Just found out that Sonic Youth will be playing a free show on July 4th at Battery Park. The Feelies will also be performing.


Show starts at 3:30pm and tickets are required. Last year, tickets were able to be obtained on the River to River Festival page, but looks like 2008 events are not posted yet.

This couldn't come at a more perfect time. I mean, cause it's free, yeah, BUT, interesting tie-in here.

I don't get many perks at my normal day job and raises are few if ever. However, one of the treats of working with/on the same floor as Billboard, us lowly minions are often treated to their cast-aside advanced reading copies of books that publishing houses send to editors in the hopes of being featured in print.

Last week, I picked up an extremely advanced copy of Goodbye 20th Century: A Biography of Sonic Youth, by David Browne. Being a fan of theirs, it's been a delight learning even more about the NYC experimental group...long before this hardcover will ever see an actual bookstore shelf.