Sonic Youth are to release a compilation album chosen by celebrities on Starbucks' record label.
During an interview with Pitchfork, guitarist Thurston Moore dropped the news of the album, to be released through the transnational coffee conglomerate. When asked about any new recordings, Moore admitted that the band are recording a new song to be added to the compilation.The concept is that artists, actors, designers and musicians - including Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, Beck, Marc Jacobs, Portia de Rossi and Michelle Williams - will choose their favourite Sonic Youth track and write "a little thing" about what it means to them. Moore chuckled when it was suggested that the album will be sold alongside lattes and CDs of Elton John's favourite Christmas songs, "Yeah, something like that."
The album will presumably be released on Starbucks' newly minted Hear Music label, which recently had a coup with Paul McCartney's new album 'Memory Almost Full' debuting at number 3 on the Billboard Top 200.
Notoriously DIY, it's a surprise for Sonic Youth to aligning themselves with the equally-notoriously capitalist Starbucks, who now have over 7,500 outlets in over 40 countries.
