Features
Wednesday, January 27 2010
Part 3: From Porcupine Tree to Wye Oak
Slipped Discs continues with Norwegian electro pop, lots of Scottish pop goodness, two rock institutions, a Soviet born chanteuse and many more. All records that missed our top 60 list last year.
Friday, July 20 2007
Part 5: Public Enemy to Dixie Chicks (1989-2006)
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!
Saturday, December 23 2006
Best Albums of 2006
At long last, the annual rite of passage, the "best of" list... Here's PopMatters picks for the best 60 records of 2006.
Reviews
Thursday, March 17 2011
Sonic Youth: SYR9: Simon Werner a Disparu
This surprisingly coherent, entirely instrumental soundtrack is a testament to the range and power of a veteran band that, despite what you may have heard, is only getting better.
Monday, September 28 2009
Sonic Youth: 3 July 2009 - United Palace Theatre, New York
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
Monday, June 8 2009
Sonic Youth: The Eternal
It's official: Sonic Youth’s Geffen days are behind them. So, too, it seems, are the pop flirtations that developed with them.
Friday, July 25 2008
Sonic Youth - River to River Festival
Just like the Beatles belong to Liverpool, Nirvana to Seattle, and N.W.A. to Compton, Sonic Youth belongs to New York…
Thursday, July 17 2008
Sonic Youth: Hits Are for Squares
The question this album provokes isn't, “Why Starbucks?” It's, “Why do I care what Catherine Keener’s favorite Sonic Youth song is?”
Blogs
Monday, December 19 2011
Benediction: On Thurston Moore’s 'Demolished Thoughts'
Although Demolished Thoughts was released before the announcement of the breakup of Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon, it is unavoidably a document of this personal and professional transition.
Tuesday, November 8 2011
20 Questions: Don Fleming
The famed songwriter/producer and Sonic Youth BFF sits down with PopMatters to wax philosophical on the Beatles, tell us what it's like going through Marty Robbins' record collection, and why he bears a characteristic resemblance to Shaft . . .
Monday, October 12 2009
Sonic Youth - 'Daydream Nation' Video Collection (video)
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…
Tuesday, June 23 2009
Sonic Youth - "No Way" (Live on Jimmy Fallon) (video)
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,…
Tuesday, June 16 2009
Sonic Youth - "Sacred Trickster" (video)
A how-to video on destroying a pretentious socialite gathering, Sonic Youth-style.
