SONIC YOUTH: LIVE AT MCCARREN POOL

11 days and counting.  This Saturday, August 30, 2008, Sonic Youth are playing the LAST McCarren Pool Show with Wolf Eyes, Times New Viking and Vivian Girls.  Doors open at 4pm. $35.00 tickets still on sale through ticketmaster.com, the Nokia Theatre box office (44th & B’way), and Earwax Records.
Discosalt spotted some hipster pipedream petitions floating around the slip and slide to keep the venue a concert space, but we are apprehensive. There is already a $50 million plan underway to return the venue to a pool. Wah Wohhh. The good news is, the free shows may be transferred to East River State Park or Bushwick Inlet Parkin 2009. There’s an online petition asking the Parks Department for space that so far has only gotten 233 signatures, so get on it.