Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon Teams Up With French Fashion Brand Surface to Air 02/13/2012

Freshkills Get 'Deeply Nihilistic' on 'Positive Vibes' -- Song Premiere 02/03/2012

1956 - Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Renaldo is born in Gl... 02/02/2012

R.I.P. Artist Mike Kelley 02/01/2012

Zooey Deschanel to Appear on M. Ward's Solo Album 01/26/2012

Sonic Youth were one of the most unlikely success stories of underground American rock in the '80s. Where contemporaries R.E.M. and Hüsker Dü were fairly conventional in terms of song structure and melody, Sonic Youth began their career by abandoning any pretense of traditional rock & roll conventions. Borrowing heavily from the free-form noise experimentalism of the Velvet Underground and the ...more