Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo has spoken out about the future of the band.
In an interview with BBC Radio 5 Live, which you can listen to below, Ranaldo confirmed that he was currently working on digitising the band's 30 year archive – as well as a potential deluxe edition of their 1987 album Sister and a live film from 1985.
"I'm on good terms and talking with everyone," he said. "But there's definitely a lot of stuff shaking out right now."
Thurston Moore has unveiled another track by his new band, Chelsea Light Moving.
The song "Groovy & Linda" can be heard by scrolling down and clicking below. It draws lyrical inspiration from the late-'60s East Village hippie couple whose flower-power dreams ended in a double homicide. Folk singer Thom Parrott also named a song in 1968 after the same track.
It follows the band's first release "Burroughs", which is inspired by the last words of Beat author William Burroughs.
The six track album will be released on September 24 and will feature the 14 minute long single, "Early In The Morning", reports Rolling Stone.
In October last year Gordon and Moore announced their split. The rock couple released a statement through their label Matador Records revealing that they were separating after 27 years of marriage.
Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo and Dinosaur Jr.'s J Mascis have collaborated on a cover of Peter Green's guitar instrumental "Albatross" for a new Fleetwood Mac covers compilation.
To be released on August 14 via Hear Music/Concord, the compilation also features contributions from Marianne Faithful, Antony Hegarty and MGMT.
The track listing for the compilation is:
Entrance Band – 'Green Manalishi'
Crystal Ark – 'Tusk'
Best Coast – 'Rhiannon'
The New Pornographers – 'Think About Me'
MGMT – 'Future Games'
Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon has paid tribute to Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch and said he was a "great rapper and lyricist".
The bassist has shared her memories of Yauch, who passed away on Friday (May 4) after a three-year battle with cancer, with NME and hailed the rapper's lyrics.
She said: "He told me once that he really liked the lyrics to 'Bull In The Heather'. It surprised me that he had even listened to it. It meant a lot to me that he went out of his way to tell me that, coming from such a great rapper and lyricist."
As guitarist Lee Ranaldo is in Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes in this month's new issue (April 2012, Take 179), we thought we'd share a Sonic Youth piece from our archive. In this feature, published in 2009, Marc Spitz finds the band (who've just finished what we now know could be their final album, The Eternal) ageing with more dignity than most, but still finding time to lash out at Oasis, Madonna and U2, and order a baby pig with a donut in its mouth… Picture by Pieter M Van Hattem.
