Inspired to create a new album after the highly successful Ocean Rain 25th Anniversary tour, which saw them play their 1984 masterpiece from start to finish at every show with a symphony no less, Ian McCulloch and Will Sergeant are back with The Fountain, their first album of new material in four years and the [...]

The perfect 2009 bookend to go with their perfect early January 2009 release Merriweather Post Pavilion, Fall Be Kind is a five track continuation mini album for the New York trio that pieces together three unreleased tracks from the Merriweather Post Pavilion sessions and two brand new songs.
The first track on Fall Be Kind, “Graze,” [...]

Well, it’s barely even February and the album that will have everyone arguing that it is one of the best albums of this decade or dreadfully overrated is already upon us. Ready for the album that you’re gonna hear about at least a hundred more times this year and for many more years to come?
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Other than maybe Radiohead or Wilco, it’s hard to think of any other band besides Sonic Youth that has had a more lauded and more well-recieved decade of work in the 00’s. Since 2002, Sonic Youth have made some of the most admired albums in their long tenured career including that years’ Murray Street, 2004’s [...]