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.

[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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

This summer not only will see the release of Sonic Youth’s next proper album — The Eternal, due June 8 — but also Andre Sider Af Sonic Youth, the eighth release in the band’s long-running SYR series of experimental and mostly instrumental recordings.
Set to drop July 28, SYR 8 will be a CD-only release featuring [...]

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 [...]