One of New York’s greatest bands, Sonic Youth, will perform an acoustic version of their 1986 single “Starpower” on the fifth episode of Gossip Girl this fall.
“Sonic Youth is one of my favorite bands,” Gossip Girl executive producer Stephanie Savage said, “and last year when I was doing my regular Gossip Girl Google search, it came up in some blog about a Sonic Youth show that Thurston [Moore] was playing 'Psychic Hearts' and Gossip Girl was playing on a screen in the background."
"And I was like, ‘Whaaaat? Oh my God. I hope they’re not making fun of us! I hope it was a cool, edgy homage!’ And it turned out that it was - tongue in cheek for sure, but definitely with love, and that they were fans of the show.”
Last year, Moore (who has a 15-year-old daughter with his wife, Kim Gordon) and Be Your Own Pet’s Jemima Pearl cut a cover of the Ramones’ “Sheena is a Punk Rocker” for Jenny Humphrey’s guerrilla fashion show, and the talks continued from there.
“We have a very special event coming in episode five that we’re filming right now,” the Gossip Girl show-runner says, “they seemed the ideal musical guest for it.”
But, in traditional Gossip Girl fashion, Stephanie Savage is keeping quiet about the exact circumstances of the festivities involved. “It’s a big event that involves [engaged adults] Rufus and Lily. Just draw your own conclusions,” she laughs.
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August 14th, 2009 10:52 AM
Cool... is it that party with Tyra? hmmm
August 14th, 2009 11:58 AM
The Lily and Rufus Wedding, I hope not, or the big premire of Olivia and, Whoever Tyra is playing, movie
August 14th, 2009 12:14 PM
That's so cool! My old music teachers cousin is in sonic youth =P!
August 14th, 2009 12:40 PM
a wedding? but this band is punk rock? but maybe a guest in Rufus and lily's wedding.... I hate Rufus and Lily for ruining Dan and Serena
August 14th, 2009 12:52 PM
OMG!!!!!This is so cool! I love them! Sonic Youth is awesome.
August 14th, 2009 1:25 PM
Hahaha, of course.
Rufus was probably "friends" with them back in his glory musician days haha.
Sonic Youth is amazing.
This is one of the coolest things ever to happen on Gossip Girl.
Maybe they'll become like The O.C. and have live bands play all the time :)
August 14th, 2009 3:18 PM
welcome home party for scott
August 14th, 2009 3:57 PM
Read the post above this. It says that in the 5th episode, Lily and Rufus meet Scot. So it's obvious. The big event is when they meet Scot!! And there's probably a party and Sonic Youth plays at it. :)
August 14th, 2009 6:44 PM
^^^ that could be true, cause Lily and Rufus are dressed up when the are hugging Scott.
August 14th, 2009 7:22 PM
love sonic youth and love star power, it´s a great song!!
This are the things that make me love gossip girl so much!
lily & rufus, dancing and remembering when they were youngs (L!