Lee Ranaldo

From his early days with Glenn Branca’s electric drone orchestra through to a thirty-year tour of duty with Sonic Youth that came to define alternative music, Lee Ranaldo is a guitarist without measure. Indeed, his critical esteem is only now reaching its peak – Spin Magazine recently na…

From his early days with Glenn Branca’s electric drone orchestra through to a thirty-year tour of duty with Sonic Youth that came to define alternative music, Lee Ranaldo is a guitarist without measure. Indeed, his critical esteem is only now reaching its peak – Spin Magazine recently named Ranaldo and former Sonic Youth bandmate Thurston Moore jointly as the greatest guitarists of all time.

More song-oriented than any of Ranaldo’s previous outings, Between the Times and the Tides sees him joining up with Sonic Youth alumni Steve Shelley, Jim O’Rourke and Bob Bert, Wilco axe-man Nels Cline, organist John Medeski, and long-time Text of Light collaborator Alan Licht to dish out a powerful sequence of rock gems – a rollicking constellation of shimmering, 60s-tinged melody and soaring poetry.

Performing solo with his new group in Australia for the first time, Ranaldo brings to bear his three decades of experience to craft a live show that is powerful and ever-changing, oscillating between bracing indie rock, quiet introspection and, of course, the spontaneous guitar-fuzz overloads he’s famous for.

Ranaldo will be supported by up-and-coming Sydney shoegazers, The Laurels. Channeling Velvet Underground-style noise experiments and transcendent guitar freak-outs, their sound is psychedelic, surging and overwhelming, an astral journey contained in a wall of blissful guitar noise.