it." "Matador is a super strong, high-profile label with an indie distribution system that is exactly what a band like us in this current climate need...
in St. Louis. A Beck/Sonic Youth split 7" is being released by Matador on April 18 for Record Store Day. Sonic Youth recently collaborated with the Me...
... ." Moore does reveal, however, that Sonic Youth are currently in the writing-stage of their next album. In November, they'll hit the studio to cut...
article last ... & Hound 26 London The Borderline ---Video: Joe Gideon & The Shark 'DOL'--- Marmaduke Duke Biffy Clyro frontman Simon Neill and Sucipi...
Sonic Youth have unveiled the video for "Sacred Trickster," the opening track off their 16th album and latest masterpiece The Eternal. With only two m...
in front of them with inhuman precision, grace and control. "Nearly Ninety" is Cunningham's newest work — an evening-long performance and celebration ...
Deliver," the first new song recorded by the band since their reunion. Sonic Youth have long been the authority on pop culture and art in New York Cit...
Photo: Ota/Getty My Bloody Valentine will curate 2009's ATP: The Nightmare Before Christmas festival, which goes down at Minehead, England's Butlins H...
Lifeboat (For Gregory Corso)" or the hauntingly majestic "Antenna." When Sonic Youth returned for a one-song encore, they whipped out Lee Ranaldo's Da...
band performing at the union of the show's star-crossed adult lovers, Rufus and Lily. When ... the episode aired last night, viewers found out Rufus h...
Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon brought a dose of experimental art back to Tribeca last Friday ... Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon Brings Experimental Thrills to Tr...
Oberst, Tenacious D, Spank Rock, Joe Satriani, Cypress Hill, filmmaker Michael Moore and many more ... Kanye West, Rage, Sonic Youth Rally Against Ari...
recruited X, Teenage Fanclub, Deerhunter and Gang of Four for their lineup, though "Kelley really wanted Emmylou Harris and Ralph Stanley," Kim Deal t...
Sonic Youth have unveiled the video for "Sacred Trickster," the opening track off their 16th album and latest masterpiece The Eternal. With only two m...
Photo: Gershoff/WireImage Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon and the rest of Sonic Youth are joining Chuck Bass, Blair Waldorf and the cast of TV's hottest sh...
obscure to sometimes dissonant and fierce. For a large portion of the show the audience struggled to make out who was who behind the large canvass. It...
by Ryan Muir You gotta give it to veteran producer and former Big Black/current Shellac frontman Steve Albini-- dude is indie as fuck. So indie, in fa...
Phil Collins to Write Book on Texas ArtifactsPhil Collins, who recently released the album Going Back, will now focus on writing a book about his coll...
for musicians to boycott the state of Arizona. So far, they've rounded up an impressive list of artists to commit to the boycott: Kanye West, Sonic Yo...
acoustic version of the Evol track "Star Power" that the group performed on a recent episode of Gossip Girl. [Pitchfork] Sebadoh Plan Reissue and Reun...
Photo by Michael Schmelling Indie originators Sonic Youth have offered the world a nice little gift on this freezing Friday: A free mixtape streaming ...
Sonic Youth's soundtrack to the latest film from French director Fabrice Gobert, Simon Werner a Disparu (aka Lights Out) is headed for release. Accord...
Confessions, this summer. Relapse describes the High Confessions' sound as "a real heavy, psychedelic rock." On March 20, Shelley will perform with Le...
Sonic Youth's soundtrack to the latest film from French director Fabrice Gobert, Simon Werner a Disparu (aka Lights Out), is out now on the band's SYR...
vintage posters, as well as a pair of band-branded Vans from the era that produced their 1992 LP Dirty, with 100% of the funds raised going to Shelter...
Hormoaning EP was originally available on the band's 1992 Australian and Japanese tours. It features two Nirvana originals, "Aneurysm" and "Even in Hi...
Nirvana and Sonic Youth Reissue Tour EPs Nirvana and Sonic Youth will be reissuing out-of-print tour EPs from 1992 on vinyl for Record Store Day on Ap...
Black and Ted Leo will do a set of Minor Threat numbers. Photos: Random Notes The concert will also include members of Dirty Projectors performing mus...
Photos by Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, and Steve Shelley, Merrill Garbus (tUnE-yArDs), Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Fugazi's I...
Lee Ranaldo performs at Le Point Ephemere in Paris. Samuel Dietz/Redferns Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo is the long-running New York art-rock band...
happen and it's been for the most part an incredibly pleasurable ride. There's still a lot of stuff we're going to continue to do. There's tons and to...
piece of sad news, 57-year-old proto-punk pioneer and renknowned mutli-media artist Mike Kelley passed away today in his Los Angeles home. The man res...
Sonic Youth fans were in a tizzy in November when rock's longtime king and queen, Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon, announced they were getting a divorce...
In conversation with BBC Radio 5's Sam Huxley, Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo discussed the band's plans to release lots of archival audio and film...
16 Photos » It is difficult to imagine indie rock without Sonic Youth. Only the Velvet Underground can reasonably boast a more important alternative h...
Over the weekend, Sonic Youth promised some "news" at noon today. The group has been hiatus since shortly after band mainstays Thurston Moore and Kim ...
As Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo recently told BBC Radio 5, the band is using its indefinite hiatus to work on several archival projects. That inc...
On the morning of July 4, 1999, a Ryder truck holding Sonic Youth's massive collection of one-of-a-kind modified touring gear (amps, drums, pedals, gu...
A refreshing thing about hearing Lee Ranaldo describe the saga surrounding Sonic Youth's two recently recovered guitars was his way of talking about t...
On 11/13, Sonic Youth will release Sonic Youth - Smart Bar - Chicago 1985, recorded on 8/11/1985, during the band's tour behind Bad Moon Rising. The p...
Sonic Youth: "Intro/Brave Men Run (In My Family)" [Live] (via YouTube) On November 13, Sonic Youth will release a new live album, Smart Bar - Chicago ...
Sonic Youth may have taken a break (a potentially very long break), but that doesn't mean that they are done releasing albums. Last month, the band an...
a year since Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Mangum made his surprise appearance at Zuccotti Park in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Now, on Nov...
Indie songstress Sharon Van Etten is currently on the road and scheduled to perform at New York's Town Hall on November 15. According to BrooklynVegan...
grainy YouTubes posted after the fact. But tonight, you can watch Mangum perform live at New York City's Le Poisson Rouge for "The People's Bailout", ...
With Found Footage, we dig through the depths of archival video online. From live clips to interviews and music videos, we uncover the best visual doc...
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