Anyone who longs for the days when New York seemed like a post-apocalyptic, crime-ridden industrial wasteland is in for a treat tonight. At the Knitting Factory, the obscure yet seminal Manhattan post-punk band Teenage Jesus and the Jerks will reunite for two back-to-back performances. The shows will coincide with an exhibition opening Read More
Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore told New York Magazine last week that the band plans to launch a traveling art show that will stop in New York, possibly at the Whitney.
"We’re putting together this museum show that’s utilizing all the artists that we’ve worked with on different covers and concepts, and that’s Read More
Has middle age finally caught up to Sonic Youth, the noisy New York art-rock quartet whose punky cartoon-selves once pilfered watermelon from Peter Frampton’s cooler on The Simpsons? Because it seems like the longtime fringy group is stealing from mainstream rock elder statesman Paul McCartney’s playbook.
Earlier this summer, Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore Read More
Sonic Youth, Stereolab Fall Short
Sick of wading through 70-minute compact discs with only 40 minutes worth of decent music on them? Old-guard vanguardists Stereolab and Sonic Youth feel your pain. Their new albums, The First of the Microbe Hunters (Elektra) and NYC Ghosts & Flowers (Geffen), each time out at less than 45 minutes, Read More
It’s not everyday you run across fun party music made by a couple of French psychologists. But that’s Installation Sonore (V2), an album of imaginative, razor-sharp dance tunes done by Jean-Philippe and Patou, two ex-indie rockers based in Montpellier, France.
Jean-Philippe and Patou came up with the name Rinôçérôse–which has expanded on stage at home Read More
Fiona Apple Blossoms
In 1996, amid talk of girl power and waifdom, a tiny 18-year-oldsinger-songwriter-pianist named Fiona Apple made her debut with an album called Tidal . Although at first taken as a marketing team’s capitalization on the Kate Moss moment, Ms. Apple soon revealed herself as a top-drawer popster; hit singles like “Criminal,” which Read More
Friedrich Nietzsche, the Greil Marcus of his day, once noted, “There are two tragedies in a man’s life. The first is to have failed to have reached your goal; the second is to have reached it.” Arguments of eternal return aside, Nietzsche seemed to understand how the “world” of music is represented to the public. Read More
