The Youth appellation was always less apposite than the Sonic, but its still a surprise to find the 'Yoot still furtive as a unit after all these years. Surfacing from the racket-embracing, margin-hugging American milieu that brought forthBig Black,The ...more
The A.V. Club
Before the advent of SoundScan, online shopping, MTV's 120 Minutes, and the other factors in the alternification of American popular music, Sonic Youth existed mostly as a rumor, written about in music magazines available in places where the band's ...more
The Austin Chronicle
Sonic YouthCorporate Ghost DVD(Universal)Welcome to the sonic nursing home for eternal youth. It's not like any old folks home you'll find. The Youth's umpteenth Geffen LP after umpteen indie releases finds the NYC institution knocking on 50's door with ...more
CDreviews
Just to make sure everybodys on relatively the same page here, (no pun intended) Sonic Youth is the one band other than Radiohead who is often cited (by those who know what theyre talking about) to be the greatest rock and roll band still playing. ...more
Yahoo! Music
Picking up where Murray Street's languid experimentalism left off, Sonic Youth's somewhat awkwardly named Sonic Nurse shows that the band still sounds revitalized, and may have even tapped into a more fruitful creative streak than they did on their ...more
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