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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, […]
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December 2, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

V/A: I’ll Be Your Mirror – A Tribute To The Velvet Underground & Nico

Various Artists: I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute To The Velvet Underground & Nico Verve It’s been a wee while since I’ve found a great Various Artists tribute album – one that doesn’t feel try-hard, one that doesn’t run out of steam. So I was pleasantly surprise by this, feeling – on paper – it […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Art, Autobiography, Book, Book Review, Girl In A Band, Kim Gordon, Kim Gordon: Girl In A Band - A Memoir, Memoir, Music, Music Book, New York, Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore ·

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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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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 […]
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April 4, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1546

Lee Ranaldo, Between The Times And The Tides (2012) I’m a Sonic Youth fan and so I’ve checked out a lot of what the band members have done on their own and with others outside of the group. Lee Ranaldo is great but he can be a tough listen. (That doesn’t make him any less […]
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