Sonic Youth Releasing More Material On Geffen

Relating to previous briefs, New York's Sonic Youth has added three albums to the two remaining on its contract with DGC/Geffen.

According to the band's Thurston Moore, the next DGC title, due in late March, will be a song-oriented affair, a departure from the two primarily instrumental budget-priced EPs the band has released on its SYR imprint.

Sonic Youth will spotlight its instrumental material at a Nov. 21 concert at Avery Fisher Hall in New York's Lincoln Center (a historic gig, since only a handful of rock acts have played the classical venue). In January, SYR, which is distributed by San Francisco's Revolver, will release the band's SYR3.

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Song Stories

“Help Me”

Joni Mitchell | 1974

Joni Mitchell wrote and recorded this song for her album Court and Spark, but she had to switch from her regular band to make the song sound exactly the way she wanted. "I had attempted to play my music with rock & roll players," she told Rolling Stone. "They’d laugh, 'Awww, isn't that cute? She's trying to teach us how to play.'" Mitchell switched to a jazz band, Tom Scott’s L.A. Express, and scored the biggest hit of her career in the process.

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