This Must Be the Gig is powered by our good friends at StubHub. Throughout his decades as a member of Sonic Youth, Lee has continuously experimented and expended his artistic palette, working as a ...

Lee Ranaldo is pretty good at guitar. The 30-year vet of Sonic Youth (and other projects) is now finally going to put those skills to real work, teaching YOU how to play. On October 28, Ranaldo will ...

Across 40 years and through his work with Sonic Youth, Glenn Branca, William Hooker and others, Lee Ranaldo has shown that he's capable of making anything happen on guitar. On Names of North End Women ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Mariano Regidor/Redferns/Getty Images Experimental rock juggernauts Sonic Youth are ...

Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo is staying busy as always with projects of all shapes and sizes. Right now he’s getting ready to put on a special performance art piece called “Sight Unseen,” a collaboration ...

Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo and Spanish musician Raül Refree have shared a performance of “Light Years Out,” recorded earlier this year at the gallery/workspace NeueHouse in Manhattan. The clip was ...

Lee Ranaldo, co-founder of Sonic Youth, last night (October 28) hosted a ‘guitar clinic’ at the Other Music store in Manhattan, New York. The event consisted of a half-hour long demonstration of ...

There’s a scene in Hello Hello Hello – a documentary about the making of Lee Ranaldo‘s new LP, Electric Trim – that shows him playing an electric guitar with a violin bow as it hangs from a ceiling, ...

The fact that Electric Trim is both Lee Ranaldo's most collaborative and personal solo rock album since Sonic Youth disbanded is striking in and of itself. A true punk poet and guitar scientist, ...

It has to be disorienting to start something small with two other people, keep at it for 30 years and watch it grow into something huge, and then one day the other two decide to up and go their ...