Feeding Tube is also a shop and I'm sure they must do mailorder.

They do but not for this release it seems... I've tried contacting the owner of the shop but I haven't had a reply yet.



Another shitty bootleg by the looks of it, which the band probably won't get any money from... I don't get how shops like Rough Trade are allowed to sell these? I'll probably still buy it at some point :rolleyes:

Never gonna buy anything straight from Feeding Tube ever.

Why's that?

wait seriously? I only bought it cuz I thought it was legit - being thru Rough Trade and all. Fuck.

Can we confirm one way or another? I really don't care enough about bootlegs to be spending $ on em.

I still feel ripped off on that Liberty Lunch, although I guess Thurston did at least acknowledge the band knew about that one or were semi-behind it?

They treated me badly one time and that was enough to me.

C`mooon noise! When I saw the cover of that album I immediately know it is bootleg. Have you seen any mentions from it in the bands official sites? When Smart Bar came it was really much advertised long time before it was released. But I don´t think you should stress about it. SY doesn´t seem to care anything about bootlegs (it´s not a long time I saw GOO in a clear vinyl and first and confusion that are total bootlegs). Sometimes it´s of course hard to know with this band which is official (I believed also at first Glitterbust is also bootleg but decided to order it anyway). I have always think bootlegs that release something not already released are totally ok. Hope that one have good sound quality.

I have been mad when thinking buying original album getting a bootie (Tom Waits Black Rider, P J Harvey Dry, of course I should´ve know they´re bootlegs because they weren´t as expensive they should be).

And these days bootlegs are in the legit shops, I have bought many from them.

yeah it's just that I care about collecting the official discography. I'm not as quick to part with my money for unofficial bootleg stuff tho.

I went to Feeding Tube last year and Byron Coley was an absolute gent.

This is the label behind Burning Down In The Night: https://www.discogs.com/label/594462-SAT-Records
Not much doubt about their status..

Dammit.

Well, if you wait few years, I don´t think you have problems to get rid of it...also possible get more money from it than you put it.

And about official discography...I don´t think I will ever have all the Thurston official solo stuff (it´s just so huge), maybe also not Lee´s too. Also I am not into all SY official singles (all official albums I have, well not Hold that tiger and Battery Park, I think Hold that is official bootleg : )).

I don't have all the singles either. And I don't hardcore collect the solo stuff.

BUT, I have all official Sonic Youth albums and EP's that were released on CD; this includes the official bootlegs that were released on CD as well.

I got rhythm, I got music, I got my SY, who could ask for anything more?

Kim teamed up with bestselling Norwegian author Jo Nesbo to narrate his 2015 crime novel Midnight Sun.

you can purchase audiobook here:
http://www.amazon.com/Midnight-Sun-n.../dp/055354599X

here's a snippet from a soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/billboard/kim...un-by-jo-nesbo

Some high resolution filesets are already showing up at the Pono Store: Goo, Dirty (including "Stalker"), Washing Machine and "The Diamond Sea" (3-track "single" or whatever you wanna call it), all in 24-bit/192kHz.

Wow. I'd be very interested to hear more about these from someone close to the band...and anyone who's taken the plunge. :D

One thing for sure is that it is louder than a motherfucker

Well, "HD audio" doesn't mean "loudness war remaster". In fact, it doesn't necessarily mean remaster at all. In Pono's case, it means that they go back to the masters and make a new transfer to digital at the highest possible resolution (because of the way some albums were recorded, they can't be transferred all the way to 24/192; they may have to stop at, say, 24/88.2 or something). A bogus "upscale" from the existing 16/44.1 resolution to 24/[x kHz] without going back to the master recordings is a no-NO.

What would actually make the HD files louder than a motherfucker is to commit the unspeakable crime of compressing them to mp3. Then you'd get clipping and extraneous distortion and all kinds of fuckedupness.

The Sister repress is up on discogs: https://www.discogs.com/Sonic-Youth-...elease/8224662
The runouts suggest it's pressed from the same masters as the ORG issue from a few years back.

I get that it doesnt necessarily mean loudness war remaster. But I listened to the 24/96 downsampled Goo from Pono, and its loud as hell.

I bought the 3 albums but not the Washing Machine single. I think they sound really good, but they are not profound improvements over the last batch of CDs. The reason for the sample rate is to reproduce frequencies at up to half that rate- so for the 192 SY titles, they can produce sound at up to 96 khz, which is way way way above what you can actually hear as sound. I personally top out at like 17 khz, which is a combination of age and the good folks at Marshall. Anyway, there's a ton of debate on whether the extended frequencies that you can't directly hear influence what you can. I just want the best possible copy of all my favorite albums and do think there are subtle improvements when you go high rez digital. Particular to the SY titles, a better sense of the space these songs were recorded in, and increased dimension of the textures.

But keep in mind this audiophile stuff can veer on bullshit real quickly. The more amplified and intentionally distorted music is, the less dramatic it is in an audiophile situation (why these dudes usually are into classical and jazz and stuff like Steely Dan). It also should be said that with run of the mill gear, you're probably not going to be able to hear much difference at all.

That's absolutely true. When I got my Pono player I knew I had to upgrade my bullcrap $10 earphones. I got a pair of $150 VSonics which sound really beautiful to me, but I know there's even better stuff out there ($150 was all I had at the time, so...).


Damn!

Cashed in a favor from my friend who lives up there a few weeks back. She's in town visiting and brought this back for me. Will report back after i listen.

You son of a bitch.
;)

I got one too! :p

Bad Bonn Song Book
https://www.editionpatrickfrey.com/e...lard-katharina

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AY3Wmcw8Lec

this is probably first time I am seeing T + E together like that "officially". interesting. oh, wait, I have seen them together in Belfast when he played with John Moloney. I did not realize it was her at the time...she was filming the gig on the side of the stage.

I think this will be a fine evening at transpecos

TUES 3/29 - $12 Advance / $15 Door
8PM
NYCTAPER presents Chuck Johnson, Lee Ranaldo, Ancient Ocean

I'm listening to it now for the first time. Only a few minutes into it so far but what I have noticed is the person who recorded this must have had (or was very close to someone who had) breathing problems. The heavy breathing is spoiling it a bit for me I'm sad to say. I hope it doesn't continue throughout...

EDIT: Thankfully you can only hear the heavy breathing at the start and end of the record.

Stu, it´s art, can´t you understand :)

I want Terry's Carrot on vinyl.

I was really hoping that the live album that came out a couple of years ago was going to be the start of an annual archival release project. I know I sound like a broken record, but plz bring on more live albums, bsides/outtakes collections, unreleased SYR's, anything anything!

^^uh, your blog or website still doesn't work noise. ???

From Aadam Jacobs' Facebook:

After my obligatory jobs running the lights for improv shows tonight, I scurried over the The Empty Bottle to catch what I could of Thurston Moore's band. I had a great conversation with Debbie Googe and was honored with a kiss goodbye! Steve Shelley gave me some of my old Sonic Youth tapes back and told me the story about SYR 6. He also showed me an upcoming SY archival release that will blow your fucking pants off (no spoilers).

The anticipation...I wonder if it's a hold that tiger reissue, or another Sister-era live show.

OMG! YES! WHAT IS IT! YES!

missed that show last night due to a cold...>Dammit.