Sonic 2009
 

As in previous years (see the 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 predictions) this thread will try to foresee all sonic related releases coming in 2009 . Any additions are welcome.


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 2009.
* items in green have been already released.
* prediction for items in blue for a 2009 release was wrong.


Sonic Youth

* Sonic Youth - The Eternal (CD/2LP, Matador)!
* Sonic Youth - Live at Battery Park, NYC (LP, Matador)!
* Sonic Youth - Soundtracks Series Vol. 1: Made in USA + Spinhead Sessions (2CD)!
* Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation Live (DVD, ATP?)!#
* Sonic Youth - Screaming Fields of Sonic Love (DVD)?#
* V/A - ATP Film (DVD, Wrap Films)!
* V/A - From The Basement (DVD, Eagle Rock Entertainment)!
* Sonic Youth/Beck - Pay No Mind/Gree Light (Split 7", Matador)!
* Jay Reatard/Sonic Youth - Hang Them All/No Garage (Split 7", Matador)!


Various Sonics

* Gordon/Olson/Moore/Young/Shelley/Dilloway - Live in Denver (CDR, Ecstatic Peace) #
* Inca Ore/Mirror/Dash (Split 12'',Ecstatic Peace)?
* Wednesday at A's (Documentary featuring Kim, Lee and Thurston)!
* V/A- Sensational Fix Zine #1 - Silence


Lee

* Lee Ranaldo – The solo album is still in the works a handful of songs have been written (Ecstatic Peace)#
* Lee Ranaldo/Marina Rosenfeld/Nels Cline – Out Trios (CD, Atavistic)?
* Lee Ranaldo, David Watson, Christian Marclay and Gunter Muller (2LP? K-RAA-K)!
* Glacial Trio (LP, Label tba)!
* Augusta Palmer – The Hand of Fativa (DVD)?
* Zeitkratzer - (cd featuring collborations with Lee and Jim, Zeitkratzer Records)!

Steve

* Anna Ternheim - Leaving on a mayday (CD, Universal)!

Thurston

* Thurston Moore – New solo album (titled 3?) (Ecstatic Peace)?
* Thurston Moore (7" in 10 singles box set, Ecstatic Peace)#
* Thurston Moore (Lath-Cut LP, Alt/Vinyl)!
* Thurston Moore/Prurient (LP, Ecstatic Peace)!
* Thurston Moore and Byron Coley - Meet The Meats (LP, Chocolate Monk)?
* Thurston Moore Quartet – The Roadhouse Session Vol. 1 (CD reissue, Ecstatic Peace)!#
* Castings/Thurston Moore (7” limited to 300 copies, part of the Passeridae subscription Series, Sound & Fury Records)!
* Thurston Moore/Jad Fair/Yamantaka Eye (CD?, Ecstatic Peace)#
* College Girls Gone Wild (CDR, Ecstatic Peace)?#
* Original Silence – The Third Original Silence (CD, Smalltown Superjazzz)!
* Diskaholics Anonymous Trio –S/T reissue (CD, Smalltown Superjazzz)!
* Dream/Aktion Unit - Live in Victoriaville Festival (CD, Victo)?
* White Out - Senso (A double album featuring Thurston and Jim, Ecstatic Peace)!#
* Hat City Intuitive (Featuring Thurston and Gene Moore, Ecstatic Peace)!
* Northampton Wools (CD, Ecstatic Peace)!
* Chris Habib - More Hair Less Bush (DVD, Ecstatic Peace)?
* Original Silence - TBA (Live at OYA festival 2008, TBA)#
* Thurston Moore -TBA (CS, Monorail Trespassing)!#
* Thurston Moore/Kommissar Hjuler und Mama Bear (Split CS, Goaty Tapes)!
* Llick Your Idols (DVD featuring Thurson, MDV)!





Books


* Thurston Moore (Editor)-Party With Me Punker (Photos by Dave Markey and Jordan Schwartz)!
* David Browne - Goodbye 20th Century: A Biography of Sonic Youth (Paperback U.S. Edition, May 2009)!
* Peter Wild (Editor)-Noise: Fiction Inspired by "Sonic Youth" (Paperback, Harper Perennial (January 6, 2009)!


Exhibition:

* SONIC YOUTH etc. : SENSATIONAL FIX – Next up are Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Germany (31 January to 26 April 2009), The Museum of Malmo, Sweden (from May 29 to September 20 2009).

Happy new year!

Made In Usa Reissue Oh My God

Seriously, I'm so happy about this. I can't belive it will be a 2CD reissue. That's so unexpected and amazing. Probably the last record I expected to see reissued in their discography. When? When? When?

i can't wait for the "party with me punker" book. i wish "the screaming fields.." dvd would get released this year along with the lee ranaldo solo album.

nice, i hope these all get released.

They now need to reissue Sonic Death. Seriously Moshe, you should talk them about this...

daydream nation live dvd is what i'm really looking for, beside new sonic album.
new solo album by T won't happen probably, maybe next year.
what about sleeping nights awake? no info?

thanks Moshe. You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Moshe again. sorry.

Same here. sleeping nights awake probably won't happen The daydream DVD probably will.

oooooooohhhhh!! this three babys will make 2009 more special! beside the others releases..."i'll be at my fucking window waiting for them, yes i will!!"
thanks Moshe!

* Sonic Youth - New album recorded by John Agnello in Echo Canyon West, NJ (CD/LP, Matador)!
* Diskaholics Anonymous Trio –S/T reissue (CD, Smalltown Superjazzz)
* White Out (A double album featuring Thurston and Jim, Ecstatic Peace)!

:eek: :eek: :eek:

that is AWESOME!


two discs, byron coley must've had to work really hard to think up all those titles...

I'm speechless.

Bravo.

ha!

I wonder if DN DVD is going to be live show from one gig, or is it going to be DN DVD mixed from more gigs then one. is it going to be from Teenage Riot to Trilogy order? I am looking forward this one anyway.

I have Made In USA so I am grand with that, but what is Spinhead Sessions? and that is confirmed yeah? would be nice if Screaming come out on DVD. does Lee´s album will ever see the light? Thurston´s new proper solo this year? I do not think so...

looking forward to everything. I will try to get most of the main stuff.

in connection to various stuff I know it will be much more of it and that will be hard to checking out.

thanks!
(ehrmmm and thanks for no red light)

yes, but what is Spinhead Sessions?

Spinhead is the name of the studio where MADE IN USA was recorded, so I'm guessing "Spinhead Sessions" means all the leftovers from that session that didnt make it on the original album.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Moshe again.

oh yeah, I forgot....I am really looking forward to ATP one as well.

thanks for that Spinhead hint. yes so it must be outtakes from MADE IN USA recording.

o.j.'s glove or what?

Recorded almost 10 years before the OJ trial.

And don't forget the SENSATIONAL FIX book + 2x7" !

Many thanks Moshe, good to hear Made In USA is getting reissued, and more interesting is the ' Soundtracks Series VOL. 1 ' part, meaning we can expect other volumes and other soundtracks (Demonlover etc) to appear? Can anyone tell me what exactly the spinhead sessions were?

I thought it was already released in 2008.

i already have "made in the usa", so i will have to check out what extras there are before i think about buying it again.

the only reissues of the albums i bought is the "daydream nation" one. i still can't get myself to spend 30 bucks a piece for the "dirty" or "goo" deluxe editions.

well Dirty is worth to check it out. 2nd. disc contains interesting, bit different versions of Dirty songs.

Chris Habib - More Hair Less Bush (DVD, Ecstatic Peace)? - ?

http://www.citypaper.com/arts/story.asp?id=16108

Byron Coley / No More Bush Tour

Byron Coley

By Marc Masters

Byron Coley is best known as a pioneering rock critic for Spin, The Wire, and the legendary Forced Exposure. But he's also been writing poems for decades, often for a journal edited by longtime friend Thurston Moore. In 2003, Coley and Moore led a revolving tour of poets and musicians ranting against the Bush administration, dubbed "More Hair Less Bush." Now, as George W. Bush's departure looms, Coley has concocted a sequel--"No More Bush"--with another cavalcade of artists who "honk the horn of freedom with both hands." Said honkers include guitar wizard Jack Rose, noise magician Karl Bauer (aka Axolotl), and avant-folk duo MV/EE, along with poets such as Valerie Webber and Charles Plymell. Coley also adds new participants at each stop, from Mike Watt to Loren Connors to Damon Krukowski. When No More Bush hits Tarantula Hill on Friday, Aug. 8, exclusives will include local poet Roxie Powell.
City Paper: How did the first tour arise, and why did you decide to do it again?
Byron Coley: Thurston and I were talking about how much we hated Bush. [laughs] And we got the idea of doing some shows where we make fun of Bush. Now, since Bush will be gone soon, we thought we should get our last licks in. So it's a celebration of what we hope is the end of this era. Also, traditionally in the last season of a presidency, people start to feel nostalgic, regardless of how much they hate the guy. So we want remind people never to forget [how bad it's been]. But the vibe of the shows tends to be pretty convivial. It's usually 10 to 20 minutes per reading and 20 to 25 minutes per musical set. I encourage people to give it their best for a short period of time. Rather than try to set up and sustain a mood, let's blast a mood out there, see how high we can get it, and then stop.
CP: Do you suggest any particular political content?
BC: I don't tell people what to do--I just tell them how long they can do it. But there's some material specifically made for this. Valerie, Thurston, and I write this pre-haiku form of Japanese poetry called tanka. Usually we pick a band and write reviews of their full discography in tanka form, but this time we took George Bush's iPod playlist, and we wrote tanka about that. Those poems are really mean. Thurston wrote some Laura Bush stuff that made my jaw drop. [laughs]
I personally was so upset early in this decade by what was going on that I wrote a lot of anti-Bush and anti-Cheney poetry, much of which was of a very graphic sexual nature, but wildly unattractive. I've got a poem about some Iraqis who go inside a cave, and it turns out to be the interior of Dick Cheney's penis. That's always a crowd-pleaser when I can pull it off.
CP: How did you get John Morton [former member of legendary Cleveland noise punks Electric Eels] involved?
BC: [At the time of the first tour] he was living in Brooklyn, and 9/11 affected him deeply. He and I traded a bunch of poetry online, and he did some unbelievable "Fuck Bush" tanka. So we had him perform at Tonic in New York, where he read, played, and then disrobed. This time, he's going to play guitar and theremin in a duo with Bill Nace, and read more anti-Bush tanka. But I never know for sure which way he's going to go. A lot of the performers are like that. We had Gary Panter read in New York, and he read a passage from the Canterbury Tales in an old English accent, really fast. People were pretty baffled. This time, in Philadelphia, I think I've convinced Charles Burns to pull out his "Johnny 23" routine, which is kind of his Burroughs tribute. When he used to do it in San Francisco, he would go up on stage in a mask with a tape recorder hanging around his neck with cut-up poetry on it, and he'd alternate reading and playing the tape.
CP: How do you think being a writer has been affected by the recent political climate?
BC: The weirdest thing is how Americans are viewed internationally. You're expected to prove that you're not part of the ruling party before people are willing to give you any kind of access to stuff. I've noticed that especially when I travel abroad. Also, people here have seemed to be toning stuff down, because there is a Big Brother feel to things. It seems all you have to do is use a particular combination of keywords, and suddenly you're no longer under the radar. Have you felt that at all?
CP: Yes, but I was also thinking about how print has changed, especially in the underground. Could there even be a Forced Exposure now?
BC: Well, the music industry is on its way out. They made some decisions in the 1990s that were suicidal. They never understood the value of good packaging as a value-added kind of thing, rather than something disposable. And when they got rid of that, they lost the ability to sell something as a commodity. A magazine like Forced Exposure could exist any time, though. I don't know how popular it would be, but you just need a couple of knuckleheads in their 20s to do it. It's the kind of thing you can do for a while, and then you either burn out or you become a parody of anything interesting that you were doing initially.
CP: Do you think it's weird that there's not more political stuff happening in the writing and music compared to, say, the Reagan years?
BC: It is bizarre. The Reagan thing was so overwhelming, but in retrospect he seems much more benign than the current guys. I think people just feel beaten down by the inevitability of what's going on now. At the same time, the manipulation continues to get more and more sophisticated. They play these patriotic cards in weird ways that seem to be very effective. Anything you say against a politician is painted as a personal attack on some high school dropout in Iraq. Anybody would feel bad for that guy, but I'm not the one who sent him there.
The media machine is just so sophisticated and instantaneous that it makes it difficult to get traction with an alternate narrative. There are some that do--[Stephen] Colbert, [Keith] Olbermann. But they're sort of the loyal opposition. They're predictable and acceptable as rage valves. There's not much going on right now that's really random and freaks people out. When you go back and look at the Weather Underground or the Days of Rage, those were crazy, unpredictable events that really shook people up. Because it was not clear what they wanted or what they were even against. It's really hard to do something that surprising now--to do anything that a computer has not already predicted.

Sounds good.

My constitution is ready for some new Sonic Youth medicine this year, I am hopeful it might even be a cure

2 DVD in one year ?
Are you serious ?
Man, it's Sonic Youth, not U2 or the Red Hot !!!;)

A Daydream Nation live DVD would ****ing rock.

im just glad that they decided to record again and hopefully more art will proceed i mean i loved rather ripped for what it was but damn

http://www.johnagnello.com/index.php?sitesection=news

It's a full on Christmas time!
Hey everyone, I hope this posting finds you well. This has been a crazy end of season. I haven't posted since mid November and it seems like I haven't had a spare moment to even think about it.

Where to start! Well in mid-November, I started working on the new Sonic Youth record. We started tracking at the wonderful, Echo Canon West, the band's recording facility. We have been working in short 2-3 day stretches and we are now breaking for Christmas. The album is now taking shape and will be awesome. I love working with them. It's crazy being in the same room with them when we're doing playbacks! I will have more updates

daaaaaaaaaaaaaamn

(Coughs)

Uhm....hey...baby...I'm like...really tall and stuff.

Thanks Moshe!!

Man, I can't wait for that Lee solo action....the Thurston, Jad Fair, and Eye cd should be pretty cool too.

added:

* Zeitkratzer - (cd featuring collborations with Lee and Jim, Zeitkratzer Records)!

atsonicpark: ghost whisperer... ghosts are very lucky. or not?

"Spinhead" is also a 16-minute instrumental piece they made during the Madi in USA sessions. I found it on the web a few years ago!