Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo played Glasslands on Friday night with his new quartet, which debuted at The Bell House back in the fall when they opened for Wild Flag. This was the first headlining NYC show for the lineup, which features Sonic Youth's Steve Shelley on drums, Alan Licht on guitar and Irwin Menken on bass.

Ranaldo's forthcoming album, Between The Times & The Tides, which comes out on March 20 on Matador, also features contributions from John Medeski, Nels Cline and former Sonic Youth members Jim O’Rourke and Bob Bert.

Check out some videos from the Glasslands show below. Ranaldo will be performing an original score to Buster Keaton's Cops at Merkin Concert Hall on January 12 as part of the New York Guitar Festival.

Here's an excerpt from Jesse Jarnow's Village Voice review of Friday's show:

There wasn't a whole lot of noise from Lee Ranaldo's new quartet under the cloth clouds at Glasslands on Saturday, but there was plenty of crunch. Removing the art abrasions from Sonic Youth's formula, Ranaldo and company—including SY drummer Steve Shelley and guitarist Alan Licht—brought their alt-skills to bear on the kind of project Geffen Records might've have killed for in 1993. Ranaldo's first proper batch of solo songs wasted few moves in delivering the straightest music yet contrived by a member of Sonic Youth, although it did employ dozens of the little tricks he's picked up over the past 30 years—chiming guitar gongery, Television-style leads, detuned open chords.

[videos via pantophobia66 and DeathMirror365]