Upon releasing their strongest effort to date, and holding a coveted lineup spot for the upcoming eclectic Coachella Festival, Phantom Planet is allowing their ghoulish name and brash music to speak for itself.
Sonic Youth has wrapped work on its next album, “Sonic Youth Nurse.” The set is due in June via DGC/Interscope and is the follow-up to 2002’s “Murray Street.” Like that album, it was recorded at the band’s Echo Canyon studios in lower Manhattan and produced by the band with Jim O’Rourke.
According to a source, the record makes further inroads into the classic-rock sounds Sonic Youth explored on “Murray Street,” which was recorded in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
Sonic Youth has a handful of tour dates on the horizon, including a March 16 appearance at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, and a previously announced benefit concert April 30 at Smith College in Northampton, Mass. The group will also be on hand April 3 for the U.K.’s annual All Tomorrow’s Parties festival.
The group is continuing work on its SYR series of experimental LP releases, with the next edition set to include a recording from the 2001 All Tomorrow’s Parties fest. An expanded reissue of Sonic Youth’s 1990 album “Goo” is also in the offing.
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