Tuesday Bears: Tape Deck Mountain

Another Lefse Records name that has been coming out of the woods is Tape Deck Mountain. The San Diego trio's new album, Ghost, set to be released November 17, features the slow, murky almost psychedelic lo-fi is akin (according to Brandon at Stereogum) the likes of 90's lo-fi legends My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth, and Sebadoh. So it sounds roughly like all of them and nothing like them at the same time.

Tape Deck Mountain - Ghost Colony - MP3

Tape Deck Mountain - Bat Lies - MP3

Sonic Youth on Fallon

Criticism's of Sonic Youth's most recent LP The Eternal have penned the group's 16th album as something that would fit much better had 2009 been 1993. Regardless of maligned observations and accurate witticisms, the album scores the group's storied career as the head-hunters of the NYC indie-rock scene.

The group, well into middle-age, made their second New York talk-show appearance (after performing "Sacred Trickster" on Letterman), with a performance of "No Way," aching back to the band's early work, on Fallon last night.

You can catch the band performing at Philadelphia's Electric Factory July 2, or the next night at NYC's United Palace Theater.

Sonic Youth - No Way (Live on Fallon)

Sonic Youth on Letterman

Sonic Youth made their sixth career appearance on Letterman last night supporting the band's recently released (and first since leaving for Matador Records) album The Eternal with the a performance of the LP's lead single "Sacred Trickster."

Short, sweet, and to the point.

Sonic Youth - Sacred Trickster (Live on Letterman)

Sonic Youth on Later... With Jools Holland

Last a week a brand new, older styling Sonic Youth appeared on Later... With Jools Holland to promote the band's much hyped upcoming album The Eternal, the first album after the band's departure from long-time label Geffen (now part of Interscope) and three year's since 2006's Rather Ripped was released.

The Eternal has shortly become this year's most anticipated record after first listening of the band's first single "Sacred Trickster." So if you aren't already on it, mark your calender's for The Eternal's official release, June 9.

Sonic Youth - What We Know (Live on Later... With Jools Holland)

New Sonic Youth

Courtesy of the Matador Music Blog, some of us can get our first taste of Sonic Youth's (post-Geffen era) much anticipated album, The Eternal, due out June 9. The single, "Sacred Trickster," clocks in at 2:10, with Kim gnarling in front of Thurston Moore's guitar-swirls, ala a mature Sister.

Although in the same frame of mind, one listen of "Sacred Trickster" gives the listener a keen idea that The Eternal will be a large leap away from the 2006's Rather Ripped. The return to 'sonic roots' may let the upcoming stand alone as the most anticipated of the year.

Sonic Youth - Sacred Trickster - MP3