#sonic youth

Though this era of Sonic Youth saw the band’s cultural presence diminish below the horizon of the casual listener, it cemented them as a group willing to pursue their artistic vision wherever it took them.

Sonic Youth's 1995 album sees the band taking a more melodic approach to long-form jamming while still staying true to their art-damaged core principles.

Dirty was the closest that Sonic Youth came to being a truly mainstream rock band at the vanguard of a new wave of similar-sounding mainstream rock bands; even then, they could only go so far in seeking mass appeal.

Dirty, sudicio, sporco nelle intenzioni sonore, fantastico, brillante al netto del risultato finale nelle tracce. Minaccioso musicalmente, rumoroso come sempre, i Sonic Youth arrivano al settimo ca…

Sonic Youth constantly wrestle with how commercial they can get, and how commercial they want to be. It's the old question of Nietzsche's abyss, reformulated for the age of pop philosophy: Can you try to change the marketplace without it changing you

Sonic Youth's third album and SST debut introduced Steve Shelley to the world and showed that arty avant-gardisms and howling hardcore could be turned into genuine songs. It changed things for the band and for the underground they were a part of.

Daydream Nation might be more accessible than the likes of Confusion is Sex or Bad Moon Rising, but in its own way, the album is the biggest — and best — swing Sonic Youth ever took.

Bob Bert, the drummer who helped put the voodoo thud into early Sonic Youth before battering car parts with Pussy Galore, finally has a solo album out today with ‘Beach Bongo Bloodbath’ on Bar/None Records. For anyone who has followed the American un

The Sonic Youth EP is the perfect starting point for a career that balanced audacious, visceral experimentation with cerebral theorizing and punk rock attitude with an ear for a compelling tune.

Sonic Youth's noisy, messy and sloppy first two releases are excellent documents of how they began: on fire with ideas, driven half-mad by the grind of being young, poor and artistic in lower Manhattan and possessed with the desire to weld hardcore p

For the Sonic Youth fans who never wanted a hit, who always preferred the band at both their bleakest and most experimental, Bad Moon Rising might be their best.