TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT: Lee Ranaldo Band

It was a sad day when the coolest of couples Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon announced their divorce after 27 years of marriage. A partnership I believed unbreakable left me questioning the validity of such tragic information.

Luckily though, Sonic Youth aren't bearing only bad news this year as the band's guitarist LEE RANALDO has just announced two very intimate Australian shows! The writer/record producer and visual artist has been keeping himself busy over the years, performing with Glenn Branca throughout the United States and Europe with his electric guitar ensemble.

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Not to mention his more recent live Contre Jour performances with his partner Leah Singer. On top of all this, he has artworks presented in exhibitions and also displays them at solo shows. What a dude! Both Ranaldo and co-founding member of Sonic Youth Thurston Moore have been equally placed at #1 for SPIN magazine's 'Greatest Guitarists of All Time'.

As a result of the two musicians being added to the Melbourne Festival bill, talented guitarist Ranaldo has announced that he will be playing in Sydney and Brisbane before he heads down to the Hi-Fi in late October. As if the man needs any reason to delight his Australian fans, Ranaldo is coming out to celebrate the release of his solo debut Between the Times and the Tides.

Relating closer to Sonic Youth's Eternal rather than the band's renown grimey, garage sound (particularly exemplified in Dirty and Goo) this doesn't take away from the sublimity of the stellar solo release.

Performing under the title Lee Ranaldo Band with fellow Sonic Youth member Steve Shelley and friends Alan Licht, Nels Clive, John Medeski and Irwin Menken, this is a show you definitely will not want to miss.