Sonic Youth To Release Album Via Starbucks

Thurston Moore has revealed that Sonic Youth will be the latest big name act to release an album via Starbucks.

The band will following the footsteps of Bob Dylan and Sir Paul McCartney who have also worked with the Coffee House chain.

Moore says the album will be a collections of the bands best known tracks performed by other artists and actors.

He told Pitchfork: “We sort of devised this idea of a Sonic Youth record where we asked all these different people to choose their favourite song, people like artists and actors and other musicians and what have you.

“So all these people, from Jeff Tweedy to Beck to Marc Jacobs to Portia de Rossi to Michelle Williams, they all chose their favourite songs and wrote a little thing about it.

“So it's a compilation record of artists choosing songs of Sonic Youth. There's going to be one exclusive song of ours that we'll record, so that's something we have to record.”

Sonic Youth re-release their classic 1988 album ‘Daydream Nation’ on July 2 in the UK.