Articles tagged "sonic youth"

Books Review

Grunge by Michael Lavine and Thurston Moore

by Brendan Fitzgerald

[26.Oct.09] :. Sub Pop's first lens on the grunge scene offers an early look at the signs of flannel to come, and the distinctive regional imprints on the sounds that followed punk.

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Sonic Youth - ‘Daydream Nation’ Video Collection (video)

by Tyler Gould

[12.Oct.09] :. Twenty one years ago this week: Sonic Youth released Daydream Nation, which has come to be regarded as one of the best records of the ‘80s. Click through for more videos from this...

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Events Review

Sonic Youth: 3 July 2009 - United Palace Theatre, New York

by Vijith Assar

[28.Sep.09] :. Classics like "Tom Violence" occasionally worked their way in, but for the most part the set list consisted of tunes from this year's triumphant new album The Eternal

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Sonic Youth - “No Way” (Live on Jimmy Fallon) (video)

by PopMatters Staff

[23.Jun.09] :. Sonic Youth ripped through “No Way” off their latest album The Eternal last night on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. Zach Schonfeld called the song, “a fantastic...

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Sonic Youth - “Sacred Trickster” (Live) (video)

by Joe Tacopino

[10.Jun.09] :. Pavement’s Mark Ibold joins Sonic Youth on bass as the band give a raucous performance of “Sacred Trickster” off their new, Matador-sponsored...

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Music Review

Sonic Youth: The Eternal

by Zach Schonfeld

[8.Jun.09] :. It's official: Sonic Youth’s Geffen days are behind them. So, too, it seems, are the pop flirtations that developed with them.

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Sonic Youth - The Eternal (stream)

by Joe Tacopino

[3.Jun.09] :. Here comes the sludge! Sonic Youth’s new album, The Eternal, isn’t due out until next week, but the band is more than happy to give you a sneak peek via iLike.com. Sonic...

Sonic Youth - “What We Know” (live) (video)

by PopMatters Staff

[30.Apr.09] :. Sonic Youth’s new record The Eternal drops on 9 June in the US and UK. The band previewed a new song, “What We Know”, from the record this week on Later… With Jools...

Sonic Youth - “Sacred Trickster” (MP3)

by PopMatters Staff

[20.Apr.09] :. Sonic Youth’s new record The Eternal releases 9 June in North America and a day earlier in the UK. There’s now an MP3 from the album available that Matador Records describes in the...

Sonic Youth: Preparing for Eternal

by Michael Edler

[10.Mar.09] :. Sonic Youth's 16th studio album Eternal is set to drop early this summer. I took a very brief look back to how we got here and, possibly, where Sonic Youth is going next.

Loose Nut in His Head: Raymond Pettibon Rediscovered…

by Robert Celli

[26.Jan.09] :. Human depravity, sexualized violence, macabre desires come to life in two dimensions; this is the world artist Raymond Pettibon renders in pen and ink.  It is a world mirrored sonically by the...

Juno (Deluxe): Music From the Motion Picture

by Chris Conaton

[1.Dec.08] :. How to capitalize on one of the few successful movie soundtracks of the past decade? Re-release it a year later with some "b-sides!"

Sonic Youth - River to River Festival

by Kirby Fields

[25.Jul.08] :. Just like the Beatles belong to Liverpool, Nirvana to Seattle, and N.W.A. to Compton, Sonic Youth belongs to New York…

Goodbye 20th Century by David Browne

by Kirby Fields

[21.Jul.08] :. On more than one occasion the band’s collective memory is not exactly in synch, a point that only further reminds us that we are reading a mythology, not a chronicle.

Sonic Youth: Hits Are for Squares

by Dave Heaton

[17.Jul.08] :. The question this album provokes isn't, “Why Starbucks?” It's, “Why do I care what Catherine Keener’s favorite Sonic Youth song is?”

Various Artists: This is Next

by Evan Sawdey

[1.Oct.07] :. The world is better for every new pair of ears that gets turned on to Of Montreal and Ted Leo. The only real question is this: do you really need this album to begin with?

Sonic Youth performs Daydream Nation

by Kirby Fields

[27.Aug.07] :. At their best, full-album concerts detach a recording from a particular place and time, making a case for the timelessness of its content. But, by the same token, trips down memory lane also have a way of hitting bumps in the road.

Daydream Nation by Matthew Stearns

by Chris Barsanti

[18.Jun.07] :. In other words, the pre-grunge, slashing cyberpunk poetry of Daydream Nation makes for an album that inspires ridiculously devoted fans.

Sonic Youth: The Destroyed Room

by Dave Heaton

[18.Dec.06] :. Sonic Youth's accidents and mistakes add up to an exciting new statement of their own.

Sonic Youth

by Ryan McDermott

[13.Jun.06] :. tear the mother to shreds.

Sonic Youth: Rather Ripped

by Dave Heaton

[9.Jun.06] :. A graceful question-mark to round out the Geffen era for Sonic Youth.

Sonic Youth: Sonic Youth

by Dave Heaton

[5.Apr.06] :. Three reminders of the multiple ways that Sonic Youth has played around with popular music over the last 25 years.

Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui Su Tim Barnes

by Dan MacIntosh

[30.Jan.06] :. This is a disc that shows off the avant-garde side of Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost: The Videos: 1990-2002 [DVD]

by Emily Sogn

[5.Oct.04] :. Sonic Youth is a band that comfortably wears the role of being exception to every rule.

Sonic Youth: Sonic Nurse

by Jason Korenkiewicz

[25.Jun.04] :. The involvement of newest member Jim O’Rourke has nurtured Sonic Youth into a comfort zone, allowing them to achieve both an accessible and challenging record, thereby giving the music world exactly what they need from a prodigious and legendary group.

Sonic Youth: Dirty [Deluxe Edition]

by Adrien Begrand

[4.Jun.03] :. Most of all, Dirty is the angriest album Sonic Youth has ever recorded. Nearly half of it seethes with rage and vitriol.

Sonic Youth: Murray Street

by Scott Thill

[25.Jul.02] :. Where the canonical Daydream Nation took aggressive trips into technical experimentation with clenched teeth and closed fists, Murray Street seems more interested in lighting up, putting the vibe in cruise control, and storytelling from the lighter fringe of the band’s sprawling creative geography