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Sonic Youth

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2011

    Rick Ross health scares, a big change in the Sonic Youth dynamic: A look at the week that was

    ​Hey! Yo! What's up? The Week That Was is back. Sure, we've been away for a good long while, but too much crazy shit's gone down this week. Enjoy!

  • Music

    July 13, 2011
  • Music

    July 13, 2011
  • Blogs

    July 13, 2011

    Kurt Vile: The extended interview

    Photo by Shawn Brackbill ​BY IAN POWERIn the print edition of this week's City Pages, we have an interview with Matador signee and Philadelphia indie rocker Kurt Vile, who is coming to the Varsity Theater next Monday with Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth. What follows is the extended transcript of Ia ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2011

    Osama bin Laden is dead! A musical roundup

    ​Well, we don't have Osama bin Laden to kick around anymore, do we? Or at least, we don't have Osama bin Laden to have hover unseen and malevolent over our Threat Level Orange existences anymore, do we? Osama bin got gotten! I'm the first to make that joke. As always, with big news comes big s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2010

    Top 5 most underrated artists of 2010

    Can you hear us, mainstream audiences? It's us, Women.​In any given year, we are bombarded with so much new music that sometimes albums and artists that deserve a lot more attention somehow fall through the cracks, and don't quite get the careful consideration their work is entitled to. So, the ba ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 11, 2010

    Autolux

    Can you hear us, mainstream audiences? It's us, Women.​In any given year, we are bombarded with so much new music that sometimes albums and artists that deserve a lot more attention somehow fall through the cracks, and don't quite get the careful consideration their work is entitled to. So, the ba ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 9, 2009

    Teenage Strangler

    Can you hear us, mainstream audiences? It's us, Women.​In any given year, we are bombarded with so much new music that sometimes albums and artists that deserve a lot more attention somehow fall through the cracks, and don't quite get the careful consideration their work is entitled to. So, the ba ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 24, 2009

    Gimme News Weekly Wrap-Up: July 17-23

    Beyonce thrills at the Target Center, Mark Mallman releases new music video & next week's best new releases.

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2009

    July 23, 2009: Yo La Tengo & Sonic Youth

    Yo La Tengo & Noisettes schedule TC dates, Sonic Youth hits the Current and First Ave. & Jeff Hanson.

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2009

    Sonic Youth dote on the Eternal at First Avenue

    The band focused on their new material at a very sold-out show.

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2009

    Sonic Youth tonight at First Avenue

    Earplugs are for the weak-- the forefathers of noise rock came here to punish your head.

  • Calendar

    July 15, 2009

    Sonic Youth

    Earplugs are for the weak-- the forefathers of noise rock came here to punish your head.

  • Music

    July 15, 2009

    Beyoncé, Old 97's, Sonic Youth, and more

    Earplugs are for the weak-- the forefathers of noise rock came here to punish your head.

  • Music

    July 15, 2009

    Sonic Youth still reign as scholars of shoegaze

    Considering the band's work as uber-leftist liberal-arts cirriculum

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2009

    Sonic Youth to play First Avenue in July

    Hear ye, hear ye, if you're not deaf by now-- the godmothers and fathers of screechy noise rock will headline our Holiest of Holies on July 21.

  • Music

    November 12, 2008

    Deerhunter: Microcastle

    Hear ye, hear ye, if you're not deaf by now-- the godmothers and fathers of screechy noise rock will headline our Holiest of Holies on July 21.

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2008

    One trick-or-treater so far

    Hear ye, hear ye, if you're not deaf by now-- the godmothers and fathers of screechy noise rock will headline our Holiest of Holies on July 21.

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2008

    Sonic Youth and other movies: Sound Unseen

    Hear ye, hear ye, if you're not deaf by now-- the godmothers and fathers of screechy noise rock will headline our Holiest of Holies on July 21.

  • Movies

    October 22, 2008

    Film Highlight: Sound Unseen

    Hear ye, hear ye, if you're not deaf by now-- the godmothers and fathers of screechy noise rock will headline our Holiest of Holies on July 21.

  • Calendar

    August 20, 2008

    Company Inc.

    Hear ye, hear ye, if you're not deaf by now-- the godmothers and fathers of screechy noise rock will headline our Holiest of Holies on July 21.

  • Calendar

    May 21, 2008

    Company Inc.

    Hear ye, hear ye, if you're not deaf by now-- the godmothers and fathers of screechy noise rock will headline our Holiest of Holies on July 21.

  • Calendar

    February 6, 2008

    Daniel Johnston

    Hear ye, hear ye, if you're not deaf by now-- the godmothers and fathers of screechy noise rock will headline our Holiest of Holies on July 21.

  • Music

    November 28, 2007

    5ingles

    The songs we can't escape

  • Calendar

    October 10, 2007

    Spoon

    The songs we can't escape

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2007

    The Craig Finn Master Class

    The songs we can't escape

  • Music

    September 26, 2007

    5ingles

    The songs we can't escape

  • Unknown

    July 4, 2007
  • Blogs

    December 7, 2006

    City Planner: Thursday 12/07

    The songs we can't escape

  • Music

    November 15, 2006

    The Slats: Boom Patrol

    The songs we can't escape

  • Music

    June 14, 2006

    Sonic Youth: Rather Ripped

    The songs we can't escape

  • Music

    December 21, 2005

    A Record Named Goo

    Sonic Youth offer a gift idea for the no wave completist

  • Music

    October 20, 2004

    The Ex: Turn

    Sonic Youth offer a gift idea for the no wave completist

  • Music

    July 28, 2004

    Building Nothing out of Something

    Sonic Youth's new album: Another brick in the wall of sound

  • Music

    February 4, 2004

    Do You Hear What I See?

    Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo and friends answer the cinematic koan: What is the sound of a Stan Brakhage film?

  • Music

    December 24, 2003

    Old School

    Sweatin' to the local oldies with our favorite reissues

  • Arts

    October 1, 2003

    Bring the Noise

    The Destijl/Freedom From Festival of Music proves there's a world going on underground

  • Music

    February 19, 2003

    The Clean: Anthology

    The Destijl/Freedom From Festival of Music proves there's a world going on underground

  • Music

    November 6, 2002

    Lateduster: Lateduster, and Five Easy Pieces

    The Destijl/Freedom From Festival of Music proves there's a world going on underground

  • Music

    August 14, 2002

    Kill Your Idols

    Does Sonic Youth's new album justify calls for their termination?

  • Music

    December 6, 2000

    Libraness: Yesterday...and Tomorrow's Shells

    Does Sonic Youth's new album justify calls for their termination?

  • Arts

    October 4, 2000

    Rock around the doc

    U Film's "Sound Unseen" festival projects our mythologies of music onto the screen

  • Music

    June 7, 2000

    Talk Dirty to Me in Esperanto

    Sonic Youth and Stereolab redefine the intimate grammar of rock, again

  • Music

    January 12, 2000

    SY2K

    Sonic Youth's Goodbye 20th Century remembers the auld lang syne of the avant-garde

  • Music

    November 3, 1999

    Bringing Out the Dead

    Trail of Dead revive pure punk energy with Madonna

  • Arts

    September 9, 1998

    Bring in the Noise

    From Wrong's free-improv chaos to Savage Aural Hotbed's circle-saw precision, a disparate local noise scene maps the sound of modern anxiety

  • Music

    August 19, 1998

    Blonde Redhead: In an Expression of the Inexpressible

    From Wrong's free-improv chaos to Savage Aural Hotbed's circle-saw precision, a disparate local noise scene maps the sound of modern anxiety

  • Feature

    December 3, 1997

    MUSIC: Free Kitten

    From Wrong's free-improv chaos to Savage Aural Hotbed's circle-saw precision, a disparate local noise scene maps the sound of modern anxiety

  • Music

    November 12, 1997

    Sonic Youth: Slaapkamers Met Slagroom EP

    From Wrong's free-improv chaos to Savage Aural Hotbed's circle-saw precision, a disparate local noise scene maps the sound of modern anxiety

  • Music

    April 17, 1996

    Record Roundup

    From Wrong's free-improv chaos to Savage Aural Hotbed's circle-saw precision, a disparate local noise scene maps the sound of modern anxiety

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