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Thurston Moore has written the soundtrack for a porno!

Calm down. It's more of an artsy adult film than an honest-to-goodness porno. And if you're up on your Sonic Youth history, it's really not that completely out of the blue.

A press release describes the hour-long movie, Extra Action (And Extra Hardcore), as the result of what happens when photographer/filmmaker Richard Kern tells his "unpretentious, unadorned, and definitely undressed" "real women" to "roll around and do something interesting for a few minutes." The DVD comes out March 18 via MVD, and in addition to Thurston's original score for Extra Action, it features previously unreleased Kern flicks as extras.

Kern's name will be familiar to Sonic Youth fans for his videos for "Death Valley 69" and "Scooter and Jinx" , as well as the cover of Evol, which featured a still from his film Submit to Me Now. He has also directed videos for the Breeders and Marilyn Manson.

Expanding Moore's multimedia attack, Abrams Image Books will publish No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York. 1976-1980 by Thurston and Byron Coley on June 1. It's a photographic and oral history of the very scene Pitchfork's Marc Masters documented in his recent feature "NO!: The Origins of No Wave" and his book No Wave.

Finally, Sonic Youth have those Down Under dates in February, and Thurston himself has a pair of solo dates bookending the tour. The first is a DJ set on January 26, and the second is a March appearance in NYC opening for Roky Erickson.

Sonic Youth:

01-26 Hadley, MA - American Legion Hall (Books Out Loud Dance Party) (Thurston Moore DJ set)
02-16 Auckland, New Zealand - Bruce Mason Centre *
02-18 Sydney, Australia - Enmore Theatre *!
02-19 Sydney, Australia - Enmore Theatre *
02-20 Melbourne, Australia - The Metro *!
02-21 Melbourne, Australia - The Metro *
02-22 Adelaide, Australia - Fowlers Live Courtyard *!
02-23 Perth, Australia - Beck's Music Box (Perth International Arts Festival) *
03-01 New York, NY - Webster Hall (Thurston Moore and the New Wave Bandits show) #

* performing Daydream Nation
! with Scientists performing Blood Red River
# with Roky Erickson