This week, Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore released a second music video off Demolished Thoughts, a Rose Mackey-directed clip for “Circulation” that Moore says captures the “ritualistic love energy” of the “free-spirit poet/artist girls of Northampton, Mass., who would explode and levitate into expressionistic transcendence whenever cool records would spin by local DJs.”
Moore also has a new slate of solo tour dates beginning with an appearance at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago today and running through August. He’s also joining Sonic Youth for a just-announced trip to South America in November; two dates have been announced so far, but more are expected. And, NPR today posted a full, hour-long streaming concert, recorded in May, that you can check out below.
Finally, in other Sonic Youth news, in addition to finally releasing the film “1991: The Year Punk Broke” on DVD in September, the band also is reissuing its Hits Are For Squares best-of on CD on Aug. 23. The compilation originally was sold exclusively through Starbucks, then was issued on vinyl last year for Record Store Day.
See Thurston Moore’s tour dates and stream a full concert after the jump…
Thurston Moore tour dates:
July 15: Pitchfork Music Festival, Chicago, IL
July 16: High Noon Saloon, Madison, WI
July 18: Varsity Theatre, Minneapolis, MN
July 21: Rickshaw Theatre, Vancouver, BC
July 22: Capitol Hill Block Party, Seattle, WA
July 23: Alladin Theatre, Portland, OR
July 25: New Parish, Oakland , CA
July 26: Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA
July 28: Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA
July 29: Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA
July 30: Casbah, San Diego, CA
July 31: Pappy & Harriets, Pioneertown, CA
Aug. 4: Twilight Music Series, Salt Lake City, UT
Aug. 28: Ottawa Folk Festival, Ottawa, ON
Aug. 30: Sanctuary @ First Unitarian Church, Philadelphia, PA
Sonic Youth tour dates:
Nov. 13: Maquinaria Festival, Santiago, Chile
Nov. 14: SWU Music & Arts Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- Video: Thurston Moore plays ‘Circulation,’ ‘Blood Never Lies’ on Jimmy Fallon
- Video: Thurston Moore, ‘Benediction’
- Free MP3: Thurston Moore, ‘Circulation’
- Sonic Youth’s ‘1991: The Year Punk Broke’ finally to be released on DVD this fall
- Free MP3: Thurston Moore, ‘Benediction’
- Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore to release ‘Demolished Thoughts’ in May
- Video: Watch Sonic Youth’s full ‘Austin City Limits’ performance
- Sonic Youth’s ‘SYR9: Simon Werner a Disparu’ soundtrack set for release Jan. 25
The absolute *worst* concert i attended was Sonic Youth 2 years ago. Mostly new songs, none of the classics. It was like watching a band that really didn’t care if they were there or not.
I walked out 3/4 of the way through.