Lee Ranaldo Movies

The band performs at the Free Jazz Festival

Footage from 2005’s Festival Art Rock in Saint-Brieuc, France, featuring Metric, Sonic Youth, Jeanne Balibar, and other acts.

A taxidermist has been living alone on an island for more than forty years, after the loss of his love. A visit from the doctor confirms his biggest...

Rare proshot from 1986

Christian demonstrates some techniques and preparations and meditates on the turntable, improvisation, and the difference between the sonic and the...

Enjoy Sonic Youth's full From The Basement

A portrait of Maine artist Mitchell Rasor’s wintertime salt marsh drawings. Filmed in the Spears Farm Estuary Preserve on the Royal River in...

PBS produced documentary in two parts: the first is dedicated to saxophonist and composer John Zorn; the second is about Sonic Youth at the height of...

New York-based 16-year-old Joey Wethersby's parents were part of a 1990s one-hit wonder band. After encouraging her parents to start a new band, Joey...

June 16, 1996 Golden Gate Park San Francisco

Filmed April 12, 2003 at a benefit concert held at and for The Anthology Film Archives, the international center for the preservation, study, and...

Live at Rocknacht, Germany 1996. Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from NewYork City, formed in 1981. In their early career, Sonic...

The second last show on Sonic Youth's sad final stanza, a festival tour of South America that eventually took them to Chile for the Maquinaria...

Documentary surrounding the festival.

The final Sonic Youth concert

A documentary about the recent resurgence in sales of vinyl records and its impact on the industry.

Concert given by Sonic Youth on Friday, August 7, 1998, as part of the Benicàssim International Festival. Broadcast on Sputnik Concert...

Sonic Youth's first concert in Portugal. Recorded Live at Campo Pequeno Lisbon, Portugal July 14, 1993

Don't Bring A Dog shows a part of the New York underground music scene - rooted in the early eighties - existing apart from MTV and billboard charts....

For over 30 years, Martin Bisi has been recording music from his studio in Gowanus, Brooklyn. He has worked with many influential musicians,...