Song of the Day: Ciccone Youth

Ciccone Youth is the side project of Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Steve Shelley and Lee Ranaldo (all of Sonic Youth), with Mike Watt (of Minutemen). The band has never played live, and has only released one full-length album, The Whitney Album, in 1988.

The Whitney Album is one of the most varied albums I've ever heard in terms of style and sound. Mixing 1980s pop, new wave, noise, and samples from Madonna songs--Ciccone Youth is a group of extremely talented musicians playing around on their off hours. I played the track "Macbeth" on my radio show a few weeks ago, a funky, grinding, screeching experimentation with a hybrid of lounge-era electronica and free form noise.

If you don't want to hear a cover of Madonna's "Into The Groove" that sounds like straight up Bauhaus, there's something wrong with you. 

Check it out. I guarantee no matter what you listen to, there's one track you'll fall in love with (if not all of them).