Sonic Youth have just announced the release of their live album ‘Live in Brooklyn 2011’. Capturing their final North American show from August 2011 at the Williamsburg Waterfront in Brooklyn, the album was released during COVID lockdown on Bandcamp and is now getting a proper release as a remixed and remastered live album.
The 17-song set was played in front of the Manhattan skyline, with openers Kurt Vile and Wild Flag. Lee Ranaldo, the band’s guitarist, said of the concert: “It was a pretty magical, if kinda weird day. Fitting, somehow, that our ‘last show’ should be in New York City, our home and where it all began.”
Drummer Steve Shelly shared that the setlist was full of songs they hadn’t played in a while, and they had to practice the week before the show to get the songs together. He added: “In the end I think the whole song list made it through. Even as early as ’86 and ’87 we stopped playing ‘Death Valley 69’ and ‘Brave Men Run’ with any regularity.”
‘Live in Brooklyn 2011’ is set for release on August 18 via Silver Current, and will be available on vinyl, CD, and cassette tape for the first time. The remixed and remastered LP will also be released digitally via Goofin’.
The release of ‘Live in Brooklyn 2011’ follows the announcement of Thurston Moore’s upcoming memoir ‘Sonic Life’, set for release on October 24 via Doubleday books. Earlier this year, Sonic Youth’s former bassist and frontwoman Kim Gordon released a new EP with her side project Body/Head titled ‘Come On’.
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