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Jan 01, 1991Early Lee Ranaldo short film with spoken word narration. Utilizes some of the same Sonic Youth tour footage as the ‘TeenAge Riot’ video.
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Steve Shelley
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1991: The Year Punk Broke
Nov 19, 1992Documentaire de David Markey sur la vie sur la route avec Sonic Youth et Nirvana lors de leur tournée en Europe à la fin de 1991. Avec également des performances live de Dinosaur Jr, Babes in Toyland, The Ramones et Gumball.
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Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
Jun 08, 2004A compilation of 24 music videos by Sonic Youth ranging from 1990 to 2002. Collaborators include Harmony Korine, Spike Jonze, Todd Haynes, Mark Romanek, Richard Kern, and more.
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Sonic Youth: From The Basement
Jul 22, 2020Enjoy Sonic Youth’s full From The Basement set!
Track listing:
01:26 - The Sprawl
10:45 - Incinerate
16:15 - Hey Joni
20:42 - Jams Run Free
24:34 - Pink Steam Recorded August 2007
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Silver Rockets/Kool Things: 20 Years of Sonic Youth
Jan 01, 2000This portrait of the New York band Sonic Youth marking the band’s 20th anniversary covers its history from the beginnings to today. Numerous video clips and films of live gigs as well as interviews with, and reminiscences of, collaborators over the years will be used to document the musical development of one of the most innovative and influential bands of the last two decades. Contemporaries include former mentor Glenn Branca, composer and conductor of guitar symphonies which had a seminal influence on participating musicians such as Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore, who went on to become Sonic Youth’s guitarists. The band members‘ numerous creative arts projects and other musical activities – in particular improvised music – will be covered in depth.
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Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
Jul 04, 1996Live at Rocknacht, Germany 1996. Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from NewYork City, formed in 1981. In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the No Wave art and music scene in New York City. Part of the first wave of American noise rock groups, the band carried out their interpretation of the hardcore punk ethos throughout the evolving American underground that focused more on the DIY ethic of the genre rather than its specific sound. As a result, some consider Sonic Youth as pivotal in the rise of the alternative rock and indie rock movements.
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Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
Jul 03, 2005Sonic Youth's 2005 performance at Les Eurockéennes de Belfort festival, one of France's largest rock music festivals.
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Death Valley '69
Jan 01, 1986Death Valley '69 was the first music video by Sonic Youth. The video features the majority of the band in various states of bloody dismemberment interlaced with live footage of the band.
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Filmed April 12, 2003 at a benefit concert held at and for The Anthology Film Archives, the international center for the preservation, study, and exhibition of avant-garde and independent cinema. In addition to screening films for the public, AFA houses a film museum, research library and art gallery. The event, which raised money for the Archives and celebrated the life and work of avant-garde film maker Stan Brakhage, featured Sonic Youth providing an improvised instrumental collaboration with silent Brakhage’s films. The band performed with drummer/percussionist Tim Barnes (Essex Green, Jukeboxer, Silver Jews).
Blood on the Beach
Apr 01, 1995Sonic Youth's Blood on the Beach is comprised of two shows and interview clips recorded in November 1985 in Brighton, UK.
SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
May 27, 2019A fly-on-the-wall documentary about the recording of the music score by Sonic Youth.
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Goo
Jun 11, 1991In 1991, a long-form music video version of Goo was released on VHS and LaserDisc. A music video for each song from the album was included; the track listing was identical to that of the original album.
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365 Day Project
Dec 31, 2007This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007 and for an entire year, as indicated in the title, a large public (the artist's friends, as well as unknowns) were invited to view a diary of short films of various lengths (from one to twenty minutes) on the Internet. A movie was posted each day, adding to the previously posted pieces, resulting altogether in nearly thirty-eight hours of moving images.
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Sois là pour m'aimer
Sep 13, 2004À travers des extraits de ses concerts, de ses archives filmées et de ses interviews, ce remarquable documentaire retrace avec sensibilité les expériences formatrices ainsi que les hauts et les bas, existentiels et artistiques, de Townes Van Zandt – du début de sa carrière musicale, inspirée par les premiers disques de Bob Dylan et par Lightnin' Hopkins, barde légendaire du blues, jusqu'à sa mort précoce après un accident. Ses managers, ses enfants, ses trois épouses successives et de nombreux amis musiciens éclairent sa personnalité et laissent transparaître toute l’affection qu’ils portaient à ce troubadour maudit.
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(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
Sep 12, 2004While planning the eventual DVD release for "1991: The Year Punk Broke", Dave Markey cut a 40-minute film out of unused footage to create a companion piece to include. The film was also shown to a handful of lucky audiences before the DVD's eventual release in 2011. It's an awesome bonus with tons of great footage that could have easily been in the film. These songs were probably the best to leave out of the full-length film, since 2 were brand new and still quite shaky. The only tour staple not accounted for in either film is "Mary-Christ". Here are the sources I could determine: Inhuman - ?? White Kross - 08/27/91 Bremen Orange Rolls, Angel's Spit - 08/24/91 Koln In Bloom (Nirvana) - 09/01/91 Rotterdam Eric's Trip - 09/01/91 Rotterdam (but spoken intro is from 08/25/91?) Tunic snippet - 08/27/91 Bremen Chapel Hill - 08/27/91 Bremen
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Desolation Center
Mar 16, 2018The untold story of a series of Reagan-era guerrilla punk and industrial desert happenings in Southern California that are now recognized as the inspiration for Burning Man, Lollapalooza, and Coachella. Interviews and rare performance footage of Sonic Youth, Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Redd Kross, Einstürzende Neubauten, Survival Research Laboratories, Savage Republic, Swans and more.
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Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage
Sep 18, 2003Quintessential alternative rockers, Sonic Youth, celebrate free-form experimentalism while reinforcing their performance-art driven tradition in this Soundstage performance, recorded on May 7, 2003 at WTTW Grainger Studio in Chicago. The band, which settles just outside the realm of definition, delivers a part rock, part free-form noise, part avant-garde punk performance which features a new song "Sympathy for the Strawberry."
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Put More Blood Into the Music
Aug 06, 1988PBS produced documentary in two parts: the first is dedicated to saxophonist and composer John Zorn; the second is about Sonic Youth at the height of their powers in 1988.
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Daydream Nation
Feb 23, 2019A concert film of Sonic Youth performing their Daydream Nation album in full at the ABC in Glasgow in 2007.
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Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond
Aug 17, 2019As a fixture of the New York music scene for 30 years, Sonic Youth performed in New York City innumerable times, and served as ersatz cultural ambassadors for the city when traveling. As part of the 2019 Rooftop Films programming, Sonic Youth will present a New York-specific collection of film and videos from their private archives. Much of the material to be presented is completely unseen, threaded together with a few items which are out there in the public knowledge but here presented from the best source available to the band.
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Noise
Jun 15, 2006Juin 2005, un moment important d’art moderne se déroule sur deux scènes du Festival Art Rock de Saint Brieuc. Olivier Assayas immortalise la veille des concerts, des conférences et du cinéma expérimental dans ce documentaire – un laboratoire virtuel d’images se mélangeant à des sons variés.
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Hello Hello Hello: Lee Ranaldo, Electric Trim
May 05, 2017Filmed during dozens of recording sessions, Hello Hello Hello is a story of the creative process - Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth) collaborating with producer Raül Refree, across a year and 3,842 miles with a little help from their friends. Novelist Jonathan Lethem (Motherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude) plays writer/lyricist/muse to Ranaldo's artist/composer wanderings, across soundscapes created alongside friends and musical guest artists including Nels Cline (Wilco), Sharon Van Etten, Alan Licht, Kid Millions (Oneida), and Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth). Theirs is an unusually intimate and personal process in the creation of Ranaldo's album, Electric Trim (Mute, 2017), a bold, new sound and a lush and striking departure from Ranaldo's signature work.
The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
Oct 27, 1995Comedy troupe The State hosts a Halloween special on CBS.
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Skeeno H.C. Rules
Aug 16, 1991Sonic Youth play hockey arena w/ Neil Young in Reno, Nevada. Ten years earlier 7 Seconds recorded the earnest hardcore classic "Skins, Brains, & Guts" EP. The town was known as Skeeno. Audio recorded especially for the film by Society's Ills, a band consisting of Mike Watt (bass), Thurston (vocals), Dez Cadena (guitar), & David Markey (drums), who cover said EP.
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Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
Nov 14, 2011
Sonic Youth: Live in Rio 2000
Oct 19, 2000Goo
Jun 11, 1991In 1991, a long-form music video version of Goo was released on VHS and LaserDisc. A music video for each song from the album was included; the track listing was identical to that of the original album.
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Goo
Jun 11, 1991In 1991, a long-form music video version of Goo was released on VHS and LaserDisc. A music video for each song from the album was included; the track listing was identical to that of the original album.
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Made in U.S.A.
Oct 15, 1987Two men from Pennsylvania give up hope in their small run down coal mining town, and head off in search of the beaches of California. The two steal cars as they travel across the USA and are joined by a wild young woman.
Crime
Things Behind the Sun
Oct 12, 2001A young music journalist's dark memories are awakened when he goes to interview a female rock singer, and both are forced to confront troubling secrets from their pasts.
Drama
Demonlover
Nov 06, 2002A young music journalist's dark memories are awakened when he goes to interview a female rock singer, and both are forced to confront troubling secrets from their pasts.
Drama
SubUrbia
Feb 07, 1997A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.
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