Sonic Youth's radical use of dissonance and alternate tunings seemed revolutionary at the time.
Nirvana had just finished a two-week tour of Europe, opening for the underground trailblazers Sonic Youth.
In 1988, Sonic Youth recorded three reverent covers of Fall songs for the BBC.
Sonic Youth came out of the New York no wave scene of the late '70s and early '80s.
Before one Sonic Youth tour in the mid-'80s, we decided to get a cassette player for the van.
Sonic Youth's latest album, Rather Ripped features shorter, more conventionally structured and melodic songs with less guitar-based, improvised noise.
So a generation raised on the dissonance and refusenik ways of bands like Sonic Youth gave way to the campfire kids.
Alma is a Mason Gross student, one of those Sonic Youth, comic-book-reading alternatinas without whom you might never have lost your virginity.
After several line-up and label changes, Sonic Youth entered the 21st century with Chicago producer and musician Jim O'Rourke joining the group.
In 2005, the abandoned pool was reinvented as a performing venue, attracting popular bands such as Sonic Youth and the Beastie Boys.
Sonic Youth continued to refine its use of noise in an increasingly pop-driven songwriting context, greatly expanding its commercial success in the '90s.
In concert, the full band can roar like Sonic Youth, whisper like Elliott Smith and work the crowd like Lil Wayne.
John Lennon's widow will also perform with the Plastic Ono Band, while other acts include Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon, Boy George and comedian Reggie Watts.
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.
It's like trying to convince him to listen to Sonic Youth.
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When the members of what was to become Sonic Youth first began playing together in 1981, the critical and commercial success they would achieve was unimaginable.
Then, at college, he sold his recordings of Arnold Bax's symphonies to buy Pere Ubu and Sonic Youth, and hung out at punk clubs in Berkeley.
In 2005, O'Rourke left the band and Sonic Youth continued with its mostly original lineup, featuring Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, and Lee Ranaldo with drummer Steve Shelley.
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.
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.
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.
When guitarists Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo formed Sonic Youth with bassist Kim Gordon and drummer Richard Edson in 1981, they could never have imagined the band would go on to inspire and influence a generation of other artists.
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.
On the new Rather Ripped, Sonic Youth has crafted arguably its tightest and most refined set of songs: Reining in the jammy tendencies of its recent predecessors, the album is more song-oriented, with comparatively little in the way of the noisy experimentalism that characterized the band's early work.
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.
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