Sonic Youth
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ArtsBeat: Bail Offer for Roman Polanski Is Approved...a clutch of rising stars and a looming spring season with an astounding seven premieres and four commissioned scores. By NATE CHINEN Sonic Youth has dismantled and reassembled so many rock-band strategies over the years that it can begin to... In this article: Roman Polanski, United States, California, Le Figaro, Justice Department, and Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf |
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Michigan Live | 6 hours ago
3 issues facing the Michigan football team for 2010
...State and Iowa led the Big Ten in scoring and total defense this year and all are bound for Jan. 1 bowls. Defense wins in the Big Ten. Sonic youth: Two true freshmen started every game for Michigan in 2009, and several others played key...
In this article: Wolverines, Rich Rodriguez, Michigan, Big Ten, Ohio State, Vitamin D, and E mail
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Wired: Epicenter | 1 day ago
Apple Unveils 'Live Music' in iTunes
...exclusively through iTunes. iTunes Live Music (iTunes link) also lists Apple's more extensive live archive, including recordings by Sonic Youth, Regina Spektor, Pete Yorn, The Rapture, Kings of Leon, Gnarls Barkley, The New...
In this article: Itunes, Live Nation, Kings of Leon, 2006 Tour, DVD, Iphone, Ziggy Marley, Regina Spektor, Pete Yorn, and OK Go
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Boston Herald | 2 days ago
'Eternal' flame burns for Sonic Youth
Just In: No DUI charge for John Kerry's daughter 'Eternal' flame burns for Sonic Youth Monday, November 23, 2009 - Added 3m ago Sonic Youth and the Feelies sold out the Wilbur Theatre on Sunday. Over the course of the evening, 10...
In this article: The Feelies, The Eternal, Death Valley '69, Sunday, Shadow of a Doubt, Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, and Steve Shelley
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ChicagoNow | 5 days ago
Lincoln Park pubs on route of free Saturday night bus rides
...website for the Pitchfork-sponsored premiere of All Tomorrow's Parties, a documentary musical film featuring musical acts: Battles, Sonic Youth, Belle and Sebastian, Patti Smith, Animal Collective, Grinderman, Iggy and the Stooges,...
In this article: Lincoln Park, Double Decker, Sheffield, Pitchfork, Yelp, Flickr, Grinderman, and Grizzly Bear
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Chicago Tribune | 5 days ago
Shorts pack feature punch at Chicago Filmmakers
...Parties" is the DIY documentary about the sponsorship-free annual British music festival of the same name. Featuring performances by Sonic Youth, Patti Smith and The Yeah Yeah Yeahs (among others) in what LA Weekly calls "part concert...
In this article: New Moon, Black Christmas, Rock, LA Weekly, and Alice Cullen
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boston.com - Latest music news | 6 days ago
iPod Shuffle
THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING "You're lucky,'' says Sonic Youth guitarist-singer Thurston Moore, "because just a few weeks ago and for a long time, my iPod only consisted of underground black-metal recordings. '' But...
In this article: Thurston Moore, Alice Cooper, Columbia University in New York, Woolworth, and IPod
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washingtonpost.com | November 14, 2009
Full album concerts do little for us
...weird kind of relic. You expect them to go note-for-note, song-for-song through their nostalgia trip. But I think it's weird, Sonic Youth doing 'Daydream Nation.'" Tortoise performed its album "Millions Now Living Will Never Die"...
In this article: Pixies, Frank Black, Tortoise, Trouble Funk, The Beatles, Complete Discography, Minor Threat, Talking Heads, and Minnie Riperton
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washingtonpost.com | November 13, 2009
Sights and sounds from the Beijing underground
...told me.) My new favorite is Carsick Cars, a trio that's a perfect combination of the Clean and Sonic Youth. (Unfortunately the band is skipping D.C. on its brief U.S. tour.) P.K. 14, elder statesmen of the young Beijing scene who...
In this article: Beijing, Carsick Cars, Washington, D.C., and U.S.
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National Public Radio | November 13, 2009
Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore On Surviving The '00s
Interview: Thurston Moore Of Sonic Youth Thurston Moore is a musician who, aside from being in the legendary band Sonic Youth, has collaborated with everyone from Glenn Branca to Lydia Lunch to Mike Watt. Moore is also a writer, poet,...
In this article: Thurston Moore, Carrie Brownstein, Ecstatic Peace, Foam of the Daze, Iggy, DVD, EBay, and YouTube
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Independent.co.uk - Music | November 01, 2009
Sonic Youth, HMV Forum, London
Near the close of the show, a stool and an acoustic guitar were produced. Stool? Acoustic? This is Sonic Youth, right? I think the seating arrangement was ironic, while the acoustic guitar was used by Thurston Moore for a slow-burning...
In this article: Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, HMV, New York, Fascism, The Eternal, Death Valley '69, and National Front
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Sonic Youth is an American rock band formed in New York City in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore (vocals and guitar), Kim Gordon (vocals, bass, guitar), Lee Ranaldo (vocals and guitar), Mark Ibold (bass) and Steve Shelley (drums).
In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the No Wave art and music scene in New York City. Part of the first wave of American noise rock groups, the band carried out their interpretation of the hardcore punk ethos throughout the evolving American underground that focused more on the DIY ethic of the genre rather than its specific sound. As a result, Sonic Youth was pivotal in the rise of the alternative rock movement.
Sonic Youth have expressed a wide variety of influences, ranging from the influential protopunk musician Patti Smith to composer John Cage. The band has been praised for having "redefined what rock guitar could do", using a wide variety of unorthodox guitar tunings, and preparing guitars with objects like drumsticks and screwdrivers to alter the instruments' timbre.
- Name:
- Sonic Youth
- Origin:
- New York City, New York, USA
- Years Active:
- 1981–present
- Current members:
- Former Members:
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- Jim Sclavunos
- Anne DeMarinis
- Jim O'Rourke
- Bob Bert
- Richard Edson
- Associated With:
- Ciccone Youth
- Neil Young
- Free Kitten
- Mirror/Dash
- Genre:
- Art-punk
- Record Label:
- Neutral, Ecstatic Peace!, Zensor, Blast First, Homestead, SST, Enigma, DGC, SYR, Interscope, Matador
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