““I wanted deliverance, the loss of myself. The capacity to be inside [the] music,” writes Kim Gordon in her memoir, Girl in a Band. The Sonic Youth bassist and vocalist continues, “[it’s] the same power and sensation you feel when a wave takes you up and pushes you somewhere else.” While Sonic Youth’s studio albums come close to capturing the purifying force of their musical brutality, it’s their”
“This storied 1986 live bootleg captured the band on the cusp between New York Noise act and alt-rock behemoth. Thirty-eight years later, it finally gets an official release.”
