Sonic Youth

The duo's second album The Switch will follow on July 13

The Spinhead Sessions is coming in June

The tour the UK between May and July

Re-release will feature bonus tracks

Kim Gordon will publish her autobiography, Girl In A Band, in February 2015.

A book of essays by Kim Gordon is set to be published this month.

Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo has said that the band's future remains "up in the air".

As guitarist Lee Ranaldo is in Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes in this month's new issue (April 2012, Take 179), we thought we'd share a Sonic Youth piece from our archive. In this feature, published in 2009, Marc Spitz finds the band (who've just finished what we now know could be their final album, The Eternal) ageing with more dignity than most, but still finding time to lash out at Oasis, Madonna and U2, and order a baby pig with a donut in its mouth… Picture by Pieter M Van Hattem.

Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon is set to play a tiny London club show with her new musical project, Body/Head.

Guitarist admits the band's future is uncertain