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Sonic Youth: Documentary and Dirty notes
Crept downstairs last night during an extended break from jurisprudence to watch 4Music’s Pioneers feature on Sonic Youth, which reassured me that my marked inability to evoke the sheer joy this band’s...
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Pitchfork 1, Sonic Youth 0
Ha. Pitchfork may poke fun at my favourite band a little too gleefully, and I really don’t think NYC Ghosts and Flowers was quite as dire as the 0.0 Brent DiCrescenzo gave it, but at least they’re...
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Dirty Drooling
This review of the re-release of Sonic Youth’s Dirty album got a lot of what I like about the album right. It also got my salivary glands into hyperdrive with its description of all the extra goodies...
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Teenage Hissyfit In A Public Station
The University of Pennsylvania has got Sonic Youth to headline its Spring Fling concert, with Cat Power opening, and get this – its students aren’t happy about it. “Who are they?” College freshman...
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Dorksylvania
An update on the Sonic Youth/Cat Power saga at U Penn I ranted about previously – the gig went ahead, apparently with an audience of about 300-400 people in a venue which could have housed 2000. What a...
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Sonic Nurse, Two Years Late
I was just about to SQUEEEEEEEEEE all over this blog about Sonic Youth’s new album, which I got my hands on yesterday, but suddenly remembered that my reaction to the previous album was still...
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Sonic Youth Snark Snippets
I haven’t bothered to read many reviews of The Destroyed Room, the new Sonic Youth rarities collection, because, well, good or bad reviews are fairly irrelevant to my need to own anything Sonic Youth,...
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Ecstatic Peace!
Naturally, every time I plan a trip to London, before I even bother checking plane flights I check the gig calendar to see what I can plan my trip around. This year’s check revealed that Thurston Moore...
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