Part 5: Public Enemy to Dixie Chicks (1989-2006)

By PopMatters Staff

The brave, early activists of the US AIDS movement knew that Silence = Death. Throughout history it's "Put up", we're told, "Shut up", we're threatened. Praise to those who set their protest to song and act up! [20 July 2007]

Best Albums of 2006

By PopMatters Staff

At long last, the annual rite of passage, the "best of" list... Here's PopMatters picks for the best 60 records of 2006. Stay tuned tomorrow for the best re-issues, as well as ongoing genre top 10s the rest of this week, culminating in the year's best musical events on Friday. [23 December 2006]

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

By Vijith Assar

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 [28 September 2009]

Sonic Youth: The Eternal

By Zach Schonfeld

It's official: Sonic Youth’s Geffen days are behind them. So, too, it seems, are the pop flirtations that developed with them. [8 June 2009]

Sonic Youth - River to River Festival

By Kirby Fields

Just like the Beatles belong to Liverpool, Nirvana to Seattle, and N.W.A. to Compton, Sonic Youth belongs to New York… [25 July 2008]

Sonic Youth: Hits Are for Squares

By Dave Heaton

The question this album provokes isn't, “Why Starbucks?” It's, “Why do I care what Catherine Keener’s favorite Sonic Youth song is?” [17 July 2008]

Sonic Youth performs Daydream Nation

By Kirby Fields

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. [27 August 2007]

Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation

By Adrien Begrand

Sonic Youth's masterpiece finally gets the deluxe treatment. [12 June 2007]

Sonic Youth: The Destroyed Room

By Dave Heaton

Sonic Youth's accidents and mistakes add up to an exciting new statement of their own. [18 December 2006]

Sonic Youth

By Ryan McDermott

tear the mother to shreds. [13 June 2006]

Sonic Youth: Rather Ripped

By Dave Heaton

A graceful question-mark to round out the Geffen era for Sonic Youth. [9 June 2006]

Sonic Youth: Sonic Youth

By Dave Heaton

Three reminders of the multiple ways that Sonic Youth has played around with popular music over the last 25 years. [5 April 2006]

Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui Su Tim Barnes

By Dan MacIntosh

This is a disc that shows off the avant-garde side of Sonic Youth [30 January 2006]

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

By Emily Sogn

Sonic Youth is a band that comfortably wears the role of being exception to every rule. [5 October 2004]

Sonic Youth: Sonic Nurse

By Jason Korenkiewicz

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

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

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

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

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

Mixed Media: Sonic Youth - “Sacred Trickster” (video)

Mixed Media: Sonic Youth - “Sacred Trickster” (Live) (video)

Mixed Media: Sonic Youth - The Eternal (stream)

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

Mixed Media: Sonic Youth - “Sacred Trickster” (MP3)

Sound Affects: Sonic Youth: Preparing for Eternal

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. [10 March 2009]

Sonic Youth: September - December 2009