Altsounds — Violent Soho have gone from self-releasing their debut in their native Australia to signing to Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace! label, home to Be Your Own Pet, Free Kitten, Awesome Color and other freak-rockers. Ecstatic Peace! step ... more info

Guardian Music — China's underground scene is making noise music so feral that it will have you running for your chillwave collectionAway from China's mainstream rock scene – where shoe brands spend their budgets building tour buses to take the country's equiv... more info

Guardian Music — The excavation of late 70s and early 80s New York music has shone light on yet another neglected disco genius – Peter GordonLate 70s and early 80s New York has been the most thoroughly excavated section of pop music history in recent years â�... more info

DrownedInSound — Ever since the news was announced that Thurston Moore was to 'lecture' some very young people about the wonder of white noise and related music we hoped that someone who was present would record something. Now our wish has been granted (via TwentyFou... more info

Pitchfork — Photo by Kathryn Yu Velvet-smooth vintage hitmaker Burt Bacharach has all sorts of admirers: Elvis Costello, Dr. Dre, Austin Powers. Add Jim O'Rourke to the list. TwentyFourBit points out that postrock pioneer and current Japan resident O'Rourke pr... more info

Stereogum — Jim O’Rourke’s Burt Bacharach tribute album is only out in Japan. But this cover of “(There’s) Always Something There To Remind Me” made it to YouTube, where it can join the hundreds of other covers of this classic track (from Dionne Warwic... more info

Totally Fuzzy — eye of sound said... Never Trust Your Mother-In-Law: - Piotr Kamler & Bernard Parmegiani - Une Mission Ephémère (1993) http://thesoundofeye.blogspot.com Debbie D said... Rudy Ray Moore - Ring A Ling Dong Jimmy Lynch - Notions Of Mr. Motion ht... more info

NME — The event will take place in New York on April 11 more info

DrownedInSound — Avant Garde Preschool may sound like an utterly and ludicrously pretentious 'thing' and that's partly because it most likely is one. Nevertheless, the New York-based programme (if you can call it that) is to feature one Thurston Moore, of Sonic Youth... more info

Undercover, Australia — Sonic Youth front man Thurston Moore will be giving a lecture on noise to kids aged eight to twelve. more info