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Rare Sonic Youth Live Recording, With Steve Albini Cameo, Coming Next Year

The classic semi-bootleg, 'Hold That Tiger,' from the Eighties receives a belated reissue.

A group portrait of American rock band Sonic Youth, (L-R) Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Steve Shelley and Kim Gordon, posing backstage at Paradiso on May 11 1986 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. If Kim Gordon’s first-ever Grammy nominations for her current album, The Collective, intrigued anyone enough to investigate her former band, Sonic Youth, they will be given the perfect opportunity to do so when a rare live recording is officially released next year. Hold That Tiger leans heavily on songs from Sister, including “Schizophrenia,” “White Cross,” “Tom Violence,” “Kotton Crown,” and “Catholic Block.” But the set also dips into earlier rattlers like “Brother James,” “Death Valley 69,” and the epic “Expressway to Yr Skull.” To wrap up the show and give a nod to their predecessors on the CBGB’s scene, the band also tore through four back-to-back Ramones covers: “Loudmouth,” “I Don’t Wanna Walk Around with You,” “Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World” and “Beat on the Brat.”

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