Sonic Youth

The brilliant 71 minutes of music on Sonic Youth’s sixth album brazenly attempted to be iconic when it first came out in the fall of 1988, and it succeeded on every level. Similar to what the Velvet Underground did on The Velvet Underground and Nico in 1967, and Television on Marquee Moon in 1...

By Alex Young Sonic Youth had the honors of headlining the final show ever at McCarren. Supported by the likes of Vivian Girls, Times New Viking, and Wolf Eyes, the Thurston Moore led grouped performed a 15-song set, deemed by many as a show for the ...

 NY - Sep 2, 2008 The group played a set of mostly older material on Saturday, as well as two new songs, and Thurston Moore greeted the crowd by saying: “Welcome to the end ...

New York Times  UK - Sep 1, 2008 Guitarist Thurston Moore explained to the crowd that the band had only just begun writing material for a new album in the past few days and the new songs ... Everyone Out of the Pool (Yes, That Means You) New York Times all 4 news articles

“Welcome to the end of McCarren pool as we know it,” Thurston Moore said from the stage as his band, Sonic Youth, played the final show at what had quickly become an indie-rock mecca. “But next year we’ll all be swimming like little ...

Sonic Youth brings '80s, more recent rock to TLA  PA - Sep 1, 2008 Then came a string of songs from 1988's classic Daydream Nation, including Gordon's "The Sprawl" and "Cross the Breeze," guitarist Lee Ranaldo's "Hey Joni" ...

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 United States - “Welcome to the end of McCarren pool as we know it,” Thurston Moore said from the stage as his band, Sonic Youth, played the final show at what had quickly ...

 IL - Thurston Moore may be best known for bringing the noise with legendary alt-rockers Sonic Youth, but his musical output is far from confined to his work with ...

 IL - Aug 27, 2008 Kim Gordon out of the picture during her cameo on Sonic Youth’s “Bull in the Heather” video and forced Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley to ...

 IL - Aug 26, 2008 There's one label we are certainly going to go with at this point," Thurston Moore recently told Rolling Stone's Rock & Roll Daily blog. ...

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Sonic Youth Leave Geffen, Signing with "Indie" Label, Map Out New ...  Canada - Aug 26, 2008 According to the band’s Thurston Moore, since they fulfilled their contractual obligations to Geffen Records with 2006’s Rather Ripped, the group will now ...

Thurston Moore has announced that Sonic Youth is returning to its indie roots after a lengthy period with major label Geffen. Moore, who recently courted controversy by releasing a Sonic ...

 UK - And you can expect a 'new band-zone-vibe' for their next album Sonic Youth have begun working on a new album, Thurston Moore has disclosed, and, ...

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Sonic Youth begin writing new 'indie' album  UK - Aug 26, 2008 Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore has revealed that his band are in the process of writing a new studio album set to be released on an indie label. ... Sonic Youth leave major label after nearly 20 years guardian.co.uk all 2 news articles

 NY - He also directed the music video of Sonic Youth’s “Disappear,” and that led to Kim Gordon having a cameo in this movie. I have to admit that the movie left ...

As the name (which actually comes from a DNA song) suggests, New York’s Blonde Redhead incorporates a rich variety of sometimes contrasting ideas. Formed by twin Italian brothers (Simone and Amedeo Pace on guitar and drums) and two unrelated Japanese women (Kazu Makino and Maki Takahas...

 OH - 1976-1980 by Thurston Moore (of Sonic Youth) and Byron Coley is the definitive look at the No Wave movement of the late 1970s to the early 1980s. ...

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By Alyse Wax A blending of art, film, and music that began in the New York underground scene, No Wave belonged to no fixed genre. It defied description.No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York. 1976-1980 by Thurston Moore (of Sonic Youth) and Byron ...

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By Irina Aleksander “She hasn’t been around here in like a year, and then she was nowhere, and then she just shows up in New York being seen every single night,” said a 28-year-old male model who lives in Los Angeles and is part of the bicoastal Beatrice-Chateau Marmont crowd. “She’s going to like every concert a...

By Smiley Sonic Youth have nothing to prove. They operate in a hard-won sphere of existence that doesn't rely on much outside approval in order to both be and provide its' members with a vocation and calling. They've been bringing it since 1981 ...

 IL - Aug 12, 2008 The crowd cheers when Thurston Moore rushes in, his brittle guitar tone initially charging but eventually locking with Gordon's. After guitarist Lee Ranaldo ...

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 NY - Bassett's solo work as Zaimph sometimes evokes Sonic Youth, or Neil Young at his most extreme. Other reference points may veer even further into the ...

Alan Licht digs deep. In underground music circles he is known not only for his often challenging solo recordings, but also his collaborations with avant-blues guitarist Loren Connors, free jazz drummer Rashied Ali, and Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo. Although Licht’s solo recordings have...

 NEW YORK - Martsch liked the idea when he heard that Sonic Youth was performing "Daydream Nation." Asked what album she'd most like to hear performed live, Phair, ...

By cindy The recording initially begins with Kim Gordon (bass, guitars and vocals), followed by the addition Steve Shelley (drums), then Lee Ranaldo (vocals and guitar), Thurston Moore (vocals and guitar) comes in next, Jim O’Rourke (bass, ...

 PA - The recent The Hold Steady concert in Baltimore cemented that, and now tops the Sonic Youth, Ween and The Flaming Lips show in Allentown as the best show of ...

By Mark C. Chu-Carroll none@example.com Sonic Youth, "Rats": typical Sonic Youth. That means that it's fantastic, strange, full of odd tonalities and controlled noise. It somehow manages to be smooth and mellow and noisy and dark all at the same time. Godspeed You! ...

IN AN IMPRESSIVE collaboration, Sonic Youth founder Thurston Moore and music writer and editor Byron Coley have released an image-heavy book delving deep into New York's No Wave scene.

 IL - The name is a Guided by Voice reference, but the Thrift jam like early Geffen-era Sonic Youth. On demo "Neues", they set up a perfectly tuneful song, ...

Sonic Youth's SYR8: Andre Sider At Sonic Youth presents the band's 2005 Roskilde Festival performance with Mats Gustafsson and Merzbow. Other than the U2 remastered box set, the vinyl reissues dominate this week's release list. ...

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We at Prefix wish Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore the best as he reaches the half-century mark (oy). I was ...

By Kirby Fields Just like the Beatles belong to Liverpool, Nirvana to Seattle, and NWA to Compton, Sonic Youth belongs to New York…

Doors 4pm. $35.00 tickets on sale this Friday at Noon. This will be Sonic Youth's fourth show in McCarren Pool's short history as a concert venue - two were with Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and one was "Daydream Nation".

 - Sonic Youth, "Queen Anne Chair": a wonderful little snippet. This is off of Sonic Youth's album "The Destroyed Room", which is assembled from experimental ...

 SC - A review of Goodbye, 20th Century: A Biography of Sonic Youth by David Browne. Da Capo Press, 416 pages, $26. BY RODNEY WELCH Thirty years after they ...

Stuff.tv  IL - Jul 14, 2008 There's awesome stuff like Mastodon's "Colony of Birchmen" and Interpol's "PDA" and Sonic Youth's "Teenage Riot" and the Replacements' "Alex Chilton" and, ... Harmonix and MTV Games Unveil Setlist for Rock Band(TM)2 - The ... MarketWatch all 134 news articles

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 Canada - A blast of noisy post-punk set to thumping, pumping tom-toms, this wouldn't be out of place on a Sonic Youth CD -- until the slide guitar comes in, anyway. ...

 NY - Thurston Moore, founding member of the post-punk group Sonic Youth appears tonight with David Browne, a journalist who has specialized in writing about ...

By Anthony Miccio 1. Green Day American Idiot is their biggest album since Dookie, so the boys probably aren't ready to get back in touch with their inner Gillman St. An Operation Ivy reunion, though? With Rancid now stuck with the drummer from the Used, that shit could happen tomorrow.

 - However, this past Friday I received a thorough ass-whooping from punk hero/Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore, in what has to be the most memorable ...

Noah & The Whale cancels NYC shows. Radiohead ballet. Video of Sonic Youth playing Battery Park (including the part where Thurston went nuts on the photographers) below... What else? Sonic Youth in Battery Park.

By John Del Signore Hometown post-punk heroes Sonic Youth played a free show for approximately 7000 fans in Battery Park on July 4th as part of the River to River Festival. The decades-old band started the set with a spellbinding, spacey rendition of “She ...

By Robert Zelda, the Battery Park Turkey likes Sonic Youth. Scroll through the pics of the July 4 show in Battery Park and, at the very end, and find Sonic Youth's most feathered fan. Zelda lives! [Brooklyn Vegan]

 IL - Mere months after the release of the seventh installment in Sonic Youth's even-more-experimental SYR series, plans have already been drawn up to bring out ...

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 TX - Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo and Mark Ibold are all charismatic people. This film could make someone a Sonic Youth fan. Finally, the audience for ...

By david Sonic Youth: “Swimsuit Issue” was named after the SY song of the same name and was written specifically for an anthology of SY-inspired fiction called The Empty Page (Serpent’s Tail). It includes a character who tries to serenade an ...

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 ...

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*s Daydream Nation Coming In Deluxe Edition Sonic Youth Geffen will issue the CD version, while the band's own Goofin' label will oversee the vinyl. Daydream Nation was originally released as a two-LP set. Here are the songs on the deluxe edition of Daydream Nation: