Sonic Youth

Alternative Rock Experimental Indie Rock Rock 

Thurston Moore and Eva Prinz Say Peace Out to Physical Media 

December 19, 2024December 19, 2024 Ron Hart 3 Comments Daydream Library Series, Eva Prinz, Flow Critical Lucidity, Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore

Couple’s Daydream Library Series goes all digital in 2025

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Alternative Rock Rock 

Sharing Horizons That Are New to Us: If I Were a Carpenter Turns 30

September 20, 2024September 20, 2024 Melody Esme 0 Comments 4 Non Blondes, American Music Club, Babes In Toyland, Dishwalla, If I Were A Carpenter, Johnette Napolitano, Karen Carpenter, Marc Moreland, Matthew Sweet, Redd Kross, Richard Carpenter, Sheryl Crow, Shonen Knife, Sonic Youth, The Carpenters

Looking back on a seminal, if flawed, tribute album to The Carpenters

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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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Records 

The ALBUM Section: March 2024

March 31, 2024April 30, 2024 Kara Tucker 0 Comments Act II: Cowboy Carter, Beyonce, Blackbiird, Blackbird, Columbia Records, Cowboy Carter, Dolly Parton, Epic Records, Invincible Shield, Jolene, Judas Priest, Kim Gordon, Matador Records, Miley Cyrus, Parkwood, Post Malone, Rob Halford, Sonic Youth, The Beatles, The Collective

Digging on the latest titles from Beyoncé, Kim Gordon and Judas Priest

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Alternative Rock Experimental Indie Rock Noise Post-Punk Rock 

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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Art Pop Indie Rock New Wave Noise Rock 

Kim Gordon Announces Second Solo Album

January 16, 2024January 16, 2024 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2024, Charli XCX, Clara Balzary, Coco Gordon Moore, Flea, Justin Raisen, Kim Gordon, Lil Yachty, Matador Records, Sonic Youth, The Collective, Yves Tumor

The Collective is due out March 8th on Matador Records 

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Alternative Rock Experimental Noise Post-Punk Punk Rock 

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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Beatle Pop Rock 

John Lennon: Our Four Favorite Reissues

October 9, 2023October 9, 2023 Ron Hart 0 Comments 83rd Birthday, Elvis Costello, Joe Strummer, John Lennon, Klaus Voormann, Kurt Cobain, Patti Smith, Paul McCartney, R.E.M., Ringo Starr, Sean Lennon, Sonic Youth, Stephen Brodsky, The Beatles, Yoko Ono

Going through our stash for his 83rd birthday

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Music Journalism 

Famous Quotes Vol. 46: July 2023

July 30, 2023July 30, 2023 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments Amanda Palmer, Benny & Joon, Charlie Reid, Craig Reid, Famous Quotes, Jaz Coleman, Jim Sullivan, Killing Joke, Kim Gordon, Neil Gaiman, Otis Redding, Paul Ferguson, Sonic Youth, The Consolers, The Dresden Dolls, The Proclaimers, Thurston Moore

Veteran rock critic Jim Sullivan looks back on a career of epic interviews in the latest installment of his inquisitive column

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Alternative Rock Experimental Indie Rock Noise Pop Rock 

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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Experimental Indie Rock Noise 

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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Festivals Indie Rock Post-Punk Punk 

Frantic City Is Me and Probably You

October 7, 2022 Dan Weiss 0 Comments Atlantic City, Car Seat Headrest, Control Top, Frantic City, Murder City Devils, New Jersey, Rocket From the Crypt, Samiam, Shannon and the Clams, Snail Mail, Sonic Youth, Superchunk, The Bouncing Souls, The Raveonettes, Titus Andronicus, Yo La Tengo

Superchunk, Rocket From The Crypt, The Bouncing Souls, Yo La Tengo and more rock Atlantic City

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Alternative Rock Experimental Noise Pop Rock 

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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Alternative Rock Indie Rock Noise Pop Rock 

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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Indie Rock Progressive Rock Rock 

…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead: If You Want Blood, You Got It

July 22, 2022July 22, 2022 Katherine Yeske Taylor 0 Comments ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, 2022, Austin, Black Flag, Conrad Keely, Dine Alone Records, Genesis, Jason Reece, Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, Public Enemy, Quadraphonic, Sonic Youth, Texas, XI: Bleed Here Now

Austin, TX’s own “Punk Floyd” goes Quadrophonic on their latest LP

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