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March 30, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

I Miss Sonic Youth But The Music Is Always There

When I was 13, I started reading Guitar World – I was obsessed with the guitar. I was listening to a lot of blues-rock stuff – Eric Clapton and Led Zeppelin and Jeff Beck. But reading Guitar World helped me to go further back (Robert Johnson, Django Reinhardt) and wider/broader (Alan Holdsworth). I would read about my favourite guitar heroes (Ritchie Blackmore) and […]
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March 24, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Sonic Youth: In/Out/In

Sonic Youth In/Out/In Three Lobed Recordings I sometimes get sad thinking there’ll be no more music by Sonic Youth. But then I remember all of the great music the band made across 40 years – lasting longer than anyone with the name ‘Sonic Youth’ might ever hope and straddling the mainstream and the weirder/artier side, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Compilation, EP, In/Out/In, Jim O'Rourke, Kim Gordon, Kim Richey, Lee Ranaldo, posthumous, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth: In/Out/In, Steve Shelley, Thurston Moore, To follow me in all the right places check out the Linktree right here. And to subscribe to my Substack newsletter “Sounds Good” click here, Unreleased ·

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January 20, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Lee Ranaldo: In Virus Time [EP]

Lee Ranaldo In Virus Time [12 “ Single] Mute My favourite ex-member of Sonic Youth to check in on, always, is Lee Ranaldo. Because what he does never feels like posturing. And because you have to follow him across poetry and photographs, improv and band jamming, solo acoustic singer/songwritery pursuits and all manner of music. […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 12" Single, Acoustic, Album Review, EP, Guitar, In Virus Time, Jim O'Rourke, John Fahey, Joni Mitchell, Lee Ranaldo, Lee Ranaldo: In Virus Time [EP], Solo, Sonic Youth, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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August 30, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Thurston Moore: Spirit Counsel

Thurston Moore Spirit Counsel Daydream Library For some 40 years now Thurston Moore’s guitar has been making noise in public. Sometimes it’s in the shape of a song, other times it couldn’t seem more removed. With a band or solo, as a guest or with guests of his own – it’s a dizzying discography and […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 3-Disc, Album Review, box-set, Daydream Library, Glenn Branca, Guitar, Improvisation, Instrumental, Noise, Sonic Youth, Spirit Counsel, Thurston Moore, Thurston Moore: Spirit Counsel ·

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November 23, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 143 – Chris Wilson (Gold Medal Famous)

Welcome to episode 143 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Now – as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify library to access each new episode; or via Anchor/FMyou can get the […]
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January 7, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Banding Together By Branding Together: On Band T-Shirts

What is it with wearing T-shirts of bands to gigs by other bands? We know you like music. You’re at a live concert! Relax and be happy – sing the words that you do know (poorly and out of tune) back in the direction of the guy or girl who wrote them and knows them […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Band Tees, Banding Together By Branding Together, Banding Together By Branding Together: On Band T-Shirts, Def Leppard, Elemeno P, Eric Clapton, GNR, Joe Cocker, Merchandise, On Band T-Shirts, Sonic Youth, T-Shirts ·

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January 20, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 763

Sonic Youth, Washing Machine (1995) I became a fan of Sonic Youth by reading about them: Guitar World, an excellent article where the guitarists talked about anti-guitar hero antics and notions, namedropped a bunch of great things (some I’d heard, some I hadn’t) and just generally made me want to hear their music. And I […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1995, 1996, 2xLP, Dave Grohl, Double Record, Foo Fighters, LP, Record, Sonic Youth, The Vinyl Countdown # 763, Vinyl, Washing Machine ·

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April 1, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Kim Gordon: Girl In A Band – A Memoir

Girl In A Band: A Memoir Kim Gordon Dey Street Books/1st Edition edition Kim Gordon was always the “Girl in a Band” – it was the question she was always asked (“what’s it like being…?” and in a doubting sense she saw herself as that; a blatant non-musician. Her being the girl in the band […]
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October 22, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Lee Ranaldo and The Dust: Acoustic Dust

Lee Ranaldo and The Dust Acoustic Dust El Segell del Primavera Publishing I’ve said it before and I’ll here say it again – whatever happens with Sonic Youth it’s been pleasing hearing from Lee Ranaldo – still the improvisations and experimentation but he’s knocked out a couple of pretty great records already, song-based records that […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Acoustic Dust, Album Review, Between The Times And The Tides, David Kilgour, Glacial, Last Night On Earth, Lee Ranaldo, Lee Ranaldo and The Dust, R.E.M., Sonic Youth, The Dust ·

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July 23, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Swans: Not Here/Not Now

Swans Not Here/Not Now Young God Oh shit, I wouldn’t have a clue how to write about Swans – particularly the recent albums. I loved The Seer – well, I was frightened by it, intrigued, I felt like it pulverised me but in the end it was love, yes. And yet I did not write […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Live, Live Album, Melvins, Michael Gira, Not Here, Not Here/Not Now, Not Now, Scott Walker, Sonic Youth, Swans, The Seer, To Be Kind ·

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February 17, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band: Take Me To The Land Of Hell

Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band Take Me To The Land Of Hell Chimera Music Her heart is dancing and her mind is bouncing. She’s 80 – but it’s been that way for her entire artistic life, she even says so – literally using those words – on Bad Dancer, one of the 13 excellent tracks […]
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January 26, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Glacial: On Jones Beach

Glacial On Jones Beach Three Lobed Recordings Funny, the tricks the mind plays – or where you allow the mind to go – when listening to free and improvised music; the melodies that find themselves and then find you in and around the noise, that dissonant wash, and then you attach your own memories, your […]
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