So have SOnic Youth played their last show?
 

I cant see them ever playing again unless its some huge reunion thing. what ya think?

I think it might be over

If they do split, the only thing that would bother me is that the last time I saw them live I had no idea that could/would be the last.
For all the rest I'm just grateful.

They still haven't done MTV Unplugged.

Defenitly hope not.

What about the Demolished Thoughts tour?

They should go. I wasn't expecting to read the sort of things that have been floating around the internet though. Utter respect one way or another.

i think they probably have as i cant see them doing a 'this is our final tour' moneymaker. they all have their own projects so they will probably work on those from now on. they have been downhill for a good few years now so its probably time to let it go.

If that was their last show, I feel like it's weird it wsn't in NYC.

VU's last gig wasn't in NYC either. They decided that the city hated them. Who can tell about these things, if not the band themselves?

Plus, I'm afraid nothing could beat the setlist they put up for the last NYC gig they did.

yeah. I don't know. I guess I just feel like it being anywhere but NYC is sort of like... oh... that's it? It's over? Doesn't feel "real" or official to me. Who knows if it's true anyway.

Beautiful, epic, wondrous, stupendous. If that's the last Sonic Youth show I attended, it was my honor to stand in that crowd on that night.

It's hard to say! I am not sure it is fair to say whether one concert was ''the last one'' or not because, in almost all cases they play every concert as though it is their last. : ) Every concert they have played could have been their last in a parallel reality. :0

I guess about making new albums, they are not sure if they would be allowed to put out something really strange, which Thurston was discussing earlier this year. We would let them :) But maybe they are not sure which direction to take and would rather put off making the decision, and give Lee the spotlight for what sounds like a beautiful... and long awaited by fans and others alike ...record!

Splitting up is a good thing in that they may decide to put a little more effeort in a lot of this rubbish they create solo. Thurston Moore, for instance, could start with learning how to play the acoustic guitar before he tries making psych folk records.

Kim Gordon could do with learning about painting and stop producing work similar to fucking Sylvester Stallone in his conceptual phase too.

hmmm, where's your album? did Drag City come knocking at your door to release some of your wonderful unheard of shit? wow get real dude.

As it happens, I'll never want ANY deal. Come say that to my face if you got balls.

i would like to see thurston work on more electric jazz collaborations and noise than acoustic stuff because the folk stuff he is doing is so dull it hurts. i saw him a month or so ago and it was just painful. i left.

I dont care much for his straight noise thingies. But I really really love his improv stuff with free jazz dudes. Hurricane Floyd is amazing. And I like stuff like Piece for Jetsun Dolma, The Promise, 3 Incredible Ideas, Fuck Shit Up, and so on...

Only if you consider the post-Lou Velvets to be the Velvets.

I don't.

i hate to read a lot of idiots that think that it was their last show that's really a NON-SENSE!!! THE BAND NEVER ANNOUNCE IT AS THEIR LAST SHOW.
if they ( maybe) split it's obvious that they're going to be a special show ( NYC ?) and finally i watched them in Chile and i have to say that the whole band enjoyed the show, Thurston and Kim played like if they never had thought in finish the band. IT WAS NOT A FORCED SHOW

I agree.

Indeed. Lou's last gig was at Max's. /pedantic derail

Well, the band did state that the future of the band is uncertain beyond the South American shows. I don't think it exactly makes one an idiot to assume this may have been their last show. Either way, I doubt there will be many more.

from Lee (incase anyone missed it)

DD: You’ve been friends for over thirty years, and even your non-Sonic Youth projects tend to feature collaborations with each other. Could you ever imagine a time when you didn’t play together?

LR: Well, we’ll have to see what the future holds right now. Steve and I are certainly working together right now on this band project of mine, and I’d be surprised if we all didn’t work on things, whether all together or in smaller groupings, at some point in the future. At this time, the fate of the band is not determined. I expect a prolonged hibernation, at very least, after the upcoming dates we have in South America next month. Plus, we have so much history, so much work together that, no matter what. there will be so many things to tie us together in the future for quite some time…historical, archival releases and other projects of that sort. My motto tends to be “change is good” and I'm hopeful that applies in this case. Anyway, I’m happy to leave it at that for the moment.

full interview here: http://www.magentamagazine.com/8/features/lee-ranaldo

I laughed.

Dang, even though a hiatus is probably the best thing, I dread a year without SY.