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Sonic Youth to Break Up After Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore's Split?
- Posted on Nov 29th 2011 11:12AM by Kenneth Partridge
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That's the word from guitarist Lee Ranaldo, who told Rolling Stone that the group's recent South American performances were "the last shows for a while," adding, "I guess I'd just leave it at that."
Moore and Gordon shocked the indie-rock world on Oct. 14, when they announced they were splitting up after more than 25 years of marriage. The two co-founded Sonic Youth in the late '70s, forging a musical partnership that would yield more than a dozen highly influential (and highly noisy) albums.
Ranaldo -- who's gearing up to release his first-ever solo album, 'Between the Times and the Tides,' early next year on Matador -- said the pair's romantic travails had little affect on Sonic Youth's South American shows. Despite some "tiptoeing around and some different situations with the traveling," he said, the tour was a success, and he feels good about what lies ahead.
"I'm feeling optimistic about the future no matter what happens at this point," Ranaldo said. "I mean, every band runs its course. We've been together way longer than any of us ever imagined would happen, and it's been for the most part an incredibly pleasurable ride. There's still a lot of stuff we're going to continue to do. There's tons and tons of archival projects and things like that that are still going on, so there are so many ways in which we are tied to each other for the future both musically and in other ways."
"I'm just happy right now to let the future take its course, and I guess I'm kind of thankful that I've got this other project that kind of came about on its own," he added.
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What is all this about Lee releasing his first-ever solo album?? That is absolutely untrue. He might be releasing an album, but this is certainly not his first-ever Lee had released several solo albums already. Discography
Solo albums
From Here to Infinity (1987)
Scriptures of the Golden Eternity (1993) (Recorded 1988-1989)
Dirty Windows (1999) (Recorded 1991-95)
Amarillo Ramp (For Robert Smithson) (2000) (Recorded 1990-95)
Outside My Window The City Is Never Silent - A Bestiary (2002) (Recorded 1991-95)
Music For Stage And Screen (2004)
Ambient Loop For Vancouver (2006)
Maelstrom From Drift (2008)
I understand the need for generating hype to sell albums, but whoever wrote this artice is just plain uninformed.
Old news. But at this point they should change the name of the band to Sonic Aged.
November 30 2011 at 6:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyOld news. But at this point they should change the name of the band to Sonic Aged.
November 30 2011 at 6:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyOld news. But at this point they should change the name of the band to Sonic Aged.
November 30 2011 at 6:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyOld news. But at this point they should change the name of the band to Sonic Aged.
November 30 2011 at 6:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyOld Man goodrmansbooks keeps just rolling along,spamming a lame,tired joke that wasn't funny the first ime.
November 30 2011 at 6:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThe headline " Couple's Split Spell's end for Iconic Band?" is a statement, it does not require a question mark at the end .
What ever idiot wrote the headline should have started with a "Does the" or a "Will the".
Whoever wrote this headline should be able to get a job here in Cincinnati where the Cincinnati Enquirer newspaper falls over backwards hiring people with your journalistic abilities.
You're welcome at my house Kim
November 30 2011 at 4:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWhat? Who? Never heard of this crap. Why do I read this?
November 30 2011 at 4:26 PM Report abuse Permalink -2 rate up rate down ReplyThat's okay, they never heard of you, either.
November 30 2011 at 6:59 PM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down ReplySucks to hear this. Sonic Youth IS an Iconic band. They started the whole noise rock/indie rock that continues to persist today. They never really wrote music to appeal to the masses. They could if they wanted to, but they wouldn't be playing what they wanted to. Their sound is definitely not pedestrian-friendly. It's harsh, has dissonant chords, but they work wonderfully and the arrangement is great. The fact that the term Avant-Garde was even used to describe their sound shows lack of musical knowledge outside of Pop (which I mean popular, not the genre Pop) music. Listen to Teen Age Riot by these guys.
November 30 2011 at 3:43 PM Report abuse Permalink +4 rate up rate down Reply
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Your ignorance of pop music is appalling. Go listen to your Ray Conniff, Mitch Miller and Percy Faith albums.
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