“Meet Jeremy. Jeremy likes Sonic Youth. His favorite album by the Youth is *Goodbye 20th Century*, their self-released cover album of avant-garde works by various modern classical composers. The CDs currently in his five-disc changer are Shalabi's *St-Orange*, Xiu Xiu, Merzbow, the Boredoms, and Fennesz. Meet Erica. Erica likes Sonic Youth. Her favorite album by the Youth is *Dirty*, the band's mo”
“How do you respond to unnatural disaster? That question is a prime motivator for Sonic Youth. In the Eighties the band rose from punk and postmodernism to survey the battered beauty of late-century civilization, gravitating toward such subjects as teen angst and serial killers, artfully jacking in to the world’s confusion. Most of all, Sonic […]”
