Sonic Youth's guitarist Lee Ranaldo has suggested that the band will no longer play live or record new music.
Ranaldo's comments follow news that Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon have ended their marriage after 27 years.
Speaking to Rolling Stone, Ranaldo said: "I'm feeling optimistic about the future no matter what happens at this point. I mean, every band runs its course. We've been together way longer than any of us ever imagined would happen and it's been for the most part an incredibly pleasurable ride."
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There's still a lot of stuff we're going to continue to do. There's tons and tons of archival projects and things like that that are still going on, so there are so many ways in which we are tied to each other for the future both musically and in other ways."
Ranaldo added: "I'm just happy right now to let the future take its course and I guess I'm kind of thankful that I've got this other [solo] project that kind of came about on its own. It wasn't kind of like, well, 'Oh the band is ending for a while and I've got to figure out what to do'".
"It kind of naturally happened in the course of things so that was a nice way for that to come about. I played my first show the day after Kim and Thurston announced [their split]. That was completely weird."
Thanks for the report to Gigwise.com.
It would be a terrible ending to the legacy of a brilliant band.