Sonic Youth will reissue four of its early classics — Confusion is Sex (1983), Bad Moon Rising (1985), EVOL (1986) and Sister (1987) — on 180-gram audiophile vinyl this winter as part of Original Recordings Group’s new “Official and Definitive Sonic Youth Vinyl Series.”

Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore today took to his new blog — Flowers & Cream, which he quietly launched earlier this month — to announce a pair of intriguing musical projects: a new solo album and book, plus a “trio” record with wife/bandmate Kim Gordon and Yoko Ono.

Sonic Youth and The Breeders are among the acts announced today for the third installment of All Tomorrow’s Parties New York, set for Labor Day weekend and already featuring full-album performances by Iggy & The Stooges (Raw Power) and Mudhoney (Superfuzz Bigmuff Plus Early Singles).

Music fans up north have been treated this month to a new documentary series on Bravo! Canada called “Innovators in Music” that profiles artists from different disciplines, including, next month, legendary noise-rockers Sonic Youth.

Dinosaur Jr guitar slinger J Mascis has teamed up with two members of Cobra Verde and one of his Witch bandmates for a new project: Sweet Apple, which delivers its 12-track debut album, Love & Desperation, on April 20, and is expected to tour later this year.

[tweetmeme]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 and release a live DVD of the group performing 1988’s classic Daydream Nation.
Additionally, Ranaldo this week told the BBC that before SY records its [...]

As threatened, indie-rock legends Sonic Youth took to the tube last night, making an appearance on teen soap “Gossip Girl” to perform “Starpower” off 1986’s EVOL.
Slicing Up Eyeballs is not going to pretend to know what’s going on plot-wise here, other than the fact that SY is appearing as a wedding band and [...]

Not only will Sonic Youth do a highly improbable guest turn on teen soap “Gossip Girl” next week, but the band also is releasing a new acoustic version of its 1986 single “Starpower” — the song the band performs on Monday night’s episode.
Recorded over the summer in Portland, Ore., between tour stops, the new version [...]

Gary Numan’s appearances at Nine Inch Nails’ final live gigs could lead to a studio collaboration with Trent Reznor, the synthpop pioneer told The Quietus: “I know he wants to carry on doing music things. We went out a few days after (the LA gigs) with a few other people and the way he puts [...]

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 [...]