Guardian Music — Recent pop revivalists have been euphoric or twee. Brace yourselves, then, for some dirty neo-noirHometown: Vancouver.The lineup: Alex Zhang Hungtai (vocals, music).The background: We're used to the 60s, 70s and 80s being plundered, and more recently... more info

Impose Magazine — Don Fleming is responsible for producing many of your favorite records by Sonic Youth, Andrew W.K., Hole, the Posies along with being a member of Half Japanese, Foot, Gravy, the Backbeat Band, Gumball and a solo artist in his own right. His first ban... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Classic Albums: Nirvana – Nevermind is a documentary DVD released by Eagle Vision in March 2005, as part of the Classic Albums series. It features interviews specifically for this release with members of the band and Nevermind album producer Butch... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — All Songs Considered is streaming a new Sonic Youth song from the forthcoming Three Lobed Records 4-LP box set Not the Spaces You Know, But Between Them. The Guardian profiles author Margaret Drabble. And what about "one of the biggest... more info

Guardian Music — 1987: Number 44 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance musicIn 1987, a new venue stumbled into life and illuminated that dark decade as a space where downtown experimentalists could find listeners: Steve Coleman and Bill Frisell m... more info

Guardian Music — High heels, whips, even a chocolate Jesus. You got down and dirty with kinky songsSome of your suggestions were brilliantly clever and witty: Duke Ellington's Rubber Bottom; Olivia Newton John's Hopelessly Devoted to You; the Ronettes' I Saw Mommy Ki... more info

Altsounds — Sonic Youth's *Lee Ranaldo *will perform a solo suspended guitar score for Buster Keaton's 1922 silent film Cops at ELLNORA | The Guitar Festival at Krannert Center in Urbana, Illinois, on September 9, 2011. Ranaldo's score for Krannert Center will... more info

Impose Magazine — Buster Keaton can project through silence; in the opening scenes of his 1922 silent film Cops, he stands opposite his love interest as she turns away from him, leaving him dejected behind a fence—his eyes seemingly full of turmoil and youthful desp... more info

KEXP Seattle — In the late ’80s, the members of Sonic Youth joined up with Mike Watt to form a joke band called Ciccone Youth (Ciccone, of course, being the given surname of the pop icon known as Madonna). Of course people forming joke bands and one-off experimen... more info

Guardian Music — Union Chapel, LondonIn his 30 years fronting New York art-rock perennials Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore has always looked to confound expectations. The cult star's latest solo project may just be his most surprising yet. Produced by Beck, Moore's recen... more info