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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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
October 14, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Lee Ranaldo and The Dust: Last Night On Earth
Lee Ranaldo and The Dust Last Night On Earth Matador Records The best thing about the Sonic Youth hiatus has been the chance for Lee Ranaldo to step out and have a platform. He is even, somewhat nobly I gather, finding work for SY drummer Steve Shelley. A wise choice of course because Shelley is […]Archive
September 22, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Chelsea Light Moving: Chelsea Light Moving
Chelsea Light Moving Chelsea Light Moving Matador Records What we can assume is the breaking up of Sonic Youth – due to the breaking up of Sonic Youth’s It-Couple, Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore – is actually a good thing. I love that band – they’ve been a constant for me since first discovering them […]Archive
September 16, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Kinski: Cosy Moments
Kinski Cosy Moments Kill Rock Stars Here you will hear Kinski sounding more like Mudhoney, Nirvana and Sonic Youth – especially the Sonic Youth of the last half-decade – a sort of classic-rock-esque take on grunge; Cosy Moments could have been released twenty years ago. Strange perhaps but I really dig it. It’s nearly a […]Archive
August 21, 2013 by Simon Sweetman