Lee Ranaldo and the Dust + Brokeback

Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon get the attention, but it's amazing how much "the Sonic Youth sound"� materializes when just Lee Ranaldo's shimmering strums lie over Steve Shelley's pounding tom-toms. The 56-year-old has delivered the best extracurricular work yet from the Sonic Youth crew, and the poppiest take on the band's inimitable formula, with Last Night on Earth.