Sonic Youth

Murray Street

$8.98 (10% OFF) from Buy.com • is Sonic Youth's 16th official full-length release to date, it also marks the 21st year of the band's existence gaining them legal entry into radical adulthood. Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Steve Shelley along with new guy Jim O'Rourke (a lad with his own fascinating and supersonic history) have proven to be a seminal force in the world of contemporary and avant-garde music and art, their noted influence on people who make and listen to music everywhere continues undaunted and profound to this day. Murray Street was created at the band's self-built echo canyon studio--located on Murray Street in downtown NYC--a neighborhood ravaged by the nightmare of 9/11. Though the record was being readied prior to this severe devasta...

Rather Ripped

$12.98 from Buy.com • In 2005 it was time for Sonic Youth to record a new CD to bust out for 2006. Before they did they revisited awesome Japan, toured the boroughs of New York, rollicked at the first Arthurfest in L.A., and released the special deluxe edition of GOO. After one final gnarl out in Brazil w/ Flaming Lips, The Stooges and others Mr. Jim O'Rourke decided to concentrate full-time on his Japanese studies of language and film and SY was subsequently back to it's OG nucleus of Kim-Thurston-Lee-Steve. Songs were written, Jim recommended engineer TJ Doherty and J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr) recommended mix engineer John Agnello and SY created the oddly titled Rather Ripped. The whole deal was recorded in the waning hours of 05 into the dawn sunshine of 06 at the venerab...

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