News Listen: Sonic Youth Preview ‘Smart Bar - Chicago 1985’
The band share some audio from the forthcoming live release.
Sonic Youth are due to issue 'Smart Bar - Chicago 1985' next month, a live recording of the band's gig at (shockingly) the Smart Bar in Chicago on 11th August 1985.
Now, they're previewing the release by posting the audio of one of the tracks on YouTube.
'Intro/Brave Men Run (in my family)' can be listened to below.
The tracklisting for the album, which was recorded on 4-track cassette, and will be available on digital, CD and double LP formats, is:
Hallowe’en
Death Valley ’69
Intro/Brave Men Run(In My Family)
I Love Her All The Time
Ghost Bitch
I’m Insane
Kat ‘N’ Hat
Brother James
Kill Yr Idols
Secret Girl
Flower
The Burning Spear
Expressway To Yr Skull
Making The Nature Scene
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