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" + "02.02.2010" + "

" + "SONIC YOUTH IN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL - TICKETS ON SALE" + "

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Sonic Youth announce upcoming shows in Spain and Portugal: SY will be in Barcelona April 18 at Razzmatazz and Madrid April 19 at La Riviera. Tickets at: www.livenation.es, www.ticketmaster.es +34 902 15 00 25. www.servicaixa.com +34 902 33 22 11. The 22nd will be in Lisbon at the Coliseum

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" + "01.28.2010" + "

" + "SENSATIONAL FIX CATALOG: SECOND EDITON IN FEBRUARY" + "

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The first edition of the \'Sonic Youth, etc : Sensational Fix\' catalog, the giant \"official publication\" of the touring art show, sold out so quickly that few copies made it to USA shores. The second edition should go on sale in February, and will definitely find it\'s way into better bookshops. The list price is

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" + "01.25.2010" + "

" + "SONIC YOUTH ETC.: SENSATIONAL FIX - MADRID" + "

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The museum exhibition SONIC YOUTH ETC. : SENSATIONAL FIX focuses on the multidisciplinary activities of Sonic Youth since the band\'s formation in 1981. It features the band\'s collaborations with visual artists, filmmakers, designers and musicians, as well as a choice of other works selected by the band.

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" + "01.15.2010" + "

" + "SONIC YOUTH: INNOVATORS IN MUSIC" + "

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Sonic Youth will be featured on the Innovators in Music program on Bravo Canada, Feb 11. Others featured in this series are Steve Earle, Levon Helm, Mickey Hart, Billy Brag and Dave Stewart.

From bravo.ca: INNOVATORS IN MUSIC is a new series of documentary profiles on six dynamic musicians from a

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" + "01.10.2010" + "

" + "THE ETERNAL 120 GRAM VINYL" + "

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From Matador: There is now a 120 gram version of the Eternal dbl LP at a lower cost. It still looks and feels really nice; Here are the differences:

- 120 gram RTI vinyl instead of 180 - No special varnishes on the gatefold - No sticker inside

Still has the high-quality

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" + "01.07.2010" + "

" + "K + T JOIN PLASTIC ONO BAND LIVE FEB 16- ALSO ON 15th" + "

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Kim and Thurston, amongst other special guests, will perform live February 16 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music with the Plastic Ono Band. According to imaginepeace.com:

\"Launched in 1969 with the single “Give Peace a Chance”, PLASTIC ONO BAND is known worldwide for its avant-garde music, film, art and activism. Early ’70s albums by

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" + "01.06.2010" + "

" + "LEE AND THURSTON NYC GALLERY OPENINGS" + "

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Lee and Thurston each have gallery shows opening in NYC Friday January 15. Lee has \"A Random Collection of Cells\", a series of works on paper at the Hogar Collection in Williamsburg. Thurston has the Ecstatic Peace Poetry Journal - Issue #10 at White Columns in Manhattan.

According to The Hogar Collection: \"[We

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" + "10.02.2009" + "

" + "SILVER SESSIONS AND DOWNLOADS" + "

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Sonic Youth\'s 1998 noise opus \'Silver Sessions\' is back in print after a lenghty absence. As Thurston describes in the liner notes: \"(we) turned every amp we owned on to 10+ and leaned as many guitars and basses we could plug in against them and they roared/HOWLED like airplanes burning over the pacific\" This reissue

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" + "10.01.2009" + "

" + "‘STAR POWER’ ACOUSTIC SINGLE" + "

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An acoustic version of the SY classic \'Star Power\' is now available via download. This version was recorded over the summer in Portland, Oregon between tour dates and was featured in the television program Gossip Girl on October 12.

The song is available for lossless download directly from Sonic Youth via the sonicyouth.com store

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" + "09.30.2009" + "

" + "SY ON BAD BONN COMP" + "

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Sonic Youth will be appearing on a new comp related to the Bad Bonn Kilbi Festival. The SY cut is a performance of the song No Way which takes a turn for the weird when the band\'s guitar amps overwhelm the available electrical power. The album is now available for preorder.

According to the

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" + "09.23.2009" + "

" + "SONIC YOUTH ITUNES LIVE FROM SOHO" + "

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iTunes will release an EP of songs from the band\'s performance at the Apple Store in Soho. Release is scheduled for November 10, with the exception of the UK where it was released October 26. The EP consists of: Audio- Sacred Trickster, Antenna, Leaky Lifeboat (For Gregory Corso), and Anti-Orgasm, and Video- Sacred Trickster and

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" + "09.03.2009" + "

" + "LEE AND THURSTON SIGNATURE GUITARS" + "

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Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore signature model Fender Jazzmaster guitars will be available in stores July 1. The guitars reflect decades of road-tested customization knowledge. According to the Fender site: \"Lee and Thurston have always heavily modified their Jazzmaster guitars- removing all extraneous controls- simplifying and stripping them back to their essence, leaving just a

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" + "09.01.2009" + "

" + "ECSTATIC PEACE LIBRARY" + "

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From the Los Angeles Times:

\"This weekend, Sonic Youth\'s Thurston Moore announced the upcoming launch of Ecstatic Peace Library, a boutique publisher of art books to debut in 2010. Catalogs of the initial releases are being distributed at this weekend\'s New York Art Book Fair and will be available from the publisher\'s

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" + "07.01.2009" + "

" + "THURSTON ON SOUNDCHECK ON WNYC" + "

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Thurston recently discussed \'Grunge\' on WNYC. Check the archive.

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" + "06.30.2009" + "

" + "SY IN THE ATP FILM" + "

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Sonic Youth are one of many artists included in the All Tomorrow\'s Parties Film, which is on a UK tour from 23 October 2009, prior to the DVD release on 2 November 2009. Condensing 800 hours of footage from 200 contributors including fans and musicians that have attended recent festivals, All Tomorrow\'s Parties is the result

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" + "06.26.2009" + "

" + "SONIC YOUTH: THE ETERNAL - OUT NOW" + "

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Sonic Youth\'s 16th album, \'The Eternal\', will be released on vinyl, compact disc, and digital album by Matador Records on June 9. Produced by John Agnello and the band, \'The Eternal\' not only marks Sonic Youth\'s return to the independent label sphere (titles on their own SYR label excepted)

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" + "06.22.2009" + "

" + "SOLO JAMMAGE ON DISC" + "

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Thurston appears on the new White Out record, as does Jim O\'Rourke. Lee is on the new My Cat is an Alien record.

White Out\'s \'Senso\' is a live recording from two shows at the heralded and, sadly shut, Tonic club in NYC December 18, 2004. It was a lovely evening when O\'Rourke and Moore, both

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" + "06.21.2009" + "

" + "NO SETLIST: PIECES OF A SONIC LIFE" + "

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SY superfan Jenn Benningfield has published her first book, entitled \'No Setlist: Pieces of a Sonic Life\'. Her description:

\'What do you do when you see your favorite band perform live 40 times over 11 years? If you\'re an aspiring author like Jenn Benningfield, you write a book about it. No Setlist

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" + "06.04.2009" + "

" + "SY ON FALLON - WATCH IT" + "

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On June 22nd, 2009 Sonic Youth tore it up on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Here\'s the video evidence:

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" + "06.04.2009" + "

" + "SONIC YOUTH ON LETTERMAN" + "

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Sonic Youth performed on the David Letterman show Wednesday June 10. Scope it:

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