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Sonic Youth x 3

Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore’s unceremonious 2011 breakup was the end of Sonic Youth (not to mention the dream of long-term indie rock monogamy), but it hasn’t left the oddly tuned, feedback-squalled void in the music landscape we expected. If anything, it’s actually refilled it threefold.

For starters, Gordon revived her partnership with guitarist Bill Nace as Body/Head. Think Sonic Youth’s more overtly feminist, avant-garde noise-drone soundscapes, remove the drums and you’ve pretty much hit Body/Head on the, um, head. That band’s sprawling new double album, Coming Apart, just came out on Matador.

Chelsea Light Moving

Moore, meanwhile, brings his new band, Chelsea Light Moving, to the Horseshoe on Sunday (September 15). Like the coolest mid-life crisis ever, the guitarist’s beat-poetry-inspired project reimagines Sonic Youth as a heavy, energetic rock band with, of course, plenty of amp-abusing noise.

Finally, Sonic Youth’s perennially underrated George Harrison figure, Lee Ranaldo, has expanded his pseudo-solo project into a full band, Lee Ranaldo and the Dust, complete with former Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley. Relegated in Sonic Youth’s later years to one song per album, Ranaldo’s tuneful 60s-influenced roots, psych and folk-rock tunes finally have their own project. Lee Ranaldo and the Dust play the Horseshoe October 11.

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