Sonic Youth have announced In/Out/In, an album of unreleased material from the 2000s, that will be out March 11 via Three Lobed Recordings. It’s five songs long, including “Social Static,” recorded by ...

Sonic Youth eventually landed on a distinct, groundbreaking sound that ended up typifying most of their music, but they didn't find that sound immediately. Their self-titled 1982 debut -- released on ...

Hear the Replacements (on Big Star), Sonic Youth (on Karen Carpenter), Stevie Wonder (on Duke Ellington) and more. In honor of a gem from Alex G, listen to tracks from Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Modest Mouse, ...

For the second year running, mom and pop indie music venues willmark Record Store Day, April 18, by offering musical incentives to get buyers through their doors. Indie record label Matador is ...

Sonic Youth have announced a new reissue of Walls Have Ears, their 2xLP live album that was recorded in 1985 and bootlegged the next year. This is the first time it will be released with the band’s ...

This past November marked the 10th anniversary of Sonic Youth’s farewell show, just after Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore announced their own split. Yet for those who still follow the band, it’s almost ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Guitarists Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo and bassist Kim Gordon founded Sonic Youth in New York City in 1981, bringing ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Sonic Youth Go Through the Motions, SpectacularlySonic Youth’s epochal 1988 album, Daydream Nation, is revered by many as the very definition of indie rock, so it was surprising that its creators ...

Hear her latest work and enduring classics from Sonic Youth and beyond. By Lindsay Zoladz Recently, I had the honor of interviewing Kim Gordon, the legendary co-founder of the now-defunct alt-rock ...

After spending last fall and early 2006 in the studio with John Agnello (Dinosaur Jr., Son Volt), New York’s favorite avant-garde rockers Sonic Youth are now mixing the follow-up to 2004’s Sonic Nurse ...

Kim Gordon has been a rock star for more than 40 years. As a member of Sonic Youth, the stylish and enigmatic Gordon became a standard of indie cool as the band rose from noisy ‘80s underground ...