Thurston Moore @nowjazznow Twitter profile

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Thurston Moore

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11 months

Sonic Youth will always be Youth Against Fascism. This Goo/Pettibon mashup is a joke about right wing Milei’s hair. Essentially its about voting for Massa to remain & stopping the pro-police state Milei from taking power. Vote for humanitarianism ✌️❤️All love to Argentina

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Spotify sucks. My music, Sonic Youth and solo, is on it as a matter of course but I never utilize it per listening. It is a shameless systematic rip off of working musicians.

United Musicians and Allied Workers

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One stat you won’t find in your Spotify Wrapped is how much artists are paid for all that listening on the platform. The max possible in 2023 is $0.003 per stream. And in 2024, Spotify will stop paying anything AT ALL for 2/3 of the tracks on the platform.

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Went by the book stalls outside Strand yesterday thinking I’d see you as usual, have a smoke, talk about rare poetry finds for a couple of hours, downtown NYC racing by our slow meditations on music, writing - gonna miss you Tom. TV Rest In Peace.

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Is noise now Dad Rock?

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They really were one of a kind

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Still the best

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12 YEARS AGO TODAY: (Sep. 12th 2011) 🎥 Azealia Banks released the music video for her debut single, 212

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28. How do you play guitar? You play against fascism, sexism, racism, anti-semitism and greed capitalist entitlement. Fight em all. Noise is for heroes.

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Patti Smith Remembers Tom Verlaine

“He possessed the child’s gift of transforming a drop of water into a poem that somehow begat music.”

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When a group truly becomes a force of nature transcending the tradition.

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Joy Division - Transmission

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Bloody excellent

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My Bloody Valentine You Made Me Realise Television show “Plastic”

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One of the greatest bands

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Built to Spill Time Trap HBO’s Reverb (1999)

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1. Don’t play guitar like anyone else.

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Booked by Arthur Russell who was the Kitchen’s music director then. First real “rock” band at the Kitchen other than Jonathan Rich man’s acoustic gig.

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Dear friends I’m advised by doctors to cancel my upcoming SONIC LIFE book tour in the USA.I’ve been dealing with a health condition and this year it’s become debilitating.I’ve been reassured refunds will be issued to every ticket holder. Sending peace & love-Thurston

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I forgot we even did this

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The Backbeat Band “Money” Backbeat: Music from the Motion Picture Virgin Records (1994) Director: Nick Egan FEATURING Greg Dulli (Afghan Whigs) / Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) / Mike Mills (R.E.M.) / Dave Grohl (Nirvana) / Don Fleming (Gumball)

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Kinda excellent

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Cat Power “Cross Bones Style” Moon Pix Matador Records (1998) Director: Brett Vapnek

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Fractured and gorgeous.

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Pavement “Shady Lane” Brighten the Corners Matador Records (1997) Director: Spike Jonze

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Can we have a Sun Ra statue? Yes! John Coltrane? Yes! Angela Davis. Yes!!!!

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Now I Wanna Eat Yr Dog

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64 yrs on this planet and just today realizing Eno’s “Kings Lead Hat” was an anagram of “Talking Heads”

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One of the best rock n roll interviews ever

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Happy birthday to The Jesus and Mary Chain's Jim Reid, who is 62 today. Here's Jim, jokingly, slagging off the Sex Pistols and Joy Division in a Belgian TV interview in 1986, much to the disbelief of the presenter. Bobby Gillespie is otherwise distracted.

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39. Keith Levene forever. Guitar playing will never be the same.

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Dictators raged so hard in 77, too metal for Punk,too punk for Metal;they were their own invention,Manitoba subverting the image of singer, Adny penning lyrics wholly informed by Meltzer/Bangs,the band a hot wired manifestation of a comic really had it all

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46 years ago CBGB, New York City, August 1977 Dictators - Search & Destroy #punk #punkrock #cbgb #dictators #nyc #history #punkrockhistory

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A pleasure to announce the release of my memoir, SONIC LIFE published Oct from @DoubledayBooks US + Faber & Faber UK “This is history—scuffed, slightly bent, plenty noisy, and indispensable.” —Colson Whitehead Limited US release right now from: @BooksandBooks

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With so much buffoonery noise out there, nazi ding dongs sieg-heiling with impunity in DeSantis-land etc - thank heavens for the true sounds of American genius, soul and vision that we can hear forever from such artists as Horace Silver.

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Remembering the great Horace Silver who was born on this day in 1928. Silver was a pre-eminent founder of what became known as hard bop or soul jazz, an extension of bebop, with elements of rhythm and blues, gospel, and Latin-American music added. His piano style, terse,

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EdFromOhio knew his away around a post punk pop tune - this band would always be in the shadow of the Minutemen but they were consistently excellent

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fIREHOSE Choose Any Memory Public access TV show from 1987 called "Rockstock"

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25. Remove the two middle strings of yr gtr and write as many instant mayhem punk nugget killer tunes you can in one day. Make a cassette and make it fast.

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20. Throw yr guitar at a Van Gogh.

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23. It’s ok to sell all yr records to buy a guitar. Then you can make yr own record.

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The kids will have their say

Cʜʀɪs Sᴛᴇɪɴ

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This should be the Dune 3 soundtrack

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I hate Coca-Cola!

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Happy birthday Love Yoko!

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Guns are not cool

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Chile 🇨🇱 against fascism!!! Bravo!!!!!!!!!!!!!! @ Chile

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While wholly serious in his analysis he also seemed to be able to write it all off at the end of the day as being alive in an absurd universe. Alongside his set-in-stone scowl was always a genuinely soulful smile.

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The Legacy of Sonic Youth

Michael Azerrad: "The Legacy of Sonic Youth"

How the band reached beyond music to define a scene.

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So perfect still

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Sebadoh “Rebound” Bakesale Sub Pop Records (1994) Director: Michael Thomas Flood

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He seemed to have a bemused realization of his own staunch judgement towards factionalism, us versus them, the capitalist colonization agenda of the recording industry coexisting with the socialist minded independent music world.

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24. You don’t have to be a mean person to play mean guitar.

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14. For 1 to ♾ of guitarists: Tune each string to same note. Incrementally detune each string in any order & at any rate of strum until all strings become percussive noise. Once accomplished keep cranking yr volume up til the clatter shatters all rational notions of sonance.

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Screw all venues who take percentages of artist’s merch sales. Pass it on. Greedy bs. Always been a drag. And embarrassing (for them).

The Lovely Eggs 🥚 📺

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We were robbed last night. By @O2ApolloManc who took 30% of our merch sales. Also forced to sell T shirts for £35. Found out last minute. Tried to fight it. But management wouldn’t listen. This shit will kill DIY bands like us. O2 Apollo you should be ashamed of yourself.

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He could articulate, from a surprisingly young age, with intelligent and intellectual passion, reasons not to set foot in the manipulative cogs of “major” label indignity.

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The best

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31. Guitars can howl, yowl, shriek, sputter, scream, dream, steam, shatter sonic boom bash, crash, sing, sting and cry but they will not twitter.

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8. Twist tuning pegs while open strumming until the chord you never knew you were looking for is conjured forth gifting you the song’s foundation.

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He was an artist, a musician, a recording engineer, a high functioning decoder allowing for a plethora of poker winnings and pool table mastery. He loved the clean, solid, stylish simplicity of a classic Zippo lighter.

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Murder, Muggers, and Rottweilers: Stories From My Best, Worst Apartment

In this excerpt from his new memoir, Thurston Moore, of Sonic Youth, remembers life in Alphabet City, 1978.

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And no matter how many times he'd sign off his written and oral missives with a middle finger raised high in the air he seemed to absolutely love the world and its people. While his recent self-analysis on social media would express regret for youthful insolence it never

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I remember meeting Steve when Big Black first came to NYC in the early 80s. Byron Coley and Jimmy Johnson from Forced Exposure had driven down for the gig and we all gathered in whatever the Danceteria dressing room hovel was.

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I recognized immediately their fascination with this voice from Chicago – Steve Albini – who immediately proved himself to be as vociferous and cutting and acerbic and hilarious as they were. Big Black made sonic manifest the tenor of this crossfire.

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day-to-day operations could, many times, be a mystery. His analogies of a recording engineer not being any more important than a plumber came across as certainly endearing. But Steve was not a plumber.

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Steve, like the many other inspired people he admired, was drawn to, and would find himself working with – be it Whitehouse or Nirvana – was an authentic visionary, a person alive with the delight of creative impulse.

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5. Turn the amp up just loud enough where feedback becomes playful. Take it from there.

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If only she had her own fanzine back then

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#FallFriday

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16. Fuck pedals ©

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Byron and Jimmy had recently. sat down with Sonic Youth to interview us for their zine around that time and I had just gotten to know those two, connecting to their wide open, record collecting mania, their exuberance of attitude in critiquing the nascent explosions of post-punk

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He would become utterly disenchanted at SY for signing on with Geffen in 1990 considering it an abandonment of principle. Of course, we’d argue this; the transparent accounting and health care offered by a corporate label versus the artistic freedom of an independent label where

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3. Close your eyes. Improvise. And breathe.

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and post-no wave and post -hard core, introducing avant-garde jazz and other musics to so many green and hungry minds, mine included.

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That zine-conscious gathering sparked off a life-long camaraderie between us goons, along with so many other self-made wildly-opinionated minds – Gerard Cosloy, Lydia Lunch et al – regardless of whatever personal ups-and-downs would occur throughout the subsequent decades.

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Steve began writing for FE with Big Black and SY sharing stages and kipping on apartment floors together while crisscrossing the planet (hats off to Carlos van Hifjte in Eindhoven.)

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26. Billie Holiday wanted her voice to sound like Lester Young’s saxophone. Sonny Sharrock wanted his guitar to sound like Pharaoh Sanders’. Play yr guitar thinking of Billie Holiday’s voice. Play the blues.

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4. Develop guitar string scraping technique as equal value to notes, chords et al.

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21. Play the surreal. A guitar is not necessarily a guitar.

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It’s not Biden vs Trump. It’s ME vs Trump.

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2. The sound of fingers on the strings.

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Eternal

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29. If yr guitar is acting up shake it. If that doesn’t work then blow on it. That usually’ll do the trick.

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thurston moore + keiji haino / tokyo

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The Quietus has always had its heart in the place where music transcends any imperious critique - for the most part, certainly besting any other rag out there. Always a dynamic read.

The Quietus

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The Quietus has regenerated. Welcome to our new realm of cultural discovery, devilment and debate. #CultureCountered

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17. Give it a rest. Don’t play every day.

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33. Maybe the guitar is the poet and you are the note.

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18. You can play every day if that’s yr thing. There are no rules. Just keep yr guitar in yr thoughts.

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A visionary amongst visionaries. Pharaoh forever.

Pharoah Sanders & Sonny Sharrock - Live in Frankfurt 1992 full concert

Recorded at Deutsches Jazz Festival Frankfurt, Germany, 1st of November 1992. Awesome free jazz in good quality. Features Pharoah Sanders - saxes, Sonny Shar...

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9. Pet your sounds.

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Beautiful

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A visual demonstration of the power of sound to create order out of chaos.

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22. Guitars, basses and any strings rubbing up against each other is always good good good vibrations.

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27. The guitar is perfectly hermaphrodite. You can “jack yr strat” (as patti said of jimi) or stroke the body with selflessness. Or both. Transguitar rules.

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30. Some guitarists are said to “eat guitar for breakfast” implying that they live and breathe guitar. I prefer to drink guitar leaving the mastication to cornbread, hot buttered peas, dumplings, trofie pasta, spaetzle, tempura udon and succotash. My guitar is vegetarian.

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7. Tap into drone, the colors resonant along your neck.

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The only two words I’m interested in right now are CODIFY and ROE.

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Decide from your heart, mind & soul: Cultural Boycott

Cultural Boycott

Israel overtly uses culture as a form of propaganda to whitewash or justify its regime of occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid over the Palestinian people. Just as South African anti-apart...

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The biggest names in rock

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37. Study. Meditate. Respond. Transcend ego. Tuck yr axe into bed and power chord the right wing rat attack.

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Glorious

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To James Sedwards who is 50 today. You opened a huge new sonic portal for me when I moved to London a dozen years back. Allowed me to breathe music again with your otherworldly technique and patience and enthusiasm. 🙏 eternally grateful my friend 🙏 Immeasurable love+respect🎸🎸

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10a. With closed or soft eyes, as in meditation, stroke any single note with a modest attack, then continue to stroke a new successive note, with the same rate of attack, one note after another, the space between each being your choice, the composition ending any time you wish.

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11a. Listen to Christina Carter’s sublime claw and flutter, Albert King’s exalted blues prayer, Derek Bailey’s trusting in the ghosts of technique, Lita Ford’s shred as a force of nature, Ron Asheton’s thrall to rock n roll consciousness…

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6. Allow your guitar to divine Godhead. Enjoy the ride.

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Very cool - we also wore that cassette out in the tour van!

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We Screaming Trees wore out our cassette copy of Up On the Sun, touring the Northern Americas. And opening for the Puppets was always a top stop along the long strange trip.

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Noise-Rocker Thurston Moore Stays Radical on His New Solo Release

Thurston Moore Stays Radical on His New Solo Release

The Sonic Youth founding member is best known for his uniquely experimental approach to the guitar. On his latest solo release, Flow Critical Lucidity, he only proves to further that reputation,...

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35. This guitar does not follow or need to be followed. It sounds killer with or without social interaction. Like these words it exists preternaturally. Technocracy is an artless dalliance. True feedback is soul power.

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Schizomerica

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Great hangin out with ya TB!!

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Thurston and Me

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Rest In Peace Takehisa Kosugi, the times spent playing music with you will never fade. You are and were the real deal.

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15. Burning guitars give you so much more.

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19. Rehearsing and practicing are the same difference.

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Just got galleys of U.S. edition of Sonic Life from @doubledaybooks Psyched!Books & Books in Coral Gables, FLA is the only indie store w/pre-orders of 1st edition signed copies. Very few remaining or so I gather ❤️ @BooksandBooks

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David Sanborn rest in peace

Sonic Youth - Silver Rocket Live on Michelob Presents Night Music...

Live performance of 'Silver Rocket' from the band's album 'Daydream Nation' which is celebrating its 30th anniversary.Listen to the full album: http://smartu...

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