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  • Quick Flicks: All Tomorrow's Parties- U2- Umphrey's McGee- Renaissance 12/01/2009
  • Punk Siren Jemina Pearl Unplugs for SPIN! 11/25/2009
  • Sonic Youth Bring Punk Vibe to Boston 11/23/2009
  • Thurston Moore and Rufus Wainwright Contribute Works to Art Show 11/06/2009
  • Motion City Soundtrack Release More New Album Details 11/04/2009
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    • Sonic Youth - NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 15: Musician Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth attends Rodarte Spring 2010 fashion show on September 15, 2009 in New York, New York.
    • Sonic Youth - NEW YORK - JUNE 09: Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth performs at the Apple Store Soho on June 9, 2009 in New York City.
    • Sonic Youth - NEW YORK - JUNE 09: Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth performs at the Apple Store Soho on June 9, 2009 in New York City.
    • Sonic Youth - NEW YORK - JUNE 09: Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth performs at the Apple Store Soho on June 9, 2009 in New York City.
    • Sonic Youth - NEW YORK - JUNE 09: Recording artist Kim Gordon (C) of the band Sonic Youth performs at the Apple Store Soho on June 9, 2009 in New York City.
    • Sonic Youth - NEW YORK - JUNE 09: Sonic Youth performs at the Apple Store Soho on June 9, 2009 in New York City.
    • Sonic Youth - NEW YORK - JUNE 09: Kim Gordon (L) and Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth perform at the Apple Store Soho on June 9, 2009 in New York City.
    • Sonic Youth - NEW YORK - JUNE 09: Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth performs at the Apple Store Soho on June 9, 2009 in New York City.
    • Sonic Youth - NEW YORK - JUNE 09: Kim Gordon (L) and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth perform at the Apple Store Soho on June 9, 2009 in New York City.
    • Sonic Youth - NEW YORK - JUNE 09: Kim Gordon (L) and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth perform at the Apple Store Soho on June 9, 2009 in New York City.
    • Sonic Youth - NEW YORK - JUNE 09: Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth perform at the Apple Store Soho on June 9, 2009 in New York City.
    • Sonic Youth - NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 12: Guitarist Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth attends the "Fender Jazzmaster 50th Anniversary Concert" at the Knitting Factory on September 12, 2008 in New York City. (Photo of Sonic Youth attends the "Fender Jazzmaster 50th Anniversary Concert" at the Knitting Factory on September 12, 2008 in New York City.
    • Sonic Youth - LAS VEGAS - JUNE 16: Cast and crew from 'Sonic Youth: Sleeping Nights Awake' (L-R) Ben Kolton, Ryan Bartlett, Heather Fuss, director Michael Albright, Nathan Lower, Noah Conrath and Charlie Hayes pose arrive at the "Sonic Youth: Sleeping Nights Awake" screening during the 2008 CineVegas film festival held at the Palms Casino Resort on June 16, 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
    • Sonic Youth - NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 08: Designer Marc Jacobs and musician Kim Gordon from Sonic Youth hug on the runway at the Marc Jacobs Fall 2008 fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2008 at the New York State Armory on February 8, 2008 in New York City.
    • Sonic Youth - US band Sonic Youth's guitarist Thurston Moore performs on stage 29 June 2007 during the Open'er festival in Gdynia, Poland
    • Sonic Youth - Fans celebrate as they view the US band Sonic Youth performing at the Gdynia Heineken Open'er Festival, one of the biggest European rock festival, here, 29 June 2007
    • Sonic Youth - A musician of the US rock band Sonic Youth performs at the Gdynia Heineken Open'er Festival, one of the biggest European rock festival, here, 29 June 2007
    • Sonic Youth - Thurston Moore, singer and guitarist of the US band "Sonic Youth", performs during the Hurricane Festival in Scheessel, northern Germany, 24 June 2007. More than 60,000 visitors came to see the three-day music event running from 22 to 24 June 2007
    • Sonic Youth - Thurston Moore, singer and guitarist of the US band "Sonic Youth", performs during the Hurricane Festival in Scheessel, northern Germany, 24 June 2007. More than 60,000 visitors came to see the three-day music event running from 22 to 24 June 2007
    • Sonic Youth - Members of the US band "Sonic Youth" perform during the Hurricane Festival in Scheessel, northern Germany, 24 June 2007. More than 60,000 visitors came to see the three-day music event running from 22 to 24 June 2007
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    Biography

    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
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