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Lee Ranaldo

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

Listen to Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth) and Ian Williams (Battles) Bond over Bring It On

These experimental legends sat down for an episode of the Talkhouse Music Podcast.

Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth) and Ian Williams (Battles) Are Recording a Live Talkhouse Music Podcast in New York

The Talkhouse is taking up residence at Samsung 837. Join us for our next conversation.

April 8, 2016

Talkhouse Contributors Remember David Bowie

Stephin Merritt (Magnetic Fields), Kim Gordon, Merrill Garbus (Tune-Yards), Will Sheff (Okkervil River) and more pay tribute to an icon.

January 11, 2016

Various Artists (Rosanne Cash, Courtney Love, Michael Stipe and more) Talk Lou Reed

I was a bit in awe of Lou because of Magic and Loss. I thought that record was the most beautiful musical meditation on death I'd heard.

September 6, 2014

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