Will Bryant reports:
Sonic Youth will be webcasting a live rehearsal on
their Echocam this Sunday, June 9th, featuring both new songs from the
forthcoming Murray Street and older songs the band is working up for its
massive summer tour. Band practice starts at 4 p.m. EST-- bring your 3-D glasses
and your Hearos. Pizza party with the Yoof! You can also download an MP3 of
Murray Street opener "The Empty Page" from their website, which will give
you a pretty good indication of what the album's all about, even if
"Disconnection Notice" and Renaldo's "Karen Revisited" are the sheeeeott.
Sonic Youth are also set to roll out the first of three expanded two-disc reissues of classic albums this September with Dirty. The tracklist is still a big friggin' secret, but we're told you can expect better than the usual hodgepodge of b-sides, outtakes, demos, and live material most bonus discs chunk at you, with the band personally combing the archives and selecting the material. As previously reported, Daydream Nation and Goo have also been tapped for expansion down the line.
Last-- but so not least-- Interscope will be giving Pitchfork readers a nifty little bonus on this month's MP3 sampler. The Murray Street outtake "Coca Neon Kamera Sutra" will be available for download just as soon as we get the green light. Who's yer daddy?
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Phil
Plencner - MrPhilP@ameritech.net
Drummer,
Percussionist, and All Around Great
Guy
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http://www.mp3.com/Phil_Plencner/
http://www.mp3.com/ThePartsMissing/
http://www.mp3.com/stations/PhilsPicks/
"I'll
bump into people who say 'Aw, I used to play the
drums, but I sold my set.'
And I think, 'How can you do
that? Are you insane?'" - Dave
Grohl
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