Sonic Youth

Browne notes that anyone who's ever worn an ironic t-shirt owes a debt to Thurston Moore and Sonic Youth. As such Goodbye 20th Century is a worthy history for most, if not all, t-shirt wearers." (thx BF) More...

Goodbye 20th Century: A Biography of Sonic Youth - Huffington Post

Indonesia’s 347: Cultural Commentary or Borrowed Design? - PSFK

Global fashion, remixed - Inside Indonesia

 - 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 ...

 NY - Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo guests with the Bang On a Can All-Stars tonight at MASS MoCa’s Hunter Center, playing his music, that of Ornette Coleman, ...

 IL - Indeed, even with big-time moves like a Sonic Youth compilation that's available only in Starbucks and a book with his name on it available in Border's, ...

 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 ...

 IL - We thought is was going to be nigh impossible to top last year's performance of Daydream Nation by Sonic Youth, but we think Friday's headliner might just ...

Gigwise  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 201 news articles

 IL - Fuzzying their music up with bits of Sebadoh-like lo-fi and distortion and noise borrowed from the group that inspired their name, Sonic Youth, ...

 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.

1001 discos para ouvir antes de morrer - Jhuly Johns

Pitchfork Fest? Nah, I'm going back to Cleveland that weekend . . . - Next Best Records

 TX - You might think that Sonic Youth, over the past couple of albums, have mellowed somewhat. It's arguable that both Sonic Nurse and Rather Ripped are ...

 - 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]

Eric Holland raves about Sonic Youth's performance at Battery Park in NYC on Independence Day, 2008.

 AZ - Pearl Jam gave me that teenage feeling (apologies to Sonic Youth) and trust me, I am way on the flip side of teenager. But at those shows, I was right back ...

 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 ...

 NY - MUSIC: If you missed out on Sonic Youth on the 4th, catch Thurston Moore at the intimate club Rehab on the 5th. He'll be joined by Gene Moore Duo and Metal ...

 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 Leigh Armstrong You might think this could be a Sonic Youth tribute band, but you'd be dead wrong. You know you're going to be in for a great night when you can't tell the difference between the sound check and the start of the show. ...

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 ...

 NY - There are those who say the technical innovations of bands like Mission of Burma and Sonic Youth were the best. There are even those relative ...

 United States - The Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore recalled seeing the Feelies at the Mudd Club in the late ’70s. “They came out and proceeded to just mow the place ...

If it didn't I think I'd be done in by the sexual innuendo of "Just a Little Heat" by The Black Keys from the album Magic Potion (2006, 3:42), or these lyrics from "Karen Revisited" by Sonic Youth from the album Murray Street (2002, ...

Josh, Thurston Moore, Byron Coley @ Other Music - June 14, 2008 (Leftist). The Feelies kick off their three-show reunion run at Maxwell's on Tuesday July 1st. Then comes July 2nd at Maxwell's, and finally July 4th with Sonic Youth at ...

 WA - But it took Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore to make the connection. Moore invited Flipper to play England’s All Tomorrow’s Parties music festival, ...

 OH - Playing a slinky strain of post-punk/new-wave urban squall in the vein of Kim Gordon's contributions to Sonic Youth, the gal pals have earned the reputation ...

 UK - One of 347’s designs, for instance, features an almost exact copy of the album cover for ‘Goo’ by the New York art punk band Sonic Youth. ...

Sonic Youth Biography Review - The Music Press Report

Goodbye 20th Century: A Biography of Sonic Youth - Huffington Post

Global fashion, remixed - Inside Indonesia

By Brian Turner photo: Guardian) Live over WFMU: We just received word that we will be broadcasting Sonic Youth's set live from Battery Park on July 4th! Tune in somewhere around 4:45 PM during Hot Rod's fill-in for Billy Jam and join FMU's parkside ...

 Indonesia - One of 347’s designs, for instance, features an almost exact copy of the album cover for ‘Goo’ by the New York art punk band Sonic Youth. ...

Sonic Youth Biography Review - The Music Press Report

Goodbye 20th Century: A Biography of Sonic Youth - Huffington Post

Indonesia’s 347: Cultural Commentary or Borrowed Design? - PSFK

One of the Big Blogger’s favorite music videos circa 1988. It’sa who’s who of indie rockers, cult heroes and artists that inspired Sonic Youth during their formative years in the underground music scene.

By phloggist Rock Band did a solid job of this - Radiohead, The Pixies, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, REM, The Cars, and Blur all work as "the idea." But then the Jimmy Buffett pack is, uh, not. Even if the sales figures ultimately prove me wrong. ...

SATURDAY, JUNE 14 @ 6:30PM - 8PM OTHER MUSIC: 15 East 4th Street NYC Free admission / Limited capacity. Tickets were also just given out to the free show Sonic Youth is playing in Battery Park on July 4th (event #3)

Thurston Moore In Training, Bonnaroo 2007 (snerko). Tickets are required and space is limited. The tickets are free and will be available by reservation on this website starting at noon on Thursday, June 12. There's a strict limit of 2 ...

By Peter Sonic Youth's distinctive, uncompromising sounds have provided a map for innumerable musicians who followed, from '90s groundbreakers like Nirvana and Pavement to current faves like the Strokes and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. ...

By Danielle Furfaro In what be the Lark Street coup of the year, the Albany Sonic Arts Collective has booked Sonic Youth guitarist and singer Thurston Moore. Just in case you’ve been living in a mall for the past 30 years, Sonic Youth is a pioneering art ...

Sonic Youth's greatest hits compilation has been catching a lot of crap lately, simply for only being sold through the Starbucks chain.

Sonic Youth releases Hits Are For Squares on Starbucks's label - MusicRadar.com - The place for music makers

"If you're off the grid, I'll listen to you" - topix.net

"If you're off the grid, I'll listen to you" - Reason Online - Reason Online

 Ireland - In their early days, Sonic Youth used to come on stage and play Bad Moon Rising from start to finish. REM performed both Green and Murmur in full on the ...

Radio Pasado - Imperfectlikeus

Is There Anyone In Music Who Doesn't Wish It Was 1989? - Color Me Impressed

Liz Phair Creative For First Time In 15 Years - Cinema Blend - Cinema Blend

Reviewed by Michaelangelo Matos May 27th, 2008 "Seasick" by Free Kitten Neither the new album by Free Kitten, the long-running on-and-off second band of Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon, nor Sonic Youth's latest ...

Via Brooklyn Vegan , I see that post-punk heroes Sonic Youth have announced the track listing for Hits Are for Squares , a new "best of" compilation that will be available exclusively at Starbucks stores.

Sonic Youth releases Hits Are For Squares on Starbucks's label - MusicRadar.com - The place for music makers

Opposites Attract: Sonic Youth And Starbucks - topix.net

"If you're off the grid, I'll listen to you" - Reason Online - Reason Online

By Anthony Miccio As may you may have heard, Sonic Youth has decided to skip the traditional best-of route, instead getting famous friends like Mike D, Radiohead and Eddie Vedder to pick less familiar, more personal choices like "100%," "Kool Thing," and ...

If you're off the grid, I'll listen to you"  CA - Via Brooklyn Vegan, I see that post-punk heroes Sonic Youth have announced the track listing for Hits Are for Squares, a new "best of" compilation that will ...

Sonic Youth releases Hits Are For Squares on Starbucks's label - MusicRadar.com - The place for music makers

Opposites Attract: Sonic Youth And Starbucks - topix.net

"If you're off the grid, I'll listen to you" - topix.net

By Chris Scott Barr Blondie “Hanging On The Telephone”; The Clash “Train in Vain (Stand by Me)”; Sonic Youth “Kool Thing”. This has to be one of the first times that a trio of songs has been available in a pack together without actually having some cool ...

Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation (Music Review) - PopMatters

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:

By Gette This show was at the New York State Fair in Syracuse, NY. 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.�

By Geffen Santa Monica, California, July 5, 2006 - On the heels of the June 13th release of their new (and critically-revered) album Rather Ripped, Sonic Youth will arrive in Los Angeles this weekend to kick of a week long stretch of performances and promotional duties.