Photo © Stephanie Berger New York’s Bang on a Can Marathon celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. The annual event hosts a number of experimental and avant-garde performers, as part of the larger River to River festival. During the 12-hour Marathon, the performe...

Beck is the latest artist in line to release a single on Jack White's Third Man label. The upper echelons of American rock music seem to be in cahoots. Beck recently produced a solo record for Thurston Moore, resulting in one of the more straight forwardly beautiful instalments in the guitarist's career. Now Jack White has got involved. Beck seemingly decamped to Nashville last year to work on a solo record, and swiftly fell into the guitarist's gravitational pull. Recording a pair of tracks together, Beck is now set to release a single through Jack White's ...

Marcia Bassett & Samara Lubelski Sunday Night, Sunday Afternoon [Kye; 2012] by Paul Haney Rating: Since the dissolution of one of my favorite noise/drone acts of the 2000s, the incomparable Double Leopards, founder Marcia Bassett has continued to release infrequent yet superb recordings under her solo alias Zaimph, with these particular collections stripping away the density that came with the Leopards’ collaborative barrage into something balancing that project’s crunching cacophony with a more explicit, singular minimalism. Samara Lubelski, on the other hand, has left her imprint in many varying musical modes over the course of the last decade, releasing material that stretches everywhere from contemplative instrumentals ...

Guitarist and singer Paul Saulnier, one half of the Ontario duo PS I Love You , waves his rock fanboy flag so proudly he all but dares listeners to snicker at his sincerity. Saulnier sings with a quiver that fulcrums between countrymen Spencer Krug and Geddy Lee, and mixes and matches Alex Lifeson’s busybody fretwork and Thurston Moore’s blissful dissonance with little concern for the aesthetic barricades between Rush and Sonic Youth fans. But Saulnier’s Guitar Center theatrics aren’t even the least cool element of PS I Love You’s sophomore album, Death Dreams , or the most ...

If I had to pick the one guy who likes to collaborate the most, I’d have to pick Keiji Haino. A quick glance at the portion of his discography listed with his name plus at least one other artist includes outings with: Peter Brotzmann, Loren Connors, Shoji Hano, Tatsuya Yoshida, Barre Phillips, Derek Bailey, Boris, Alan Licht, KK Null, Coil, Thurston Moore, My Cat Is an Alien, Tony Conrad, Pan Sonic, and most recently, Jim O’Rourke and Oren Ambarchi, among quite a few others. And that’s to say nothing of Haino’s solo albums and works with ...

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News Karl Walter, Getty Feist , Thurston Moore and Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks are amongst the 200-plus artists just announced for the fast-becoming-a-thing Sled Island Music and Arts Festival being held in Calgary, Alberta from June 20-23. There'll be no shortage of underground heroes to attract former record store employees and campus radio DJs to the fest as Lou Barlow , Archers of Loaf , Timber Timbre , Nomeansno , Andrew W.K. , the Hold Steady and the Sadies will all be playing.

In advance of tomorrow's May Day Occupy Protests , filmmaker Emily James will be screening her controversial film, Just Do It , which looks at lawbreakers who engage in Direct Action in the UK. James follows a group of non-violent UK activisits who shut down airpots, stormed coal power stations and super-glued themselves to bank trading floors despite frequent arrests. The film will be available to watch beginning at 5:30pm EST tonight on Occupy.com for 24 hours via this page . Activists are aiming to make May Day or May 1st, a "general strike," and are urging supporters to skip ...

Lee Ranaldo is the one from Sonic Youth who is more reserved than gangly giant Thurston Moore and bouncing bass player Kim Gordon. But he's no less influential on their unique sound. And on his latest solo album, with a band including...

The status of Sonic Youth has remained in question since members Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore announced their split after 27 years of marriage. Recently, guitarist Lee Ranaldo [...]

TBD. That's the fate of Sonic Youth and the band's future. The band's status has remained in question since members Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore announced their split after 27 years of marriage and rocking. Now, guitarist Lee Ranaldo is talking about the band's future. When Gordon and Moore

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OFF Festival has expanded its line up once again, with Metronomy, The Antlers and more being added. Held in Poland, OFF has rapidly developed a reputation for producing left field bills of an extremely high standard. Mixing experimental music with some tasteful mainstream fare, the Polish event recently expanded its bill yet again. Amongst the latest additions are Joe Mount's Mercury nominated collective Metronomy. Since the release of 'The English Riviera' the band have spent considerable time on the road, honing their live set in the process. Clad with those distinctive lamps on their chest, Metronomy are set to ...

Metronomy and The Antlers have been added to Poland’s Off Festival , joining the likes of Iggy and the Stooges, Kurt Vile and King Creosote & Jon Hopkins. The award winning “best mid sized” festival takes place in Krakowice over the weekend 3rd – 5th August and tickets are still available ( here ) starting from around 50 euros. Other names added in this latest announcement include High Places and Andy Scott as well as Bardo Pond Apteka and Beneficjenci Slendoru. Unfortunately the band Swietliki will no longer be playing the festival. Full line up so far: Africa HiTech, AfroKolektyw, Akron/Family, Alva Noto ...

Lee Ranaldo es el gran guitarrista de Sonic Youth que, además, también tiene una prominente carrera solista con nada menos que nueve discos solistas y el lanzamiento del último, llamado Between The Times And Tides, este mismo año. Como no podía ser de otra manera, en una entrevista con la gente de Spinner, le preguntaron qué pasaría en el futuro con Sonic Youth. Para los que estén un poco desactualizados, les comento que Thurston Moore y Kim Gordon, quienes estaban casados, se separaron el pasado octubre y, a partir de...

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , New Music , Exclusive Samuel Dietz, Redferns At any other point in the group's history, the arrival of a solo project by a member of Sonic Youth would be nothing to bat an eyelash about. The band's 30-year history is littered with side projects, collaborations with other artists and one-off appearances on compilations by its four mainstays. But there's something about the release of guitarist Lee Ranaldo 's Between the Times and the Tides that seems to signal a sea change within the Sonic Youth ranks, mostly due to the album coming ...