I'm telling you: Matador's Buy Early Get Now plan is the gift that keeps on giving. First of all, I've been streaming The Eternal every day for the last couple of weeks. It's great. Then, with the pre-sale ticket offer, I scooped up four seats (Orchestra, Row C) for Sonic Youth's July 3 performance at the United Palace Theater in Manhattan. Now, I'm freaking out to this shredding, blazing train wreck of "Silver Rocket" from last year's Fourth of July River to River Festival held at Battery Park. I wasn't there.
I've listened to it three times in a row. It's the first download from the upcoming exclusive bonus LP. And I can't wait to receive the real thing along with my copy of The Eternal. What a deal!
What a deal!
I wish I could tell you what Thurston Moore had to say about relearning the twenty-year-old songs from their seminal Daydream Nation, but you'll have to read it in our July issue.