A week after Thurston Moore spilt the beans about Sonic Youth going indie for their next album, Gerard Cosloy of Matador Records has made it official ...
Web 2.0 continues to demystify the thrill of the hunt fans get from looking for scraps of information about their favorite musicians' latest projects....
musician with the Company's in London. Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore performed with the Company in the late 1990's. John Paul Jones and Sonic Youth per...
Details about Sonic Youth's upcoming 19th album, The Eternal, have been leaking out a snail's pace over the last few months. First there was news that...
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...
varying degrees of quality. But the bizarro world festivities really came to a head in the clip above, which features a verse each by most of the perf...
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...
to a French film titledSimon Werner a Disparu. The band wrote about the undertaking earlier this week ontheir Facebook page: "Finishing SYR 9 Simon We...
The members ofPavementhave claimed that they won't be extending their reunion beyond the spate of dates set for this year. The potentially short-lived...
Matt Groenig, that guy who doesThe SimpsonsandFuturama,curated All Tomorrow's Parties in Minehead, U.K., this year. He drew pictures of the musicians ...
Matt Groenig, that guy who doesThe SimpsonsandFuturama,curated All Tomorrow's Parties in Minehead, U.K., this year. He drew pictures of the musicians ...
Elijah Wood has taken a break from acting to curate a new charity album, which will be in aid of a non-profit organization that brings artists into ho...
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...
In 1991, Sonic Youth was on tour tearing through Europe. Opening for the band was a rising grunge outfit from Seattle called Nirvana. The tour became ...
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...
Thurston Moore has a new album out named Demolished Thoughts, but he's not letting that get in the way of the work with his main band. Moore claims So...
Indie heavyweights Sonic Youth are reportedly talking about beginning work on a new album. Thurston Moore told the NME that the band plans to get toge...
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...
An interview with Sonic Youth axeman Lee Ranaldo was published today on Rolling Stone's website. After the announcement of bandmates' Thurston Moore a...
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...
Yoko Ono will release a collaborative album with Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore on September 25 via Chimera Music. The six-track album, t...
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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Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth. Paul Morigi/WireImage Kim Gordon explained the details of her split from husband and Sonic Youth bandmate Thurston Moore in...
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