The members of Sonic Youth will be looking forward and backward in 2010, guitarist Lee Ranaldo says, as the band plans to both record a follow-up to this year’s The Eternal
Additionally, Ranaldo this week told the BBC that before SY records its next studio album, it’ll have to finish working on the soundtrack to an unnamed “French teen film.” Ranaldo said, “We’re probably going back into the studio next year.”
As for the Daydream Nation DVD, Ranaldo said the band plans to combine footage from its 2007-2008 full-album performances with historic footage filmed around the time of that record’s release.
The guitarist added:
“We’re doing a big archival house clean right now. We’ve got a massive archive of audio and video that’s sitting in our studio in Hoboken. We’ve got somebody in there who’s noting every single thing down and making a massive database, and then we’re going to start digitising it because some of the tapes are 30 years old now.”
In other Sonic Youth news, Thurston Moore will perform a one-off concert with that reclusive one-named weirdo Jandek on April 29 in Portland, Ore., in what’s sure to be one of the more talked-about gigs of 2010. Get your tickets here.
See video of Sonic Youth performing ‘Teenage Riot’ after the jump…
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- Video: Sonic Youth performs ‘EVOL’ classic ‘Starpower’ on ‘Gossip Girl’
- Sonic Youth releasing acoustic ‘Gossip Girl’ version of 1986’s ‘Starpower’
- Quick Spins: Gary Numan and Trent Reznor, Pixies, Sonic Youth, Mission of Burma
- Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo fractures wrist playing tennis, band reschedules tour
- Quick Spins: Big Audio Dynamite, Bad Lieutenant, The Cult, Sonic Youth
- Sonic Youth plots mini-tour of U.S. southwest
- Beck covering ‘EVOL’ on cassette for forthcoming Sonic Youth box set
- Video: Sonic Youth performs ‘Sacred Trickster’ on Letterman
- Sonic Youth to release latest, Merzbow-assisted SYR project in July
- Sonic Youth announces dates for U.S. tour in support of ‘The Eternal’
