New writings from the member of the music group Sonic Youth. With photography by Cynthia Connolly.

Lengths & Breaths

Literature & Fiction

Ranaldo, Lee

Poetry

Water Row Pr

<p>"The secrets of the world revealed through radio static". Guitarist/ songwriter Lee Ranaldo's voice already haunts the repertoire of Sonic Youth with a salty, road-worthy wisdom. His songs include "Pipeline/Kill Time", "Eric's Trip", "Hey Joni", and "Skip Tracer". Road Movies is a companion volume, a trans-continental journey exploring the humming buzzing void of the road.</p>

Road Movies (Soft Skull Press)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

SOFT SKULL PRESS *

"JRNLS 80s" recounts the years Sonic Youth spent in used vans and sleeping on floors while waiting for the occasional good show to make it all worthwhile.144 pp.

Journals 80s: The Tour Diaries of Lee Ranaldo, from the Early Days of Sonic Youth

Soft Skull Pr

Road Movies is poetry by the guitarist of the seminal punk (and beyond) band Sonic Youth, who paved the way for the explosion of Nirvana and punk on to the mainstream music scene in the early nineties. They are arguably the most influential rock band of the late 1980's, and are living legends today.Road Movies is the literary equivalent of the dark and noisy waters of Sonic Youth's early work. His words mirror the beauty that can be discerned in the band's emotive walls of noise. As the title suggests, large parts of the book are inspired by time spent on the road with Sonic Youth. His words evoke the strange suprises and almost out of body clarity that occurs during travel.Interspersed with grainy photographs of road side fireworks stands, cigarette machines, and tractor trailer wheels, the book recalls the everyday things that, when taken out of context, become absolutely extraordinairy. In this way he tells, in flashes reminescent of the absolute freedom attained in the literature of Kerouac and Bukowski, the story of one restless mind's journey across and through America.

Road Movies

<p>The iconic postpunk band Sonic Youth is famed for blurring musical genres, veering from thundering rock to dismantled experimentalism, and expanding the possibilities of the electric guitar. "What we're doing is always inventing itself. I have no terminology for it," guitarist Thurston Moore observes. Moore and his bandmates Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley have also, over the course of 27 years since they first started playing together, more quietly engaged in multidisciplinary solo efforts and collaborations with visual artists, filmmakers, designers and other musicians. Numerous artists, from Richard Prince and Raymond Pettibon to Gerhard Richter have contributed artwork for Sonic Youth album covers, and Moore, Ranaldo and Gordon in particular have collaborated with visual artists; but the group has also produced a large amount of great ephemera over the decades. This comprehensive 784-page volume--which includes two 7-inch records with unpublished songs by each member, album covers, band portraits and documentary photos, many of which have never been published before--is a must for fans and anyone wanting to connect the dots between New York's various scenes. It features writings by band members and contributions by a host of other luminaries, including Richard Hell, Mike Kelley, Jutta Koether, Alan Licht, Lydia Lunch and John Miller.</p>

Sonic Youth: Sensational Fix

Arts & Photography

Moore, Thurston

GORDON, Kim

KELLEY, MIKE

Hell, Richard

Koether, Jutta

Alexander, Vikki

Miller, John.

Photography & Video

Walther Konig

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