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Sonic Youth were formed in New York City in 1981 by core members Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon and Lee Ranaldo over a shared passion for rock music. The band were praised for their pioneering service to ...

An adaptation of David Keenan’s novel about a Scottish band who nearly supported Sonic Youth is lovingly detailed A few years ago, the director Stewart Laing invented a character called Paul Bright.

The two musical collaborators discuss their tribute to Brian Wilson, the best kinds of nostalgia, and their respective love for Sonic Youth and disco.

All of Homer’s alienation was my experience of feeling like a loser there.” Sonic Youth’s rendition of ‘The Simpsons Theme’, originally composed by Danny Elfman, is an appropriately scuzzy affair.

To do something completely unique is incredibly rare, but throughout nearly 70 years of electric guitar music, you would be hard-pressed to find anyone else who sounds like Thurston Moore. Pulling ...

With several albums and a decade’s worth of experimental music behind them, Sonic Youth hijacked the grunge mainstream with ‘Dirty.’ ...

By the time Sonic Youth released their classic seventh album Dirty in 1992, they were mature and wise operators. Ove a decade into their career, the band had experimented with all manner of approaches ...

Sonic Youth released Dirty, its seventh full-length album (and a double album at that). At the top of their game in the ...

The former Sonic Youth frontman tells IndieWire about the joys of pushing the HBO show’s score as far into the avant garde as he wanted.

So it’s only fitting that the series’ score, composed by guitarist and former Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore, feels a little hard to nail down. Sometimes pounding like a tension headache ...

So it’s only fitting that the series’ score, composed by guitarist and former Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore, feels a little hard to nail down. Sometimes pounding like a tension headache ...