Poster This – SONIC YOUTH 1987
Great concert posters from the past
SONIC YOUTH
Cave Club, Red River, Austin TX
21 September 1987
The good old Sonic Youth days
SONIC YOUTH: Bio – Discography
Sonic Youth
SONIC YOUTH – 12th LP ‘MURRAY ST.’ Celebrates Its 20th Birthday Today
Back in time
25 June 2022
Band: SONIC YOUTH
Active: 1981–2011 / 15 studio LPs
Anniversary album: MURRAY ST.
Released: 25 June 2002 – 20 years ago today
AllMusic said: “Murray Street reaffirms that at the group’s best, Sonic
Youth manages to sound fresh and timeless all at once.” Score: 4/5.
TUTV: SY doing what they did best. Blowing your mind with their electrical havoc.
My fav tracks: Karen Revisited / Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style
Stream album on Spotify
SONIC YOUTH: Story
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Happy B. To KIM GORDON
A year older
28 April 2022
KIM ALTHEA GORDON was born 68 years ago in Rochester, New York.
Widely know for being a prominent member, along with her ex-husband
Thurston Moore of prodigious noise-addicts Sonic Youth (1981–2011 / 15 LPs).
After the band’s split the blonde heroine played with several short-lived groups
(Free Kitten, Body/Head, Glitterbust) before canning her first ace solo album No Home Record three years ago. It was Turn Up The Volume‘s numero uno longplayer of 2019.
Three great Kim moments to celebrate her birthday…
– KOOL THING –
(Sonic Youth, 1990)
– AIR BNB –
(From solo album, ace live version)
– JAMS RUNS FREE –
(Sonic Youth, 2006)
KIM GORDON: Facebook – Spotify
(Image on top: cover of her 2021 single ‘Grassing Jeans’)
SONIC YOUTH Donate All Proceeds Of New Album ‘LIVE IN UKRAINE – 1989’ To Ukrainian War Victims
15 April 2022
Noise rock icons SONIC YOUTH are joining
the many artists who released (old/new) music
lately, in financial support of the Ukraine war
victims.
A few months before the Berlin Wall came down in 1989,
the Sonics toured across Lithuania, Russia, and Ukraine, all
part of the USSR at the time. they followed in the footsteps
of Western bands such as Nick Cave, Einsturzende Neubauten,
and Discharge who also played in those countries.
The Kyiv show in Ukraine on 14 April 1989 was
recorded and is now available on Bandcamp for
only 10 USD (or more).
The quality is not top, but good enough to buy and support
World Center Kitchen – #ChefsForUkraine.
Buy here…
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SONIC YOUTH: Story
Puzzling, Ominous And Chaotic – Five Previously Unheard SONIC YOUTH Jams From 2000-2010 Sessions
22 March 2022
Band: SONIC YOUTH
Who: Guitar noise legends with
Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore,
Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley
Active: 1981-2011 / 15 LPs
New EP: IN/OUT/IN
Release: 11 March 2022 – order info here
Three Lobed Recordings (the label) says: In mulling over their career, it’s staggering
to realize that Sonic Youth not only delivered a healthy slab of releases as a unit but also
have a myriad of shelved material still waiting for broader ears. “In/Out/In” ably delivers
a new slab of mostly-unheard Sonic righteousness, with a scope on the post 2000-era
band in specially zoned/exploratory regions.
Rolling Stone says: “In/Out/In feels less like a random collection of toss-offs and
more like a lost Sonic Youth album before everyone figured out who would sing
each track.” 4/5.
Turn Up The Volume: These five previously unreleased jams sound like… jams,
going everywhere and nowhere but they never leave your mind once you let them
in. These retrieved soundscapes, mostly instrumental, perplex and baffle. Especially
the 11-minute track 4 Social Static, a sort of Lou Reed’s Metal Music Machine escapade
and the 12-minute track 5 Out & In, a riff-Krautrock-roaring rattlesnake.
Ominous, chaotic, and mind-dazzling.
Enter Sonic Youth territory here…
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SONIC YOUTH: Story – All Albums
(Group image: cover of their 1982 debut EP)
Coming Soon… 5 Previously Unreleased Tracks By Legends SONIC YOUTH
28 February 2022
Band: SONIC YOUTH
Who: Guitar noise legends with
Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore,
Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley
Active: 1981-2011 / 15 LPs
New EP: IN/OUT/IN
Release: 11 March 2022 – order info here
Three Lobed Recordings label says: In mulling over their career, it’s staggering to realize that Sonic Youth not only delivered a healthy slab of releases as a unit but also have a myriad of shelved material still waiting for broader ears. While the group’s current Bandcamp abode lays out a generous amount of it, a bunch more has yet to surface. And it’s a massive mountain to chip away at in the sense of the group output alone; individual members’ projects are a whole other game, needless to say. “In/Out/In” ably delivers a new slab of mostly-unheard Sonic righteousness, with a scope on the post 2000-era band in specially zoned/exploratory regions.
Here’s taster IN & OUT. A ghostly trance-like jam, stirring and spooky, with Kim Gordon wailing all over it and Thurston Moore letting his guitar do the psychedelic talking. Great find.
Press play…
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SONIC YOUTH: Facebook
Quote Of The Day – THURSTON MOORE About The Late MARK E. SMITH
Former Sonic Youth hero about The Fall hero Mark E. Smith who
said, once upon a time, that Moore‘s rock license should be revoked…
SONIC YOUTH – Masterwork Album ‘DAYDREAM NATION’ Released 30 Years Ago…
Going back in sonic history looking for memorable albums…
17 October 2018
Band: SONIC YOUTH
Album: DAYDREAM NATION – their fifth LP (a double one)
Released: 18 October 1988 – 30 years ago
ALL MUSIC review: “Sonic Youth made a major step forward with 1987’s Sister, their first album where the songs were as strong as the group’s visionary approach and they rocked
with the force and authority they’d clearly sought since the beginning. If 1988’s Daydream Nation didn’t make as decisive a leap in terms of theory or style, as far as execution was concerned, it was Sonic Youth’s first unqualified masterpiece, a triumph that made them one
of the most respected bands in indie rock. Initially released as a two-LP set, the sheer scope of ‘Daydream Nation’ was ambitious, but the longer tracks worked to Sonic Youth’s advantage, allowing them the space to lay down solid melodic structures and then use them as a framework for extended jams…” – Full review here – Score: 5/5
TURN UP THE VOLUME! says: Sonic Youth redefined noise rock combining experimental melodiousness and adventurous jamming perfectly and turning it into mind-expanding commotion. This blustery double album capitulated them in the supreme regions of alternative music.
Top Tracks: the whole album is a totally towering experience,
not a collection of songs…
ALBUM in full…
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SONIC YOUTH: Facebook – Website – All Albums
SONIC YOUTH – Released 10th LP ‘A THOUSAND LEAVES’ 20 Years Ago…
Going back in sonic history looking for memorable albums…
11 May 2018
Band: SONIC YOUTH
Album: A THOUSAND LEAVES
Released: 12 May 1998 – 20 years ago
ALL MUSIC wrote: ” ‘A Thousand Leaves’, the band’s most challenging and satisfying record
in years. The blasts of dissonance that characterized their SST masterworks have been replaced, by and large, by winding, intricate improvisations. There’s a surprising warmth to the subdued guitars of Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, and Kim Gordon, which keeps the lengthy songs captivating.” Score: 8/10 – Full review here
TURN UP THE VOLUME‘s Top Track: Magnetic jam, hypnotic groove… here’s SUNDAY
Album in full…
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SONIC YOUTH: Facebook – Website – All Albums
TODAY’S YESTERDAY ALBUM – ‘Dirty’ by SONIC YOUTH…
Great longplayers from the past…
‘Dirty’
SONIC YOUTH
Release: 21 July 1992
Eight LP
ROLLING Stone wrote: “The Youth were early, enthusiastic supporters of Nirvana and of the whole Seattle-centered guitar-grunge scene, so it’s not surprising to find the band working with producer Butch Vig and mixer Andy Wallace of Nevermind fame on Dirty. It’s the first time the band has used an outside producer, and it works, giving this eighth SY album added richness, clarity, punch and amp-static snarl as needed. It’s more focused and harder hitting than Goo (1990). Throughout, there’s a palpably genuine group chemistry at work — warped, gonzo, righteous and loud.”
Album in full…
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SONIC YOUTH: Facebook – Discography
Noise legends…
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