Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo has released a music video for "Off the Wall," the first song off his upcoming solo album, Between the Tides and the Times. It's split between live footage of Ranaldo jamming out at Glasslands, along with video he shot himself. "Other footage by me: Battery Park trees, Holland tunnel, Frey in Walt Whitman's forest, girl fr Calgary, MP3 experiment in Hudson River Park, David Linton installation at the Clocktower," he writes in the video's official description. As you can imagine, it's a kaleidoscope adventure through Ranaldo's impression of New York City, surely to tug the heartstrings of anyone who's already begun to miss his old band. 

When Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon announced they were splitting up after infinite years of being together (or so it seemed), a million indie rockers cried out in unison. But what about the other members of Sonic Youth? Guitarist Lee Ranaldo and drummer Steve Shelley have invested just as much in the band, and with an indefinite hiatus likely in the cards, they would have to rebound quickly and get new projects going, lest they squander all of that carefully built-up alternative credibility. Shelley currently plays in Chicago rock band Disappears, but Ranaldo is striking out more distinctly: he's releasing a solo album on March 20, entitled Between the Time and the Tides, from which you can hear the first single, "Off The Wall." Via Matablog, click here to give it a listen.

Lee Ronaldo, the guitarist for long-running and highly influential indie-noise outfit Sonic Youth, has oh-so-very-casually mentioned that the band's recent shows in South America were "certainly the last for a while." Dudes in plaid shirts and tattooed baristas are going to have a rough week. 

Iconic '80's punk rockers Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon have announced that they’re dunzo after 27 years of marriage. And while this is a blow to those who believe in ever-enduring love, it has music fans abuzz that this may mean a split for Sonic Youth. Relax! Plenty of bands have stayed together after members breakup.

Not everyone in Los Angeles had Golden Globes fever this past weekend. Hundreds of film industry types were schmoozing and seeing movies at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. Big names turned up again this year - everyone from Michael Douglas to Natalie Portman - and attention was given to films that might otherwise have trouble finding traction in this awards-saturated season, like Peter Weir’s The Way Back. Another of those films is Daydream Nation, an angst-y tale about a brainy and manipulative girl (Kat Dennings) who shakes up a small town when she begins a love affair with her teacher (Josh Lucas). The film won over many of the festival's younger fans, who were, lets be honest, in short supply at the open-to-the-public festival in one of America’s retirement hotbeds.

Sean Lennon is steadily expanding his musical horizons. He's one half of indie/folk duo The Ghost of a Saber Toothed Tiger (GOASTT)—the other half is his smoking hot model/singer/girlfriend Charlotte Kemp Muhl—and he recently wrote the film score for anther supernatural-sounding project, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead, a vampire comedy starring Jake Hoffman, Devon Aoki, Jeremy Sisto, and Ralph Macchio, out in New York theaters today. We chatted with the decidedly down to earth musical mastermind on his day off about the origins of his band's name, his solo projects, and the truth about working with his famous mom.

Scott Sternberg brought a taste of his SoCal stomping grounds to Milk Studios Saturday for his SS10 Fashion Week presentation for Band of Outsiders and Boy. Models were outfitted in Sternberg's classic Americana-meets-prep-meets-California cool. Blazers for women were shrunken, while cuffed khaki shorts and cropped trousers were cut on the loose side. For men, suit jackets, relaxed button-up shirts, slim-legged pants, and bomber jackets were fashioned decidedly more trim. Thanks to a jam-packed crowd, the beach scene was matched by notably warm interior temperatures. But that didn't dissuade the likes of Jason Schwartzman, Kirsten Dunst, Leigh Lezark, and Rachel McAdams (the latter of which has been attending shows with Anna Wintour, generating rooms of a Vogue cover in the works) in a Boy bandage skirt fresh off the SS10 line among other A-listers from paying their respects to Sternberg.

Sonic Youth is still ever so relevant within the world of music. Thank God! With only flickers of promising hope from young musicians, one is always prone to retreat to familiar and sublime melodies. That being said, I was so happy to say yes to an invite to hear the band’s new album, The Eternal, out June 9 on Matador Records. Coincidentally, my best friend -- the lovely and always chic Miss Kristin Vincent -- hosted the listening party at her Lower East Side bar, Home Sweet Home -- submerged within the confines of the building’s basement, speakeasy style.

The fashion mavens pick the brain of one of their idols.

Rock goddess Kim Gordon is no slouch when it comes to style. She can perpetually be spotted sitting front row at shows like Marc Jacobs season after season, not to mention she always looks stunning. So, it’s little surprise that the Sonic Youth frontwoman has focused her inimitable fashion sensibilities in the form of Mirror/Dash, a label that borrows its name from a band Gordon once had with husband, and bandmate, Thurston Moore. So far, the line only includes one limited edition look: The Hardy Jacket (as in French chanteuse François Hardy).