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The Sprawl: Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation Turns 35

October 18, 2023October 18, 2023 Kara Tucker 0 Comments 1988, 35th Anniversary, Daydream Nation, James Chance, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Sister, Sonic Youth, Steve Shelley, Teenage Jesus and The Jerks, Thurston Moore

Honoring the album that unlocked the band’s fully realized vision

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Happy 30th Birthday to Nirvana’s In Utero, King of the Toxic Follow-Ups

September 21, 2023 Ted Miller 0 Comments 1993, 30th Anniversary, Courtney Love, Dave Grohl, Heart-Shaped Box, In Utero, Krist Noveselic, Kurt Cobain, Nirvana

The trio’s other studio masterpiece took Steve Albini, feminism and the ugliest riffs they ever made to No. 1

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Sweet Little Agony: Smashing Pumpkins’ Siamese Dream Turns 30

July 25, 2023July 25, 2023 Ted Miller 0 Comments 1993, 30th Anniversary, Billy Corgan, Cherub Rock, D'Arcy, Drake, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, Kanye West, Mayonaise, My Bloody Valentine, Quiet, Siamese Dream, Silverfuck, Smashing Pumpkins, Soma, Today

Looking back on the band’s breakthrough second album

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Your Neck Is My Favorite: Sonic Youth’s A Thousand Leaves Turns 25

May 12, 2023May 13, 2023 Dan Weiss 2 Comments 1998, 25th Anniversary, A Thousand Leaves, Geffen Records, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Sonic Youth, Steve Shelley, Sunday, Thurston Moore, Wharton Tiers

How do you explain your favorite album?

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The Extremities of Extreme Music

May 1, 2023May 1, 2023 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2022, Atari Teenage Riot, Berian Eno, Books, Brutal Truth, Carcass, D.O.A, Extreme Music, Feral House Books, La Monte Young, Lou Reed, Merzbow, Michael Tau, Moby, Napalm Death, Noise Music, William Ackerman

A new book brings light to an intense, intricate genre

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New You: A Decade of My Bloody Valentine’s m b v

February 2, 2023February 2, 2023 Ted Miller 0 Comments 10th anniversary, 2013, Blinda Butcher, Colm O'Cloisig, Kevin Shields, m b v, MBV, My Bloody Valentine

Reflecting upon 10 years of the band’s long-delayed third LP

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WATCH: Martin Bisi Collective Celebrate Gowanus and Urban Autonomy 

October 13, 2022 Brad Cohan 0 Comments Blind Idiot God, Brooklyn, Cop Shoot Cop, Elliott Sharp, Foetus, Gowanus, Iggy Pop, John Zorn, Live Skull, Lydia Lunch, Martin Bisi, Material, Sonic Youth, Swans, The Autonomous People Of The Last Street End Of Gowanus, The Last Street End Of Gowanus, Unsane

The Autonomous People Of The Last Street End Of Gowanus performed and created a flag of secession against gentrification

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The Earth Died Screaming: Bone Machine Turns 30

September 6, 2022September 6, 2022 Jim Allen 0 Comments 1992, 30th Anniversary, Bone Machine, David Hidalgo, Island Records, Keith Richards, Larry Taylor, Les Claypool, Los Lobos, Tom Waits

Looking back on Tom Waits’s most visceral sack of gold

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Soft Spot For The Babes: Fontanelle Turns 30

August 11, 2022August 11, 2022 Nathan Carson 0 Comments 30th Anniversary, Babes In Toyland, Fontanelle, Kat Bjelland, Lori Barbero, Maureen Herman

Celebrating Babes In Toyland’s major label breakthrough

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Get Your Hands Off My Tomato: Sonic Youth’s Murray Street Turns 20

July 27, 2022July 27, 2022 Ted Miller 0 Comments 2002, 20th Anniversary, DGC Records, Jim O'Rourke, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Murray St., Murray Street, Sonic Youth, Steve Shelley, Thurston Moore

On their most melodic album since Washing Machine, the NYC rock greats returned to a city they never left

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All You Men Are Slime: Sonic Youth’s Dirty at 30

July 27, 2022 Raymond Cummings 2 Comments 1992, 30th Anniversary, Beat Happening, Boredoms, Daniel Johnston, DGC, Dinosaur Jr., Dirty, Flipper, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Nirvana, Shonen Knife, Sonic Youth, Steve Shelley, Thurston Moore

It might not be their best record, but remains a sentimental fan favorite all these years later

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Clang Quartet: Blare Your Prayers

December 5, 2021December 5, 2021 Raymond Cummings 0 Comments Clang Quartet, Cruel Symphonies, Experimental, Judge Thy Neighbor Love Thyself, Noise

On the occasion of his first studio LP in eight years, Judge Thy Neighbor, Love Thyself, we caught up with mastermind Scotty Irving

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The Velvet Goldmine of Todd Haynes

October 12, 2021October 12, 2021 j. poet 0 Comments 2021, Apple TV+, documentary, John Cale, Lou Reed, Moe Tucker, Sterling Morrison, The Velvet Underground, Todd Haynes

The acclaimed director talks with Rock & Roll Globe about his upcoming Velvet Underground documentary premiering on Apple TV+

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Looking California, Feeling Minnesota: Celebrating 30 Years of Badmotorfinger

September 24, 2021September 24, 2021 Rachel Linhart 4 Comments

Why the third Soundgarden album is still their best

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Oh Well, Whatever: ‘Nevermind’ at 30

September 23, 2021April 3, 2022 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments 1991, Breed, Dave Grohl, DGC, Garth Brooks, Geffen, In Bloom, Krist Noveselic, Kurt Cobain, Mariah Carey, MC Hammer, Nevermind, Nirvana, On a Plain, Polly, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Territorial Pissings

The breakout success of the second Nirvana album was both a gift and a curse for Kurt Cobain

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