A messege from Thurston
 

from the myspace. com page:

Friendz, family, petz and alienz --- we, Sonic Youth, are hitting the heavy
highwayz of America starting promptly June 13th.

So believe this: RATHER RIPPED is OUT!!!! that day as well. We are
celebrating at an already jammed out CBGB. We will then
commence to crank the raunch non-stop. Itinerary is on this page, check it.
The record is easily found on CD. If you look deep enuff (try our
webstore at sonicyouth.com) you can find RR on vinyl LP with completely
different cover art. We've also released a 7" of tunes we
didn't put on record which are RRAAWW. 1st week of dates are with nashville
teenster dynamite Be Your OWN Pet and the rest of tour is mostly with
Brooklyn goodtime groovsters Awesome Color. West Coast we're jamming on the
Pearl Jam stage, doing some shows with Flaming Lipz and ending it all in a
Brooklyn pool with Yeah Yeah Yeahs. We'll be doing some righteous TV
destruction along the way, LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN(this friday june 16th), and extra face shred with Conan on NBC and Kimmel on ABC.
Bust out the Tivo, momma!

Later,

thurston/sonic youth

ps. Thanks for visiting us at our myspace site - for up-to-date sy news and tour information visit us at sonicyouth.com

SY Summer Tour 2006
June 13 New York, NY CBGB SOLD OUT
June 14 Starlight Ballroom, Philadelphia, PA SOLD OUT
June 15 Washington, DC 9:30 Club EARLY SHOW SOLD OUT
June 15 Washington, DC 9:30 Club LATE SHOW ADDED
June 16 Live on XM Radio 'Ethel' 6PM Eastern
June 16 Late Night with David Letterman CBS Television
June 17 Asheville, NC Orange Peel
June 18 Bonnaroo Festival, Manchester, TN
June 19 Atlanta, GA Earthlink Live
June 21 Tulsa, OK Caine's Ballroom
June 22 Houston, TX Warehouse Live
June 23 Austin, TX Stubbs BBQ
June 24 Dallas, TX Gypsy Tearoom
June 26 Lawrence, KS Liberty Hall
June 27 Denver, CO Gothic Theatre
June 29 Missoula, MT UM Theatre
June 30 Seattle, WA Moore Theatre
July 1 Portland, OR Roseland Ballroom
July 3 Sacramento, CA Empire
July 4 Reno, NV The Theatre at Reno Hilton
July 6 MGM Grand, Las Vegas, NV with Pearl Jam
July 7 Cox Arena, San Diego, CA with Pearl Jam
July 8 Special L.A. secret show
July 9 Forum, Los Angeles, CA with Pearl Jam
July 10 Forum, Los Angeles, CA with Pearl Jam
July 11 Jimmy Kimmel Show, ABC Television
July 13 Santa Barbara Bowl, Santa Barbara, CA with Pearl Jam
July 15 Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, S.F. CA with Pearl Jam
July 16 Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, S.F. CA with Pearl Jam
July 18 Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, S.F. CA with Pearl Jam

July 22 Splendour in the Grass Festival, Byron Bay, Australia
July 24 Palace Melbourne, Australia
July 26 Enmore, Sydney, Australia
July 29 Fujirock Festival, Japan

August 3 Kuyahoga Festival, Cleveland, OH
August 4 State Theater Detroit, MI with Flaming Lips
August 5 Lollapalooza Festival, Chicago, IL
August 6 Pabst Theatre, Milwaukee, WI
August 9 Conan O'Brien Show NBC Television
August 11 Brooklyn, NY McCarren Park Pool with Yeah Yeah Yeah's
August 12 Brooklyn, NY McCarren Park Pool with Yeah Yeah Yeah's
August 24 St. Paul, MN Minnesota State Fair with Flaming Lips
August 25 Council Bluffs, IA Stir Cove at Harrah's with Flaming Lips
August 26 St. Louis, MO The Pageant with Flaming Lips
August 28 Columbus, OH Promowest Pavilion with Flaming Lips
August 31 Allentown, PA Allentown Fair with Flaming Lips
September 1 Syracuse, NY New York State Fair with Flaming Lips
September 3 Boston, MA Bank of America Pavilion with Flaming Lips

schweet. thanks for posting

Nice.

I thought the Letterman thing was tomorrow, though...Guess not.

Where can I buy tickets??

Don't worry, it's on a Thursday, I can't go.

It's actually on a Wednesday.

You can buy tickets on ticketek. Don't know if it's sold out or not.

still no uk dates. im very dissapointed.

thanks for posting this.

ATP is one isn't it?

im not going to the all tomorrows parties nightmare before christmas festival just to see sonic youth. they have youred everyother album since washing machine in the uk. why not rather ripped.

i really want to see them again, plus this time will be even better because i can constantly say to people "are you ready to get rather ripped?" before the show.

are you going to definately go to ATPNBC?

I certainly am my dear. Still need to get me friends to scrape up some money for it though.

Would you not want to see other bands at ATP?

anyone know how to get on letterman? do they allow kids? i've got guests in town with a 4 and a 6 year old.

But I bought my copy on the 1st....?

i want to go definately, i want to support Thurston as much as i can, but i have no one to go with. and im not sure about the other bands playing, i havent heard of many of them.:(

i need people to go with

I need to buy to copies of RR tomorrow at the Mad Platter...I can't go, so I need my mom to go for me.

The tivo part is funny...

zzzzzzzzz

You can discover new bands, that's probably part of the reason for this gig. I haven't heard most of them. Theirs probably 4 bands I've heard of and 3 i've actually heard.

As for the fact you've no one to go with I shall say no more...

If you can get a chance to go to ATP then GO GO GO. I went when Shellac were curating a few years ago and it was amazing. And yes, you are guaranteed to see bands you've never heard of & will love.

Apparently I'm not old enough to go to ATNBC. Fuck.

I got the mail too this morning i don't cra i don't lice in america.
I just received my tickets though for 11 november!!!
I'm stoked!!