The Feelies News

In a high-tech world where virtual experiences are becoming ever more popular, you still can't beat the real thing: Sorry, but playing "Rock Band" is vastly inferior to playing in a rock band, or to having a band rock your world onstage.

Reissues are a difficult breed, on one hand they seek to garner a new audience, on another they have to pay heed to what fans are looking for.

Sorry for the title. "CDs" sounded old-fashioned, "albums" even worse. Well, that's what happens when digital takes over.

Sixteen albums and twenty-seven years after the release of their first, self-titled studio album in 1982, Sonic Youth has made a career of wowing crowds all over the world in the promotion of their newest work.

Just a few years ago, record-store fans were sobbing into their Amoeba t-shirts and re-watching Empire Records on DVD, lamenting the death of music retail .

Only Life , the Feelies' third album from 1988, finds Bill Million wandering away from the songwriting, and Glenn Mercer, possibly to fill that gap, pondering more on concrete matters.

The back cover of the 1986 album "The Good Earth," by The Feelies. The band played last weekend at Maxwell's in Hoboken.

MARK VON HOLDEN/GETTY IMAGES/file Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth in New York City earlier this year.

Photo of Theater District tagged "Bostonist" by Antydiluvian . Boston's worst live music venue, the Wilbur Theatre, on the left.

Even before there were festivals like All Tomorrow's Parties to formalize the concept, Sonic Youth have always given off a curatorial air.

There aren't that many CAN'T MISS events we stress here at JSink, because there really are so many viable options out there.

Back cover of the 1986 album "The Good Earth," by The Feelies, who will be playing in Hoboken tonight at Maxwell's. Maxwell's in Hoboken is bringing some great head-banging rock to the stage this weekend and next week.

Echoes of some live shows I saw this week -- Bob Dylan with Dion as well as Metric.

Jed Gottlieb writes about music, film and pop culture for local, regional and national publications.

Ah, such a nice homecoming for these Jersey boys and girl. While they were a sensation at Battery Park last year opening for Sonic Youth , this is their real stomping ground and home turf , where they've been known to perform multi-sets and encores.

Straight outta Haledon, NJ, The Feelies were the complete antithesis of cool back when they officially formed during the year punk broke .

Modeselektor Mutually influenced by hip-hop, acid house and the early rave sounds that reached their ears following the fall of the Berlin Wall, Szary and Bronsert founded Modeselektor in 1996.

It's been years now, more than a decade: When I walk into a store selling CDs, sooner or later I wander over to a certain section, not expecting to find the CD I'm looking for but still checking on it.

Purple Hill Together, Jordan Bruce, Brent Hough and Owen Marchildon make up Purple Hill, a jangle-friendly three-piece that might be Toronto's answer to The Feelies.

New music releases out October 6 October 6, 2009 at 4:00 pm by Vinyl Fever VINYL: Lou Barlow - Goodnight Unknown Lou describes this as, "a cross between my later work with Folk Implosion and my earlier work with Sebadoh." The Clientele - Bonfires on the Health The Clientele are cited as an influence by bands such as Spoon and the Fleet Foxes.