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Edward Rogers: The Artful Dodger of Astor Place

October 31, 2025October 31, 2025 Dave Steinfeld 0 Comments 2025, Astor Place, Colin Blunstone, Don Fleming, Edward Rogers, New York City, Steve Shelley, Tony Shanahan

A candid chat with a legendary NYC scenester

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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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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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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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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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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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Alternative Rock Experimental Indie Rock 

ALBUMS: The Freewheeling Thurston Moore

December 7, 2020October 2, 2023 Raymond Cummings 0 Comments 2020, By The Fire, Daydream Library, Deb Googe, James Sedwards, My Bloody Valentine, Steve Shelley, Thurston Moore

On By The Fire, Moore and company tease his singer-songwriter muse further out

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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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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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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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