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  Chelsea Light Moving Incite an All-Ages Riot With Furious 'Lip' Video

  May 16, 2013 – Almost two years after Occupy Wall Street, Thurston Moore is encouraging more active dissent. "Get fucking mad / Too fucking bad," the Sonic Youth singer-guitarist sneers on "Lip," a blistering art-punk track from his current band Chelsea Light Moving's excellent new self-titled album. …
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  Kim Gordon Battled Breast Cancer After Thurston Moore's Marriage-Ending Affair

  April 22, 2013 – When Matador announced that Sonic Youth power-couple Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore were separating after 27 years of marriage in late 2011, the label kept the circumstances of the split private. …
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  Team Ghost Glues Together Sonic Youth, Brian Eno, Clams Casino on 'Temazepam' Mixtape

  April 16, 2013 – Nicolas Fromageau left M83 not long after the synth-gaze unit explored Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts in 2003. And while Anthony Gonzalez has continued on to score imaginary teen soap operas (and real-life sci-fi blockbusters), Fromageau leads Team Ghost, an electro project set to issue its debut full-length, Rituals, today (April 16). …
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  Chelsea Light Moving, 'Chelsea Light Moving' (Matador)

  March 7, 2013 – To the outside world, it looks like Thurston Moore's whole Daydream Nation has fallen apart: A year and a half ago, he split with his wife and muse, Kim Gordon, putting Sonic Youth on indefinite hiatus. But Chelsea Light Moving, the eponymous debut by one of his new groups (yes, only one of them) indicates that indie music's favorite guitar-string-stretcher and walking encyclopedia is carrying on with business as usual. …
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  Yo La Tengo, 'Fade' (Matador)

  January 15, 2013 – When Yo La Tengo release their next album three years or so from now, no reviewer will think to mention Sonic Youth. Despite a shared fascination with how noise and melody can coincide and glance off one another, the similarities that the East Coast's two preeminent indie-rock bands shared were never really musical. They were, essentially, legal: At the core of each was a longstanding married couple. And that's no longer so. …
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  Kim Gordon Performing Again, But Not With Sonic Youth

  December 19, 2012 – Sonic Youth's future is still uncertain since alt-rock first couple Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon announced they were splitting up late last year, but Gordon will soon hit the road again in support of a new project, Body/Head, with free-noise guitarist Bill Nace. …
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  Thurston Moore Is the Worst at Not Getting Robbed

  December 13, 2012 – Just when it seemed like things were looking up for the guitar gods in Sonic Youth. In September, we reported that Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo were reunited with a pair of axes that'd been nicked from them all the way back in 1999. …
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  Art Basel 'KURT' Event Loosely Celebrates Cobain, Brings Thurston Moore to Miami

  December 7, 2012 – Peak '90s nostalgia and freely flowing art world money converged last night in Miami for KURT, a night of multimedia art and performance loosely inspired by the late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. The three-act event hit the city's 86-year-old Gusman Center for the Performing Arts as part of the hubbub surrounding Art Basel Miami Beach, a week nominally about art sales but ultimately about surreal confluences. …
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  Jeff Mangum, Lee Ranaldo, More to Perform at Occupy Wall Street Telethon

  October 24, 2012 – Jeff Mangum, Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo, TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe, and others will play an Occupy Wall Street-affiliated charity event and telethon at Le Poisson Rouge in New York on November 15. …
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  Preview Sonic Youth's New Live Album With 'Brave Men Run (In My Family)'

  October 16, 2012 – A month ago, we hipped you to the news that Sonic Youth are releasing a new old live album culled from their Bad Moon Rising days, and featuring early versions of later EVOL classics. In the time since, the band's been on a nostalgia spree, posting old videos and performances to their increasingly vital YouTube channel (check out their Letterman performance of "Bull in the Heather" on the same night James Carville was a guest!). …
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