Lee Ranaldo

Alternative Rock Noise Rock 

Just Being Totally Perfect: Sonic Nurse Turns 20

June 8, 2024June 8, 2024 Dan Weiss 1 Comment 2004, 20th Anniversary, Goo, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Mariah Carey, Murray Street, Rather Ripped, Sonic Nurse, Sonic Youth, Steve Shelley, Thurston Moore

Looking back on a high watermark in the Sonic Youth catalog

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Tower of Glower: On Sonic Youth’s Walls Have Ears

February 16, 2024February 17, 2024 Raymond Cummings 0 Comments 1986, Bad Moon Rising, Bob Bert, Brighton, Goofin' Records, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, London, Sonic Youth, Steve Shelley, Thurston Moore, UK, Walls Have Ears

How the band learned to stop worrying and love the bootleg

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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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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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Festivals 

Cheers to Ten Years of Big Ears

April 9, 2023April 9, 2023 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments Algiers, Bela Fleck, Big Ears Festival, Bonny Light Horseman, Calexico, David Byrne, Devendra Banhart, Iron & Wine, Knoxville, Lee Ranaldo, Los Lobos, Lucius, Rickie Lee Jones, Tennessee, The Bad Plus, The Mountain Goats

The Tennessee festival offers big options in terms of its diversity and dynamic

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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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‘The Guitar Guy Played Real Good Feedback’: Sonic Youth’s ‘Washing Machine’ At 25

September 28, 2020September 26, 2025 Zachary Corsa 0 Comments 1995, 25th Anniversary, Goo, Kim Deal, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, NYC Ghosts & Flowers, Sonic Youth, Steve Shelley, The Diamond Sea, Thurston Moore, Washing Machine

Looking back at an overlooked but fiercely loved classic from the NYC noise rock giants

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Put Me In The Equation, It’s Alright: Sonic Youth’s Goo At 30

July 7, 2020July 11, 2020 Zachary Corsa 0 Comments 1990, 30th Anniversary, Chuck D, DGC, Geffen, Goo, Karen Carpenter, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, LL Cool J, Public Enemy, Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore

Their beloved DGC debut has a sense of a band courting the mainstream on their own terms

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Alternative Rock Experimental Noise 

Death Poems for the Living Gods of America: Sonic Youth’s NYC Ghosts and Flowers Turns 20

May 21, 2020May 22, 2020 Dan Weiss 2 Comments 2000, Geffen, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, NYC Ghosts & Flowers, Sonic Youth, Steve Shelley, Thurston Moore

Where Pitchfork went wrong about SY’s most underrated LP

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Experimental Indie Rock Noise Post-Punk Records 

Satan Is Boring: Bad Moon Rising Turns 35

April 9, 2020April 9, 2020 Eric Davidson 0 Comments 1985, Bob Bert, Homestead Records, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Martin Bisi, Sonic Youth, Susstones, Thurston Moore

The Rock & Roll Globe talks exclusively with Lee Ranaldo, Bob Bert and producer Martin Bisi about Sonic Youth’s early masterpiece

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Punk 

Does ‘Fuck You!’ Sound Simple Enough?

October 18, 2018October 18, 2018 Ron Hart 0 Comments 1988, 30th Anniversary, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Sonic Youth, Steve Shelley, Thurston Moore

Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation Turns 30

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Punk Rock 

Everybody Says It’s Another Phase

September 4, 2018September 4, 2018 Raymond Cummings 0 Comments 1998, Jim O'Rourke, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Sonic Youth, Steve Shelley, Thurston Moore

Sonic Youth in 1998

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