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☆ Kim Gordon’s Coolest Act Yet
  + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( Lindsay Zoladz | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Plenty of people she loved attended her 60th birthday bash in New York, but she still felt unmoored. Gordon’s 70th birthday party last year, though, was another story entirely. For one thing, it was in Los Angeles, the city she’d grown up in and returned to in 2015. But also, as Gordon explained on a video call from her book-strewn home in late February, it doubled as a celebration of finishing her second solo album, “The Collective.”“It was kind of great to have done that on my 70th birthday,” she said and laughed from behind tinted sunglasses. (The title is partially inspired by Jennifer Egan’s novel “The Candy House.”) But left turns are business as usual for Gordon, a restlessly curious artistic polymath who has never settled for the conventional, expected or familiar.
Persons: Kim Gordon, “, ”, Thurston Moore, Gordon, I’d, Jennifer Egan’s Locations: New York, Los Angeles
☆ Phill Niblock, Dedicated Avant-Gardist of Music and Film, Dies at 90
  + stars: | 2024-01-12 | by ( Alex Williams | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
His partner, Katherine Liberovskaya, said he died in a hospital of heart failure after years of cardiac procedures. Mr. Niblock had no formal musical training. He served as the foundation’s sole director from 1985 until his death, and he was also the curator of the foundation’s record label, XI. His loft on Centre Street in Lower Manhattan served as a performance space for the foundation. It was also a social nexus for boundary-pushing musicians and composers like John Cage, Arthur Russell, David Behrman and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth.
Persons: Phill Niblock, Katherine Liberovskaya, Niblock, Elaine Summers, John Cage, Arthur Russell, David Behrman, Thurston Moore Organizations: Sonic Youth Locations: New York, Manhattan, Lower Manhattan
☆ Thurston Moore’s Electrifying History Lesson
  + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Mark Yarm | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
“He and the band championed Beck, Mudhoney, Dinosaur Jr. and Nirvana” early on, he said. (She memorably howls her way through “Death Valley ’69,” Sonic Youth’s combustive first single, from 1984.) In October 2011, Sonic Youth’s label made the surprise announcement that Moore and Gordon had separated after 27 years of marriage. In the book, Moore shares a bare-bones version of what transpired — he had fallen in love with Eva Prinz, a book editor. If I got too much into that, that would be a critical focus, as it is with any memoir.
Persons: Dave Markey, ”, Thurston, ” Markey, Azerrad, Moore’s, Beck, “, ” Beck, Moore, “ He’s, Lydia Lunch, Jesus, Gordon, —, Eva Prinz, It’s, ” Moore, Gordon’s Organizations: Sonic Locations: Los Angeles, South America
☆ An Emo Band’s First U.S. Tour Began With a Robbery, but It Wasn’t All Sad
  + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Mike Ives | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
An international rock band’s first U.S. tour is a moment to be celebrated, a sign that years of hard work have paid off. “Then it really happened.”Forests and the Oklahoma band they were touring with, Ben Quad, are hardly the first musicians to be robbed while on tour in America. (In 1999, Sonic Youth famously lost an entire truck’s worth of gear to a thief, also in California.) But the experience was still a shock for a band from a country as safe as Singapore. “It was the worst luck ever,” said Chris Martinez, 29, a Forests fan from San Diego who discovered the band years ago on a business trip to Singapore.
☆ Punk icon Tom Verlaine, founder of the band Television, dies at 73
  + stars: | 2023-01-29 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +4 min
Tom Verlaine, who redefined rock guitar in the punk era of the 1970s with his band Television, died Saturday in Manhattan. Tom Verlaine’s soloing (and Richard Lloyd‘s as well, of course) showed me you could be a virtuoso and dangerous at the same time, more Coltrane or Ornette than the arena rockers of the day. In 2007, Lloyd was replaced in the touring unit by Jimmy Ripp, who had for many years supported Verlaine on his solo albums and tours. Only after his twin brother John played the Rolling Stones’ “19th Nervous Breakdown” and other contemporary rock records for him did Miller rethink his preferred instrument. Though he always boasted a devoted cult fan base, Verlaine never succeeded in attaining a commercial foothold on the charts; his 1981 sophomore solo album “Dreamtime,” his lone entry, peaked at No.
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