Sonic Youth

 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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Sonic Youth have always been a band shrouded in mystery. Spanning a career that's about to finish off its third decade, the band have carried with them both the avant garde and experimentation of the indie underground, as well as the commercial excess of the 1990s 'Alt-rock' scene. With ove...

By Mark Saleski This reissue might be under the "rock" category but it's closer to, well, it honestly deserves its own category. Let's jettison the cynicism often hurled at critics, because in the case of Daydream Nation, there are right. With all of the long form improvisations, dissonance, and grindin...

By Ray Ellis It's an indisputable fact that few bands were more influential in the evolution of post-punk music than Mission of Burma. They inspired contemporaries like Gang of Four and Sonic Youth, and paved the way for bands to follow, including the Pixies and Nirvana. Not too shabby for a band whose c...

By Jayson Harsin The band's other members provide some fascinating hooks that clearly glean from a hybrid of folk like Tom Waits and 80's synth-pop like O.M.D. They looked like indie American thirty-somethings. The lead singer was losing his hair a bit and, as it turned out, also his voice. Still, he was a good s...