Record Rack: A weekly round-up of the pertinent new albums, reissues and/or box sets due out Tuesday.
ARTIST: Kraftwerk
RELEASES: Autobahn, Radio-Activity, Trans Europe Express, The Man-Machine, Computer World, Techno Pop, The Mix, Tour De France
BACKSTORY: Although the release of its box set The Catalogue has been delayed until Nov. 17, this week still will [...]

Reformed post-punk legends Mission of Burma will mark the release this fall of their third post-comeback album, The Sound The Speed The Light, with a brief six-date tour that’ll take the band to Austin, Texas, and down the West Coast.
The run opens Nov. 8  with an appearance at Austin’s Fun Fun Fun Fest, after which [...]

Thanks to a tennis injury of all things, Sonic Youth has been forced to reschedule much of its fall mini-tour of the Southwestern U.S. in support of this year’s lauded Matador Records debut The Eternal.

The band today announced that guitarist Lee Ranaldo fractured his wrist playing tennis, requiring the cancellation of two fall concerts and [...]

Nearing the end of its summer tour of the U.S., Sonic Youth this week announced a seven-date “southwest mini-tour” this fall as it extends its promotion of its new album The Eternal deeper into California, Arizona and Texas.
The band — which also tacked on a final date to its summer trek on Monday in San [...]

After teasing fans last week, Matador Records this morning officially announced the Oct. 6 release of Mission of Burma’s third post-comeback LP, The Sound The Speed The Light, as well as a pre-release 7-inch due in August.
While the label hasn’t yet revealed the album’s tracklist, it did post a free MP3 of lead-off cut “1, [...]

Legendary postpunk act Mission of Burma will release its third post-reunion album, The Sound The Speed The Light, on Oct. 6, Matador Records revealed today.
The label made the announcement, and unveiled the record’s cover art, via a poster it posted on the Matablog this afternoon for the band’s Sunday gig in New York with labelmates [...]

The members of Sonic Youth will play DJ each night next week when the band hosts a show on Sirius XMU, the indie-rock station on Sirius XM satellite radio.
“The Sonic Youth Show” will air from 8 to 10 p.m. Eastern Monday, July 6, through Friday, July 10, on XM channel 43 and Sirius channel 26.
According [...]

Record Rack: A weekly round-up of the pertinent new releases hitting stores this Tuesday:
ARTIST: Sonic Youth
RELEASE: The Eternal
BACKSTORY: After 20 years on a major label, the noise-rock pioneers return to their indie roots for their Matador Records debut and 16th album overall, which band members say took some inspiration from their decision to revisit 1988’s [...]

Noise-rock legends Sonic Youth this morning unfurled the itinerary for their summer tour of the U.S. in support of forthcoming LP The Eternal, which drops June 8 via Matador Records.
The 21-date trek opens June 28 in Chicago and wraps Aug. 2 in Oakland, Calif.
According to the band, tickets for most of the shows will go [...]

Fans of Sonic Youth this week got the first official taste of the band’s forthcoming The Eternal, as Matador Records posted the album’s first MP3— the Kim Gordon-sung “Sacred Trickster” — online for free download.
The record doesn’t come out until June 8, but those who pre-order it through Matador’s Buy Early Get Now program will [...]

Now that Sonic Youth has freed itself from the shackles of major-labeldom, what publication does the band offer an exclusive preview of its forthcoming Matador Records debut to?
Newsweek?
Go figure. Guess corporate magazines don’t suck after all.
Anyway, below is a 2:34, slightly lo-fi mash-up of the tracks off the band’s forthcoming The Eternal, which drops June [...]

After spending nearly two decades signed to a major label, New York noise-rock legends Sonic Youth are back where they were circa 1986: on an indie.
The band’s Matador Records debut, The Eternal, doesn’t drop until June 9, but the hype machine’s beginning to crank up on Sonic Youth’s 16th full-length, which was co-produced by Rather [...]