• critical stalker

    Chloë Sevigny: Sonic Youth's Ice Princess

    Big Love (and other, weirder stuff) actress Chloë Sevigny was spotted over the weekend jamming out at a Sonic Youth concert with Yo La Tengo's Ira Kaplan. Some disapproving, fellow VIP section member sent us a sighting complete with name-calling and ass-bashing. And yet, whole worlds away, a mysterious would be Romeo posted a similar sighting on Craigslist, hoping for the bobo queen to give him a call. What different passions you stoke, Chloë. Read from the Sevigny files after the jump. More »
  • cultural gentrification

    Thurston Moore: "Starbucks Is The New Record Store"

    Aged downtown art rock gods Sonic Youth have signed a deal with Starbucks to do a celebrity-compiled Sonic Youth sampler CD. Why? Can they not afford the hip replacements or something? So Marc Jacobs and Portia de Rossi apparently will choose their favorite Sonic Youth songs and off it'll go to sit in front of the register, right up there with the Alison Krauss and the Maroon 5 and the Mitch Albom. Awesome. The sad part is that Marc Jacobs might not be smart enough to actually identify a song. Or the band. This is, after all, the man who once introduced "The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant" at a Soho House screening as a "great movie about fashion." Sure honey. More »
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