Lee Ranaldo Archives

Hockets for Two Voices Is an Audio Illusion

By Lee Ranaldo | April 6, 2020

Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth) fell under the spell of Meara O’Reilly’s latest album.

By Talkhouse Podcast | October 24, 2019

The experimental guitar legends talk avant-garde recording sessions, NYC music scenes through the years, and Wilco's instrument collection.

By Lee Ranaldo | October 26, 2018

“I don’t need to pull the album apart and put it back together again to know how it makes me feel.”

By Lee Ranaldo | January 18, 2018

Each song on Reaching for Indigo is its own little self-contained movie.

These experimental legends sat down for an episode of the Talkhouse Music Podcast.

April 8, 2016

The Talkhouse is taking up residence at Samsung 837. Join us for our next conversation.

January 11, 2016

Stephin Merritt (Magnetic Fields), Kim Gordon, Merrill Garbus (Tune-Yards), Will Sheff (Okkervil River) and more pay tribute to an icon.

By Various Artists | September 6, 2014

I was a bit in awe of Lou because of Magic and Loss. I thought that record was the most beautiful musical meditation on death I'd heard.

By Lee Ranaldo | September 21, 2013

To start with the pertinent facts: the new concert documentary Sunshine Daydream (just out on DVD) is the early-'70s Grateful Dead as I love...