A) the Sonic Youth co-founder has launched a Substack, and B) his first post is a list of the “350 Best Records of 2025.” ...

Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo will be among the highlighted performers of a new winter festival slated Feb. 16-22.

Before then, Sonic Youth had spent most of their career as heroes of New York City's underground scene. Earlier albums had often been like their shows: thrillingly experimental, deeply challenging, ...

There cannot be many more influential and revered bands in the history of underground guitar music than New York collective Sonic Youth. From their formation in 1981, through to their disbandment 30 ...

The American rock group Sonic Youth have been making music together since 1981. They have been a mainstay in “alternative rock” ever since, and their influence can be felt in the work of countless ...

Sonic Youth have launched an official Reverb shop, and they’re selling analog tape that they stocked up in the early 2000s when digital recording began taking over. A press release clarifies that ...

Call: TicketsWest outlets (509-325-SEAT, 800-325-SEAT, www.ticketswest.com). The fact that Sonic Youth spent the last 20 years on a major label – considering its breadth of work – is truly commendable ...

Guitarists Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo and bassist Kim Gordon founded Sonic Youth in New York City in 1981, bringing Michigan-born drummer Steve Shelley on board to fill out the classic lineup in ...

The New York band were true trailblazers, but they just wanted to make some music. If Sonic Youth were still around, this year would be their 40th anniversary as a band. "We would have started in '81, ...

Having made an unearthly racket for the past 30 years, East Village ambassadors Sonic Youth return to the Bay Area next week with a back catalog of songs that predicted new wave, indie, grunge, nu ...

Sonic Youth are selling an array of guitars, records and other memorabilia to mark the 30th anniversary of their seminal 1988 record, Daydream Nation. The gear sale starts October 30th on Reverb, ...

A quarter century after the group first formed in New York, Sonic Youth remains one of rock's more inspired, creative bands. Now on tour for their 20th album, Rather Ripped, the trio visits Washington ...