Lee Ranaldo has unveiled the video for 'Off The Wall' - the first to emerge from his new album ‘Between The Tides and The Times’. Maintaining a lengthy solo career, Lee Ranaldo has long been associated with avant garde material. Yet for his new album ‘Between The Tides and The Times’ the guitarist seems ready to focus on something with a trad bent. Featuring Sonic Youth members past and present - Steve Shelley, Jim O’Rourke and Bob Bert, to be precise - Lee Ranaldo was also joined by Nels Cline, Alan Licht, John Medeski and bassist Irwin Menken. 'Off The Wall' first ...

Lee Ranaldo is releasing his first full-band solo album, Between The Times & The Tides, via Matador Records on March 20. Lee’s band features some of his longtime collaborators Steve Shelley, Jim O’Rourke and original Sonic Youth drummer Bob … Read More

Wouldn’t the United Nations be so much more worthwhile of an organization if each country, instead of electing the most diplomatic and politically aware citizens to serve as ambassador, altered their criteria in order to place a completely irrelevant emphasis on one’s ability to musically improvise? Additionally, in order to overcome those pesky language barriers, each representative would be required to “speak” through the positive or negative tones of their respective instruments. Here’s how that would hypothetically play out: “In response to the continued human rights abuses by the leader of Hullabalooistan, the gentleman from neighboring Republic ...

As previously reported ,  Jim O'Rourke will curate the second day of the  All Tomorrow's Parties I'll Be Your Mirror Festival in Tokyo, taking place April 14-15 at Studio Coast. ATP has now confirmed that O'Rourke will also perform his classic 1999 album Eureka in full, accompanied by a 12-piece band.

Last week, we reported that Jim O’Rourke will not only be curating ATP’s I’ll Be Your Mirror festival in Japan, but that he’ll also be performing in it. Hold onto your hats, stop the presses and all that jazz, because according to FACT , O’Rourke will be joined by a 12-piece band to play his 1999 album Eureka on the second day of the festival. TMT loves O’Rourke and this album with such passion that we named our whole favorite new albums section after it. Other confirmed additions to the lineup include The Jon Spencer ...

Details about the upcoming Japanese version of the I'll Be Your Mirror Festival have been trickling slowly toward our eager ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/jim-orourke-to-perform-eureka-at-atp-japan/61323/

On Saturday 14 & Sunday 15 April 2012, renowned concert promoters All Tomorrow's Parties will once again collaborate with Japan's Creativeman to present their second Japanese event. Named after the b-side to The Velvet Underground's original All Tomorrow's Parties 7" single, the first I'll Be Your...

Victor Villarreal Invisible Cinema Joyful Noise Recordings [2012] Fire Note Says: Indie innovator Victor Villarreal steps out on his own with the engaging Invisible Cinema . Album Review: Victor Villarreal has always been considered a groundbreaking guitarist in the modern indie rock world with his captivating previous work in the bands Cap'n Jazz, Owls, Ghosts & Vodka, and more recently, Joan Of Arc. Invisible Cinema represents his first fully realized solo material and the 30 minute record absolutely does not disappoint. Right from the album opening intricate guitar strums on "Enters" you know that Victor is going to give a lesson ...

Sonic experimentalist and Sonic Youth/Wilco/Joanna Newsom collaborator Jim O'Rourke is next in line as a curator of an  All Tomorrow's Parties Festival . He'll curate the second day of the  I'll Be Your Mirror festival at Studio Coast in Tokyo, which takes place April 14-15. (ATP themselves curate the first day.) He'll also perform, with other artists to be announced later.

Today just got a little lot brighter. ATP announced this morning that Jim O’Rourke has been selected to curate this spring’s I’ll Be Your Mirror . The event, named after the brief Velvet Underground B-side, had its inaugural run last summer with headliner Godspeed You! Black Emperor and was so successful they’ve decided to give it another go. While the initial line-up has yet to be announced officially, ATP did share that O’Rourke is scheduled to perform at the event — and that’s enough info for us. O’Rourke moved to Japan several years ago and ...

ATP are set to return to Japan later this year with a new instalment of I'll Be Your Mirror . Launched last year, I'll Be Your Mirror saw All Tomorrow's Parties head out to Japan. The success of that venture has sparked a repeat performance, with Jim O'Rourke set to help convene proceedings. Expanding to take place over two days, I'll Be Your Mirror runs between April 14th and 15th. Hitting Studio Coast in Tokyo, the event will boast the usual array of live music, cinema and more. Ticket and line up details will be confirmed ...

Ya les habíamos contado que Lee Ranaldo, guitarrista de Sonic Youth, se encuentra preparando Between the times and the tides, trabajo solista que verá la luz vía Matador Records el 20 de marzo. Ranaldo alista su debut en solitario que cuenta con la participación del también Sonic Youth  Steve Shelley, Jim O’Rourke y Nels Cline [...]

Sonic Youth guitarist  Lee Ranaldo 's solo album  Between the Times & the Tides is out March 20 via  Matador . Album cut "Off the Wall" is now available to hear below, via the Matablog . The song will also appear on the  2012 Intended Play Sampler , coming from Matador and True Panther on January 17. Contributors to the album include Jim O'Rourke, Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley, former SY drummer Bob Bert, Wilco's Nels Cline, Alan Licht, John Medeski, and bassist Irwin Menkin. Listen to "Off the Wall" below. MP3: Lee Ranaldo: "Off the Wall"

Last month, the increasingly elusive avant-garde master Jim O’Rourke, now rocking an impressive crazy-old-man beard, played a few songs for onlookers at Dyson Lab Ginza, in his adopted hometown of Tokyo. Below, we’ve got two videos of him playing two sprawling acoustic-guitar instrumentals, both of them taken from his 1997 album Bad Timing. Below, check [...]

Jim O’Rourke has been issuing albums via Editions Mego in a vinyl-only format in ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/jim-orourke-releasing-old-news-album-on-editions-m/60315/