Lee Ranaldo
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Lee Ranaldo co-founded Sonic Youth in 1981. His latest album, with Raül Refree, Names of North End Women, came out February 21 via Mute Records.
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Hockets for Two Voices Is an Audio Illusion
Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth) fell under the spell of Meara O’Reilly’s latest album.
April 6, 2020
Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth) Talks with Ian Williams (Battles) for the Talkhouse Podcast
The experimental guitar legends talk avant-garde recording sessions, NYC music scenes through the years, and Wilco's instrument collection.
October 24, 2019
Draw the Blinds and Let Wanderer Wash Over You
“I don’t need to pull the album apart and put it back together again to know how it makes me feel.”
October 26, 2018
Circuit des Yeux’s Magical, Spiritual Progress
Each song on Reaching for Indigo is its own little self-contained movie.
January 18, 2018
Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth) Talks the Grateful Dead’s Sunshine Daydream
To start with the pertinent facts: the new concert documentary Sunshine Daydream (just out on DVD) is the early-'70s Grateful Dead as I love...
September 21, 2013




