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Sonic Youth packs for June outing
Alt-rock godfathers Sonic Youth will spend the month of June playing a mix of headlining dates and joint shows with current alt-rock darlings Wilco .
New York-based Sonic Youth continues to support its 2002 album "Murray Street," as well as a new re-issue of its 1992 album "Dirty," which has been re-mastered and packaged with a second disc of bonus tracks. Remastered editions of 1988's "Daydream Nation" and 1990's "Goo" are also in the works.
The group's itinerary includes 14 dates in all, six of which also feature Wilco.
Sonic Youth's current lineup features longtime members Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley. Jim O'Rourke is the band's latest addition.
Interscope revived its dormant DGC label for the release of "Murray Street," which hit stores last June. Recorded in the winter of 2001-2002, the album was named after the Murray Street location of Sonic Youth's studio, Echo Canyon. While working on "Murray Street," Sonic Youth also scored the music for Olivier Assayas' film, "Demon Lover," and for Allison Anders' Showtime film "Things Behind the Sun."
In other Sonic Youth news, guitarist Moore recently co-founded the website protest-records.com, which, according to a site statement, "exists for musicians, poets and artists to express LOVE + LIBERTY in the face of greed, sexism, racism, hate-crime and war."
As of April 17, 60 songs--by artists ranging from well-established acts like the Beastie Boys and Cat Power to relatively unknown artists--were available as free downloads from the site.
