If I had millions and millions of dollars my closet would be stark full of designer Marc Jacobs playful boho garments.(I would also have a killer permanent tan from weekend jaunts to the Seychelles in my private jet). As a New Yorker who lives only steps away from the designers West Village dominion (five Jacobs stores - Little Marc (baby clothes), Marc by Marc Jacobs (contemporary), Marc Jacob...
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Oh Sonic Youth...if you aren't penning a score to a porn or providing the music to a couture fashion show, you are are doing something else to surprise us. Starting June 10th when you head to select Starbucks to get your daily shot of caffeine you'll be able to pick up...get this...a celebrity-curated greatest hits Sonic Youth compilation, Hits Are For Squares.Some of the celebs who picked out ...
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Yet another reason to love Kim Gordon. The Sonic Youth bassist and mother of one has launched her own clothing line, Mirror/Dash, named after her side-project with hubby and fellow Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore.Gordon, a staple at designer Marc Jacobs' fashion shows, started the line with friends Melinda Wansbrough and Jeffrey Monteiro. The inspiration is "clothes for cool moms." The tri...
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I'll preface this by saying that though I know many people who watch the show, I've never seen an episode of Gossip Girl before. In fact, this clip is the first time I've ever seen the show, and it took a seriously head-scratching guest appearance for me to take a look: noise-rockers Sonic Youth show up not only as a wedding band, but bassist Kim Gordon officiates the ceremony. Gordon jokes t...
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Sonic Youth fans should set their TIVOs and DVRs to the National Geographic channel, where frontman Thurston Moore will narrate the documentary Inside Straight Edge, airing tonight.The documentary focuses on the "straight edge community,":http://www.straightedge.com/whatissxe.html drinkers feel uncomfortable with their "JUST SAY NO" policy towards everything.Moore will also be playing a few sol...
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Sonic Youth have unveiled the video for "Sacred Trickster," the opening track off their 16th album and latest masterpiece The Eternal. With only two minutes of Kim Gordon angst to work with, director Tom Surgal quickly tells the story of three lady anarchists who pack paint bombs in their pocketbooks and detonate them at some party where mimes serve as cocktail waiters. groovy
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This is clipped from today's headlines.*Pope Benedict XVI reasserted the primacy of the Roman Catholic Church, approving a document released today that says other Christian communities are either defective or not true churches and Catholicism provides the only true path to salvation.*Wait it gets better.*"Christ 'established here on earth' only one church," said the document released as the pop...
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Norway joins the list of countries with fabulous music festivals this year with the lineup announcement for their Øya Festival. The event takes place in Oslo over the weekend of August 5-9 and features Sonic Youth, Grinderman, My Bloody Valentine, Sigur Ros, Lykke Li, Holy Fuck, Lightspeed Champion, Kid Sister & A-Track plus more! The lineup also includes sludge/doom/drone metal legends ISIS ..
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When Sonic Youth's new label Matador Records invited journalists to hear a preview of their upcoming album, The Eternal back in February, most of them liked it so much they were disappointed to learn it wouldn't be released for another four months. A writer from Newsweek, of all places, convinced them to issue a preview montage."The Youth are all cool and avant-garde, right? They dig William Bu...
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Bon chicka bon chicka whawha. We all know that Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore can get freaky on the guitar. But he is now taking his freakiness to the next level. Mr. Moore has scored the adult film Extra Action (And Extra Hardcore) from director Richard Kern. Kern and Sonic Youth go way back. The filmmaker shot the band's videos "Death Valley 69" and "Scooter and Jinx." Kern also shot the cover ...
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This Saturday, Sonic Youth will perform their entire Daydream Nation album live at McCarren Pool!AND, this Sunday's free show features the fabulous fellas of TV on the Radio! The full lineup for Sunday:TV on the RadioCelebrationMiles Benjamin Anthony RobinsonDJ Ryan RasheedThe pool has also featured shows by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Les Savy Fav, Bloc Party, M.I.A., Spank Rock, Beirut and many mor...
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Rolling Stone has the goods today - 2 songs off the upcoming deluxe edition of Daydream Nation from Sonic Youth. You can listen to streaming audio of "Teen Age Riot" and "Silver Rocket" off the RS blog. Of course, most dyed in the wool Sonic Youth fans already have these in their collections (the streams are the older unremastered versions from the first release), but it's a nice taste for th...
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Sonic Youth just don't know when to stop do they? And that's a good thing for us. At last week's McCarren Pool in Brooklyn, the indie-rock legends played the last show ever there by opening with two new songs. The songs are so new that they neither have titles nor lyrics. Though Thurston Moore explained to crowd that the band had just began writing material for their new album a few days ago, h...
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The original artwork that graces the cover of Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation will be auctioned in London next Wednesday. The photo-painting is called "Kerze" which means "Candle" and it was 1 of 20 that Gerhard Richter created. "Kerze" is also the name of a song on the Sonic Youth album. Richter's artwork has sold for as much as £6.5million in the past. This particular piece is expected to r..
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Sonic Youth's 16th album, 'The Eternal', will be released on vinyl, compact disc, and digital album by Matador Records on June 9. Produced by John Agnello and the band, 'The Eternal' not only marks Sonic Youth's return to the independent label sphere (titles on their own SYR label excepted) after a long association with [...] Related posts:Eskimo Joe: 2009 Tour Dates Album Review: Hate Etern...
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