With my mloody valentine curating the 2009 Nightmare Before Christmas ATP event you can expect a nice lineup. On the bill are artists like Sonic Youth, A Place to Bury Strangers, the hero’s from Sun Ra Arkestra (ZXZW 2008), Primal Scream and De La Soul. Incubate Erik will visit the festival. Expect some blog updates [...]
ATP Nightmare Before Christmas day by day review on Inlog.org
November 30, 2009
New Burroughs Documentary with Genesis P-Orridge, Sonic Youth, Iggy Pop and many others
August 31, 2009
This just might be the best documentary to come out this year.The voice or the narrator is Peter Weller, also known for his impersonation of Paul Verhoeven’s RoboCop. The film, which chronicles Burroughs’ life, including his childhood, death of his wife, the 1966 banning of his novel Naked Lunch by the U.S. government, and more, [...]
All Tomorrow’s Parties – The Film (Warp Films)
July 6, 2009
Warp Films presents: ALL TOMORROWS PARTIES – The Film, Featuring: Belle And Sebastian / Grizzly Bear / Sonic Youth / Battles / Portishead / Daniel Johnston / Grinderman / David Cross / Animal Collective / The Boredoms / Les Savy Fav / Mogwai / Octopus Project / Slint / The Dirty Three / The Yeah [...]
Best 2009 albums so far according to The Quietus
July 3, 2009
The months slide away like greased ferrets down a drainpipe. It’s halfway through ’09 already and here are The Quietus’ favourite albums so far. And they give extra attention to body hair (hirsuteness)! 10. La Roux – La Roux 9. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest 8. Fever Ray – Fever Ray 7. Bat For Lashes – [...]
It's Indie Thursday!
May 7, 2009
This week’s indie favourites at the ZXZW office: As long as we’re waiting for that new My Bloody Valentine record, we’ll keep ourselves busy listening to the new Japandroids album. It’s called Post-Nothing, which is of course an über-cool name. Japandroids is a two piece band from Vancouver, BC. Like you guessed, it’s shoegaze, it’s [...]
Jandek: you got to love it… or not
April 8, 2009
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLwiYpSTFE] Meet Jandek. He’s a cult musician that counts Sonic Youth, Nirvana and Bright Eyes band members in his fanbase. Watch the video above and draw your own conclusions (the guitar sets in around 1:30): hit or shit?
Sonic Youth exhibit
January 27, 2009
The exhibition is devoted to the activities of the experimental guitar band Sonic Youth, which profoundly influenced style in the music and art scene from its founding in 1981. This is shown by the numerous joint projects of the band with artists, filmmakers, designers, and musicians, as well as by works of art that Sonic [...]
YURI LANDMAN lecture
August 12, 2008
Guitarists like Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, Aaron Hemphill of Liars, and Brian Gibson of Lightning Bolt are known for the deluges of sound that they wring from their instruments– drones, fuzz, wails, rumbles, alarms, shrieks, and sometimes even actual notes and chords. But don’t be surprised if these innovaters’ riffs become even more face-melting [...]
Goodbye 20th Century: A Biography of Sonic Youth
June 25, 2008
More SY news: There’s a new book on the band. At Subjectivisten there’s a beautiful reviews.
Sonic Youth exhibition.
June 24, 2008
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. Through the multidisciplinary output of Sonic Youth and [...]
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[Listen] (Not yet released) Ides of Gemini – Constantinople
May 22, 2012
“Imagine being followed by a choir of ghosts in ancient, desolated and haunted ruins of the city of Constantinople” is what we wrote about Ides of Gemini when we were announcing this band for our festival. During Incubate this band will play at Friday the 14th of September. Officially their new album will be released [...]