Sonic Youth
Track: Kim Gordon Drops ‘Psychedelic Orgasm’ announces live dates
Kim Gordon’s ‘Psychedelic Orgasm’ is pure Sonic Euphoria
Track: Kim Gordon’s New Single, ‘I’m A Man’ Challenges Traditional Masculinity with Her Signature Sonic Bite
Kim Gordon’s ‘I’m A Man’ is a whirlwind of raw energy and distorted soundscapes
News: Kim Gordon announces second solo album & drops new video
Kim Gordon returns with her second solo album, The Collective, which will be released March 8th. Its lead track, ‘BYE BYE,’ is out now.
Album Review: Sonic Youth – Battery Park, NYC July 4th 2008
It may not be a new release, but Sonic Youth’s show at Battery Park, NYC on July 4th 2008 is out now commercially and is a document of a band at their very height of its power. At one point, when trying to work out who starts one of the tracks, Thurston Moore echoes Lee …
Track: Sonic Youth – Bull in the Heather, plus Battery Park NYC: July 4 2008 reissue news
Matador records have announced they are releasing Sonic Youth’s live album Battery Park NYC: July 4 2008 on June 7th. Initially sold as a bonus alongside the bands final album – The Eternal, this new version will be available on streaming services and as a stand-alone package for the first time ever. Taken from a …
News, Sonic Youth 180g vinyl reissues
USM are embarking on a re-issue programme of some of Sonic Youth’s key albums as part of its ‘Back to Black’ series, all to be available for the first time on 180g vinyl, and with high quality downloads. First up, later this this month, (January 22nd) are ‘Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star’, ‘A …
Album Review: Thurston Moore – The Best Day
So if we were keeping score(which I am), then Kim Gordon was whipping Thurston Moore in regards to the quality of post-breakup records. Her Body/Head album from last year was miles ahead of Moore’s mediocre Chelsea Light Moving album that came out last year as well. She made an album that was just as much …
From an old record box: Cud – Robinson Crusoe
This was an early glory of my burgeoning (or so I thought) record collection and indie cred. They’d been in Peel’s Festive Fifty the year before (I looked that up this morning – back then I had no idea that Peel’s Festive Fifty existed let alone who Sonic Youth or The Fall were) with “Only …