Come Across" art show)!
* V/A- AA Records Compilation Vol. 2 (LP featuring Mirror/Dash, AA Records)!
* V/A - Chamber Music (2CD/2LP featuring Text of Light W/ Steve, Fire Records)!
* Mirror/Dash / KIT - Nothing Fancy Just Music (Split 7")!
* V/A - X-Plural-US (LP featuring Mirror/Dash, Mystra)!





Kim

* Free Kitten - Inherit (Ecstatic Peace, out om May 20th)!
* Yoshimio - Yunnan Colorfree (CD+DVD, Commons)!

Steve

* Steve Shelley/Mike watt/Enrique Morente (SYR?)?
* Christina Rosenvinge - (CD featuring Steve)?


Lee

* Lee Ranaldo – Yes the solo album is in the works! (Ecstatic Peace)#
* Lee Ranaldo - Maelstrom from Drift (CD, Three Lobed Oscillation III subscription series)!
* Lee Ranaldo/Marina Rosenfeld/Nels Cline – Out Trios (CD, Atavistic)?
* Lee Ranaldo - All the Stars in the Sky (12", ?)!
* Todd Haynes- "I'm Not There" (Two DVDs collector's edition featuring an interview with Lee)!
* Lee Ranaldo - Countless Centuries Fled into the Distance Like So
Many Storms (12", TOE, July 22nd)!
* Lee Ranaldo, David Watson, Christian Marclay and Gunter Muller (LP, K-RAA-K)#
* V/A - The Noise Room (CD, Warp)!


Thurston

* Thurston Moore - Sensitive/Lethal (CD, No Fun Productions, out on April 10th)!
* 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 Productions?)?
* 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 (3 CD+DVD featuring a live recording with Thurston, Smalltown Superjazzz)!
* The Bark Haze - Basement Psychosis (Cassette, Ecstatic Peace)!
* Thurston Moore/Paul Flaherty - Slither (2) (7" on the Bored Fortress Club, Not Not Fun)!
* Dream/Aktion Unit - Live in Victoriaville Festival (CD, Victo)?
* Richard Kern - Extra action ( soundtrack for DVD, MDV)!
* Haruomi Hosono Strange Song Book - Tribute to Haruomi Hosono 2 (2CD+DVD)!
* Thurston Moore - Live from SoHo (mp3, iTunes)!
* Thurston Moore - 3 (Ecstatic Peace)?
* Chris Habib - More Hair Less Bush (DVD, Ecstatic Peace)?
* White Out (A double album featuring Thurston and Jim, Ecstatic Peace)#
* Thurston Moore - Built for Lovin' (LP, Lost Treasures Of The Underworld Records)!
* Thurston Moore & Zac Davis - Live (CDR, Maim & Disfigure)!
* V/A - Lucifer Rising Remix compilation (CD featuring Thurston, Arcanum Entertainment)!
* V/A - Is That So (CD featuring "The Unmitigated Felch" by Thurston, Meudiademorte and Tapetektoniks)!
* Religious Knives - The Door (CD produced by Thurston, Ecstatic Peace)!
* The Peeper - ST (CDR, MH)!
* Our Love Will Destroy The World / Bark Haze (split 7")#
* Thurston Moore (Lath-Cut LP, Alt/Vinyl)!
* Sudden Infant - Psychotic Einzelkind (CD features a remix by Thurston, Blossoming Noise)!
* Flaherty/Nace/Moore - S/T(CD, Ecstatic Peace)!
* Thurston Moore and Byron Coley - Meet The Meats (Choclate Monk)?
* Hat City Intuitive(Featuring Thurston and Gene Moore, Ecstatic Peace)#
* Northampton Wools (CD, Ecsstatic Peace)#



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, May 29, 2008)!

* Steve chick - Psychic Confusion (Omnibus Press, March 2008)#?

* V.A. Black Noise: A tribute to the late Steven Parrino (contributions by Thurston and Kim, Hard cover boxset, June 2007)!

* D.J. Spooky (Editor)-Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture - ("Audience" by SY on accompanied CD, MIT Press)!.

* Thurston Moore (Editor)-Party With Me Punker (Photos by Dave Markey and Jordan Schwartz)?

* V/A - Indie Travel Guide (featuring a chapter about NYC and NJ by Steve, Rockbuch)!


Exhibition:

* SONIC YOUTH etc. : SENSATIONAL FIX -
The catalogue, distributed by Verlag der Buchandlung Walther König and published by Museion and LiFE, will be available in German, Italian, French and English. Two 7-inch vinyl records are included in the publication. Each side contains a specially sound pice created by one of the member of the band.


* Come Across - water paintings by Kim at KS Art.

* No Fun Art Show curated by Thurston at KS Art.

* No Wave Art Show curated by Moore and Coley at KS Art.


Happy new year!

great news! thanks Moshe!

i'll have to start saving up then it looks like a good year to come!

fucking a! can't wait for the new lee solo & the biography.... can't believe no year punk broke though.

Thanks Moshe!
This will help greatly not to get caught off guard by this year's releases...

can't wait for sy new album...

Thanks a lot Moshe on the info. I noticed on the SY myspace that they have a track off of the Master-Dik EP (Beat on the Brat) and it said on the year it was released in 1987/2008. Possible re-issue of the Master-Dik EP?

Thank you Moshe, next year I am going to be very happy.

ohh wow, much much stuff i'm interested in. thanks.

drool...

Oh snaps! Remember a couple of months ago I started a thread about how they should reissue that? I hope it's true!

Yeah! Hopefully they'll reissue Sonic Death and Made In USA by the same time :)

i hope they make some good sy songs, have fun and make some money with it.

i'll keep looking for those side projects that interest me more than the pop thing.

and tour with sy! otherwise my chances of seeing any of them are very low.

plenty great stuff comming. cool thread.

thanks for reminder and keeping us update Moshe!

The Rhys Chatham Sound Nice as well as SYR8.

how about some american tour dates?

Thanks! I'll add it to the list.

Awesome that they're keeping the Goofin' label alive. I'm hoping this is a CD reissue, and not just a repress of the original 12". The 12" isn't THAT hard to score these days... so a CD reissue would be boss. Plus, like we've talked about in a thread I started a while ago, there was some awesome shit from this era that would fit in really well on a MASTER-DIK reissue, such as the alternate Ciccone single versions, and ****, maybe some live stuff. Ugh, I'm getting excited.

updated list:

Second day of the year and that one's already out now:

Jan 02, 2008
Brand New Cassette! Leslie Keffer live with Kim Gordon + Thurston Moore. Side K is Leslie and Kim duo live at The Flywheel in Easthampton, Massachusetts. Side T is Leslie and Thurston duo live at Bourbon Street in Columbus, Ohio. Limited and hand numbered.

 

Keffer Gordon Moore Cassette


In celebration of this amazing document, we're also offering this amazing Kim G design T shirt.

 

Ecstatic Peace Kim G Design Shirt



Dunno, I've kicked off the habit of being a completist somewhere in the last year. I'll probably wait a couple of weeks and then it's sold out.

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.