She started her musical career at age 18 in the distortion-heavy band Eric's Trip (named for a Sonic Youth song), and in the dozen years since she began to put out solo records, she's found ways to use instrumentation to explore the frayed edges of heartache and longing.
By the '90s, Sonic Youth had become a fixture of college radio stations and achieved cult status with legions of other bands emulating their sound.
Though it began as more of an experiment in guitar noise and feedback than a rock band, Sonic Youth has cemented its legacy as one of the most important acts of its era, influencing countless performers both directly and indirectly.
Alma is a Mason Gross student, one of those Sonic Youth, comic-book-reading alternatinas without whom you might never have lost your virginity.
In 2005, the abandoned pool was reinvented as a performing venue, attracting popular bands such as Sonic Youth and the Beastie Boys.
He said bands such as Sonic Youth had created benchmarks for success in that culture: a few hundred thousand units sold, airplay on MTV's 120 Minutes and headlining their own tour.
So a generation raised on the dissonance and refusenik ways of bands like Sonic Youth gave way to the campfire kids.
Already a critical and cult favorite in the U.K., Be Your Own Pet hopes to reach a wider U.S. audience as the opening act for Sonic Youth s current tour.
Nirvana had just finished a two-week tour of Europe, opening for the underground trailblazers Sonic Youth.
Before one Sonic Youth tour in the mid-'80s, we decided to get a cassette player for the van.
During the interview, Moore freely discussed the democratic process of composing the album, the initial strangeness of performing Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation twenty years later at festivals, and how he's evolved as a musician.
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