The Sonic Youth News

Terminally-ill author IAIN BANKS has treated himself to a luxury sports car so he can indulge his love of driving in the Scottish Highlands.

Rocker THURSTON MOORE is open to reuniting SONIC YOUTH if he can rebuild the "trust" with his estranged wife KIM GORDON.

Newlywed rocker JAMES RIGHTON is adamant his high-profile marriage to Hollywood A-lister KEIRA KNIGHTLEY will never distract from his career in music.

The avant garde noise rock band and Do-It-Yourself pioneer Sonic Youth is better known for getting talked about by famous musicians than for the number of albums it sold.

Die Kreuzen should have been one of the handful of Milwaukee-area bands like the Violent Femmes and the BoDeans that made it in a big way.

Dan Hegarty takes a look at the career of American musician Beck tonight on The Alternative, while Irish exploring success is celebrated on Today with Pat Kenny.

Thurston Moore has been part of the New York music scene for three decades, and he's still going, proving to be a rare example of lasting independence in the music industry.

Ever since he and his wife and Sonic Youth bandmate Kim Gordon announced their split in late 2011, Thurston Moore has kept his mouth largely shut.

The advance publicity for the fourth official solo album by Sonic Youth member/author/art damaged polymath Thurston Moore offered a challenge: You may think you know where a Thurston record does or does not factor into your world Point taken.

MUSIC : California Guitar Trio @ Caffe Lena , Saratoga Springs. The unique threesome of guitar wizards - Bert Lams from Belgium, Hideyo Moriya from Japan and Paul Richards from Utah - delivers an evening of fretboard fireworks in support of their latest album, Andromeda .

The most recent episode of XPN's Indie Rock Hit Parade was a clearinghouse of sorts.

Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth recently told Elle that her long partnership with Thurston Moore ended "in a kind of normal way midlife crisis, starstruck woman." The woman in question, as it turns out, is 34, and the midlife crisis his, naturally.

DAFT PUNK have broken previous records on music-sharing service Spotify after fans flocked to listen to their new track.

Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon turns 60 today. I admire Kim Gordon for many reasons. First and foremost is the brilliance of the music she created with Sonic Youth, especially the improbable fact that they continued to make great music for three decades .

We've been in awe of Kim Gordon 's style ever since we were angst-ridden teenagers pasting Sonic Youth posters on our walls.