Sonic Youth

Look Back series has been coaxing bands to play one of their greatest albums, and they've successfully wrangled the likes of Low, the Stooges, Teenage Fanclub, Mudhoney, and Sonic Youth — who, in 2006, played 1988's Daydream Nation — to commit. ...

Sonic Youth also return today with The Eternal, the band's fantastic 16th album that earned four stars. Three decades into their career, the New York art rockers show no signs of wear or slowing down as they've produced an album that touches upon all ...

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, ...

 - 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 ...

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...

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...