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When underground punk meets Stars in Their Eyes
Original at EducationGuardian.co.uk
• Mon, Aug 10
Still, it's hard to remember that when "Sonic Youth" are on stage thrashing out a perfect cover of Youth Against Facism, when "Thurston Moore" looks and ...
Thurston Moore & Bill Nace
Original at Village Voice
• Sun, Aug 9
Thurston Moore & Bill Nace Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore is indie rock's Highlander. Want proof? He never ages, has been through every period of New York ...
Sonic Youth | 07.31 | Denver
Original at JamBase
• Fri, Aug 7
The mood of the crowd was energetic enough for a stadium, though, with the roar that went up when Thurston Moore lumbered onto the stage, you'd have thought ...
New DJ Spooky Features Thurston Moore,
Original at Chart Attack
• Wed, Aug 5
The record features collaborations with Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, The Coup, Rob Swift, The Jungle Brothers, Mike Ladd and more. ... DJ Spooky Releasing New Album Oct. 6thGlide Magazine all 3 news articles »
Thurston Moore and Carlos Giffoni
Original at Decider New York
• Tue, Aug 4
Tom Wolfe wrote, “You can't go home again,” but Thurston Moore might beg to differ. The prolific Sonic Youth frontman returns to his underground roots all ...
Concert review: Sonic Youth proves it's still a powerhouse concert ...
Original at San Jose Mercury News
• Mon, Aug 3
TimeOutDubai.com The first great moment came during a breakdown in "Sacred Trickster," where Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo's nasty guitar work morphed into beautiful noise ... Sonic YouthTimeOutDubai.com all 4 news articles »
Report: All Points West [Liberty State Park, NJ; 07/31/09-08/02/09]
Original at Pitchfork Media
• Mon, Aug 3
Sonic Youth made their "Guitar Hero" debut a while back, but this time they're represented with a relative obscurity: the Rather Ripped track "Incinerate". ... and more »
Sonic Youth review: Making beautiful noise at Denver's Ogden Theatre
Original at Colorado Daily
• Sat, Aug 1
SFStation.com Propelled by drummer Steve Shelley, guitarists Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo and Kim Gordon (replaced on bass by Pavement's Mark Ibold) locked into sludgy ... Sonic YouthSFStation.com all 3 news articles »
Friday Random Ten, July 31
Original at ScienceBlogs
• Fri, Jul 31
Sonic Youth, "Leaky Lifeboat (for Gregory Corso)": a track from the newest Sonic Youth album. This actually sounds more like older SY. ...
Review: Sonic Youth at Roseland Theater
Original at OregonLive.com
• Wed, Jul 29
Thurston Moore still shredded his guitar, Kim Gordon still danced around, and Steve Shelley impressively beat on his guitar with such conviction it produced ... Eternal cool: Sonic Youth on the 'TubeDecider Denver Sonic Youth adds to 'Eternal' outingLiveDaily.com
Sonic Youth Opine on Bloggers, Facebook, and Starbucks
Original at TwentyFourBit
• Tue, Jul 28
Seattle Times music writer Andrew Matson wasn't expecting a full interview with Lee Ranaldo, Thurston Moore, and Kim Gordon, but he got it, along with their ...
Awesome Color a Smokin' Sonic Prelude
Original at Just Out
• Tue, Jul 28
today's Sonic Youth Invasion 2009 – first with this afternoon's 3 pm in-store DJ-ing set at Jackpot Records (203 SW Ninth) with frontman Thurston Moore, ...
Sonic Youth springs Eternal
Original at vancouversun.com
• Mon, Jul 27
Ranaldo, guitarist/singer Thurston Moore, bassist/guitarist and singer Kim Gordon and drummer Steve Shelley united the No Wave Avant-Garde scene, ... and more »
Sonic Youth returns to its indie roots
Original at The Spokesman Review
• Fri, Jul 24
“Walkin' Blue” is a burning guitar jam that finds vocalist and guitarist Lee Ranaldo sporting smidgeons of Beatles-esque pop. Regardless of what label is ... and more »
Opinion: Recap: Sonic Youth at Turner Hall
Original at Decider Milwaukee
• Tue, Jul 21
Maybe Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon really haven't aged, as they appear. Gordon addressed the crowd at the start, saying, “It's nice to see all these girls ... CD review: The Eternal - Sonic YouthStuff.co.nz Concert Review: Sonic Youth at the UptownPitch Weekly
Sonic Youth hits its stride by taking a cue from the '80s indie ...
Original at IdahoStatesman.com
• Thu, Jul 16
The band, as usual, wrote collaboratively, with Moore, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Steve Shelley and new bassist Mark Ibold working out songs, then recording ... Concert Review: Sonic Youth at House of Blues in Dallas, July 15Pegasus News
[CD Review] Sonic Youth, 'The Eternal'
Original at OC Weekly
• Fri, Jun 12
Freed from the major-label machine that took them to a Starbucks counter near you , Sonic Youth are kicking harder than they have since coffee was cheap.
[CD Review] Sonic Youth, 'The Eternal' (Matador)
Original at OC Weekly
• Thu, Jun 11
CA “Sacred Trickster” finds Kim Gordon yelling about being “music on a tree” while the secretly specialized guitars pogo along, cutting and grinding. “Anti-Orgasm” has her finishing husband Thurston Moore's sexual-political verses over a vast, ...
CD Review: Sonic Youth, "The Eternal"
Original at topix.net
• Wed, Jun 10
Sonic Youth 'The Eternal' Grade: A- First, the past: With nearly 20 years on a major label behind them, Sonic Youth has headed over to indie titan Matador Records.
Album review: Sonic Youth's 'The Eternal'
Original at latimes.com
• Tue, Jun 9
Drummer Steve Shelley sends anxious, tumbling beats through "Driving the Snake," and singer-guitarist Lee Ranaldo builds great waves of abrasive sound and melody to signify warmth and feeling on "Walkin' Blue" with a brief, but recurring vocal harmony ...
CD Review: "The Eternal" by Sonic Youth
Original at Hartford Courant
• Mon, Jun 8
United States By ERIC R. DANTON | The Hartford Courant Sonic Youth (from left, Lee Ranaldo, Mark Ibold, Kim Gordon, Steve Shelley and Thurston Moore) releases its 16th studio album, "The Eternal." (MICHAEL SCHMELLING) After nearly 20 years, America's foremost ...
Opinion: Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon critical of "The Radiohead Model"
Original at Punknews.org
• Mon, Jun 8
In a recent interview, veteran musician Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth had some comments for the donation-based model popularized (but not invented) by Radiohead for the release of their album, In Rainbows in 2007. In a Guardian interview, Gordon offered ...
CD Review: 'The Eternal' by Sonic Youth
Original at Hartford Courant
• Mon, Jun 8
United States Lee Ranaldo's guitar crackles with restless energy as it gallops across opening song "Sacred Trickster," and he and guitarist Thurston Moore undermine the mellow chiming notes that open "Antenna" with controlled bursts of noise. ...
How To: Sonic Youth - Chapel Hill (cover by Thiago Farias using Fender Mini-deluxe)Original at YouTube
• Sat, Jun 6
By rss@youtube.com (thiagofarias) Author: thiagofarias Keywords: fender squier mini deluxe mini-deluxe tele telecaster chapel hill sonic youth dirty cover indie alternative tutorial Added: June 6, 2009
Opinion: New Music Report: Sonic Youth
Original at Rolling Stone
• Thu, Jun 4
Among the highlights are the Thurston Moore-sung ballad “Antenna,” Kim Gordon's catchy “Malibu Gas Station” and “Walkin' Blues,” perhaps guitarist Lee Renaldo's best song in years. In Rolling Stone's four-star review of Sonic Youth's latest, ...
Opinion: Sonic Youth, "The Eternal" (Matador) [3.5 STARS]
Original at Chicago Sun-Times
• Tue, Jun 2
This album is a celebration of newfound freedom," Thurston Moore has said. "Releasing this album with our friends at Matador feels like liberation, which inspired us during the recording process." Never mind that Sonic Youth always has posited itself ...
Review: Sonic Youth @ Scala
Original at Londonist
• Thu, Apr 30
The tried and tested SY techniques are also on display. Set opener She Is Not Alone sees Steve Shelley pounding away at the drums with beaters while the only drumstick on show is rammed into Thurston's fret board, and Lee Renaldo gives the ol' playing ... SET LIST: SONIC YOUTH Daily Star
“Sonic Youth: Sleeping Nights Awake,” WI Film Festival review
Original at UW Badger Herald
• Mon, Apr 6
WI One moment Kim Gordon is divulging her hesitations and the ideology of the group, and then we enter variety hour with the ever clever Thurston Moore. We hear from the men manning the technical equipment that they are still mystified by the shows, ...
CD REVIEW Nels Cline Drones On…
Original at The MIT Tech
• Thu, Mar 5
The third track, “Thurston County,” is an obvious tip of the hat to Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, a colleague of Cline’s. The song begins with a humorously sinister arpeggio supplanted with sirens that sound like a misbehaving theremin. ... Music Review: Nels Cline - Coward Blogcritics.org
Delaney Bramlett Passes
Original at Vintage Guitar
• Sat, Dec 27
Delaney Bramlett, 69, a singer, songwriter and producer who penned classic rock songs such as "Let It Rain" and worked with musicians George Harrison and Eric Clapton, died December 27 as a result of complications from gallbladder surgery. Born in Mississippi in 1939, Bramlett came to L...
[2008.12.04] JPJ Jams with Sonic Youth for Dance Score
Original at led-zeppelin.org
• Thu, Dec 4
Merce Cunningham At 90 will be the international premiere of a new evening-long dance work and a musical team-up between Sonic Youth, John Paul Jones and Takehisa Kosugi. This is not the first time Cunningham has inspired musical collaboration – his company performed with Radiohead and...
Music Review: Sonic Youth - Goo
Original at Blogcritics
• Sat, Nov 15
By Kyle West I have something to admit. The only real reason I bought Goo was because I heard "Kool Thing" on Guitar Hero III.But it got me to buy an amazing album, even if it was a little expensive. The record store didn't have any used, which should tell you something. This album is so amazing that no one ever r...
Lee Ranaldo, Leah Singer to perform at HVCC exhibit
Original at Albany Times Union
• Thu, Oct 30
Before Sonic Youth, Lee Ranaldo was a print maker who just happened to play guitar. Then the heavily amplified atonal band took off in the mid-1980s, releasing a slew of recordings and hitting the road for more than nine months a year for a decade.With such a busy schedule, visual art became s...
Thurston Moore, Jemina Pearl From Be Your Own Pet Cover the Ramones' "Sheena" for "Gossip Girl"
Original at OH NO!!
• Wed, Sep 24
By i had a budgie but it died When asked by Rolling Stone how he planned to spend his ATP downtime after performing his 1995 solo album Psychic Hearts as part of the Friday night Don't Look Back extravaganza, Moore replied, "Kim [Gordon]'s gonna show up pretty soon, and Jemina, my friend who sings in Be Your Own Pet, is...
[Book Review] Sonic Youth - Goodbye 20th Century
Original at Each Note Secure
• Thu, Aug 7
By Administrator What I may have been most impressed with was how, with Geffen Records, Sonic Youth almost served as more of a magnet band for others than a money making machine. Even the best selling SY records were still not considered a huge success ...
Book Review: Psychic Confusion - The Sonic Youth Story by Steve Chick
Original at Blogcritics
• Tue, Apr 15
Sonic Youth have always been a band shrouded in mystery. Spanning a career that's about to finish off its third decade, the band have carried with them both the avant garde and experimentation of the indie underground, as well as the commercial excess of the 1990s 'Alt-rock' scene. With ove...
Review: Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation:
Original at UponFirstListen
• Sun, Feb 10
Upon first listen if I wasn't keenly aware that this was a seminal album by a seminal artist I wouldn't have liked it too much. Conversely, if I had heard this live instead of on CD, I'd have loved it immensely. ...
Sonic Youth - Sydney Morning Herald
Original at Sydney Morning Herald
• Thu, Feb 7
Sonic Youth Australia - When Thurston Moore was asked to revisit Sonic Youth's 1988 album Daydream Nation, he wasn't keen. When Thurston Moore, singer and guitar strangler with ...
'Daydream Nation' finds a new Hero
Original at Entertainment Weekly
• Thu, Feb 7
By Simon Vozick-Levinson As a major Sonic Youth fan, I can't read that title without hearing the opening chords of their 1988 masterpiece of the same name. Now, I was sorta bummed when I saw Juno's Juno lash out at Sonic Youth on screen, calling one of my ...
Sonic Youth Review
Original at The NIC Sentinel
• Sun, Sep 16
Sonic Youth, a long-running indie rock group from New York City, recently reissued its 1988 album, "Daydream Nation." Numerous critics consider it an indie rock classic and one of the best albums of the '80s. Sonic Youth occupies a ...
Sonic Youth
Original at Chart Attack
• Thu, Aug 23
Sonic Youth*s Daydream Nation Coming In Deluxe Edition Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation Coming In Deluxe Edition Thursday May 24, 2007 @ 06:00 PM By: ChartAttack.com Staff Sonic Youth Here are the songs on the deluxe edition of Daydream Nation:
Opinion: Sonic Youth at the Greek 7-20-2007
Original at LAist
• Mon, Jul 23
By Elise Thompson So it was fascinating to see Sonic Youth playing the entire Daydream Nation album from beginning to end. They really had to adapt their style in order to function within the constraints of an album. There was still a lot of guitar-shaking and bass-to-amp action, but it was somehow very const...
Redd Kross at The Greek 7/20/2007
Original at LAist
• Sat, Jul 21
By Elise Thompson If I had to make a list of my top 100 albums of all time, Redd Kross' Born Innocent would at least make the top 20. I can't even begin to describe how excited I was to learn that this album was going to be performed live as the opening act for Sonic Youth at the Greek. I had to get tickets for the show. Not...
Opinion: Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Original at Rolling Stone
• Wed, Jun 13
Loosed on the world in 1988, Daydream Nation made alt-rock a life force. Over two vinyl discs containing just fourteen titles, it fused Sonic Youth's displaced guitar tunings with tunes as hummable as the Beatles' or the Ramones' ? a standard they've matched ever since, but never again wi...
Podcast: Ruby Isle Cover Sonic Youth
Original at stereogum
• Mon, Mar 26
Whether intended or not, Ruby Isle (comprising vet Mark Mallman and Dan Geller) is the first band to capitalize on the awesome news that Sonic Youth will be performing Daydream Nation in its entirety during a select few, very special...
Sonic Youth Shows Poseurs How It’s Done in NYC
Original at Rolling Stone
• Tue, Feb 20
By William Goodman Kicking off with a searing rendition of “Candle,” from 1988’s landmark album Daydream Nation, the band led a carefully-selected tour of their impressive catalog, delivering a set that leaned heavily on their latest record, Rather Ripped. “Incinerate,” “Rena” and a noteworthy rendit...
Daydream Nation
Original at 33third (Blogspot)
• Thu, Oct 12
By david@continuum-books.com (David Barker) Like any aesthetic experience worth pursuing to its conclusion, listening to Daydream Nation is a perilous, soul-blowout-type affair. For a record with a cover image so stark and serene, Daydream Nation features inordinately bracing turbulences, ghastly imagery, and hair-raising...
Sonic Youth @ The Wiltern LG
Original at tommykeswick.com
• Fri, Sep 29
By Tommy Blogged with Flock Last night was my 3rd time seeing SY on tour in support of Rather Ripped this year. Maybe because of that or because I was behind tall people the whole show, I wasn’t entirely blown away. The openers were way out there. The Skaters played one song for 20 minutes. It seemed like gu...
Flaming Lips/Weem/Sonic Youth/The Magic Numbers @ The New York State Fair (?!)
Original at UVTV
• Sat, Sep 2
By Gette Sonic Youth up next.� http://www.myspace.com/sonicyouth I love this band.� They changed the face of rock and roll and I am still impressed that they can do the major label thing and still keep their style and integrity.� Kim Gordon is god.� �������
SONIC YOUTH PREPARE FOR BUSY WEEK IN LOS ANGELES AS CRITICS PRAISE NEW RELEASE "RATHER RIPPED" | News
Original at geffen.com
• Thu, Jul 6
By Geffen July 8th LA private show for fans location tba July 9th show with Pearl Jam @ The Forum July 10th show with Pearl Jam @ The Forum July 11th Jimmy Kimmel Live - mini concert July 12th Indie 103.1 interview July 12th KROQ show for fans only Pearl Jam & Sonic Youth at The Fonda Theater