The Sonic Youth News

Photo of Theater District tagged "Bostonist" by Antydiluvian . Boston's worst live music venue, the Wilbur Theatre, on the left.

Even before there were festivals like All Tomorrow's Parties to formalize the concept, Sonic Youth have always given off a curatorial air.

Jed Gottlieb writes about music, film and pop culture for local, regional and national publications.

"You're lucky,'' says Sonic Youth guitarist-singer Thurston Moore , "because just a few weeks ago and for a long time, my iPod only consisted of underground black-metal recordings.'' But he's since mixed it up to include everything from early punk to seminal jazz.

What are your favorite alternative albums of the 2000s? 0 You may already be getting sick of reading the obligatory Top Albums of the Decade list that every music editor, blogger, and social networker has been ordered to shove down your throat.

As the majority of Chart magazine and subsequently CHARTattack readers know, we've covered every move by Sloan .

November 13, 2009, 6:46 AM / Pop anomaly Japan's Shonen Knife formed in 1981, and ever since, has been carrying the flag for underground indiepop with a punk aesthetic.

Several years ago Jim O'Rourke left Sonic Youth, moved to Japan and announced he was quitting music.

D.C. art-rockers The Chance get some heavy-duty support from friend Chris Grier at Black Cat's Backstage Monday night.

For the first recorded peep out of Jim Oa Rourke in years, wea re treated to The Visitor , an ornate, 38-minute mini-orchestral piece played entirely by Oa Rourke himself.

Sonic Youth have expanded their upcoming US tour. Starting later this month in New York , the band will play dates on the east coast, before hitting the road in January for the west coast section of their tour.

The term was a joke, tossed off by an indie record label employee who was being cute.

Ca est Halloween! EYE WEEKLY plans your pre-game party with our seasonal playlist, sure to tantalize, terrify and torment.

For a project that initially began as a home recording project, Fell, led by Josh Wambeke , has sure turned a lot of heads, from Camera Obscura label head Tony Daley, who stepped up to release the act's music virtually sight unseen, to the producers of the indie film The Purest Blue , who utilize the band's music in their movie, to his latest ...

For some reason, a bunch of people around here got their shit in a knot when Metric headlined over Sonic Youth at Virgin Fest this summer.

Ever since they opened for Sonic Youth back in 2004, you always had the feeling that Magik Markers were a band with big shoes to fill.

Sonic Youth are turning into The Ramones of experimental rock. Now in their 50s, apart from their drummer, who is a sprightly 47, the New Yorkers plough on without regard to fashion or the sniggers directed at their name.

This week's playlist features the return of gothic sonic terrorist Alex Empire, some "crunking techno bleeps" courtesy of Toddla T, and a "jet-black stream of hardcore insanity" from Gallows tour-buddies Trash Talk.

ORIGINALITY will take you further than talent or attitude, and New York pioneers Sonic Youth proved it.

Photographer Michael Lavine has collaborated with author Thurston Moore on their book a Grungea a an illustrated tell-all account of the life and death of the Grunge movement - which emerged in late - 1980s Seattle before taking over pop culture proper for the better half of the 1990s.