Sonic Youth

By Elise Thompson After the amazing Redd Kross - Sonic Youth show at the Greek, we all headed over to an afterparty at El Cid. Thurston had asked punk legends Saccharine Trust to perform their classic album, Pagan Icons. The album thing was kind of a theme. If you want to know where bands like Nirvana got their ins...

By Elise Thompson So it was fascinating to see Sonic Youth playing the entire Daydream Nation album from beginning to end. They really had to adapt their style in order to function within the constraints of an album. There was still a lot of guitar-shaking and bass-to-amp action, but it was somehow very const...

By Elise Thompson If I had to make a list of my top 100 albums of all time, Redd Kross' Born Innocent would at least make the top 20. I can't even begin to describe how excited I was to learn that this album was going to be performed live as the opening act for Sonic Youth at the Greek. I had to get tickets for the show. Not...

By tony But because LAist dabbles in white slavery and international wire fraud we don't always have all the time that we should to listen to all the cds that come our way and for that we apologize; specifically to our pallie Sam, who emailed us last week with streams of a new Sonic Youth song "Kim's C...