The Sonic Youth News

Several years ago Jim O'Rourke left Sonic Youth, moved to Japan and announced he was quitting music.

D.C. art-rockers The Chance get some heavy-duty support from friend Chris Grier at Black Cat's Backstage Monday night.

For the first recorded peep out of Jim Oa Rourke in years, wea re treated to The Visitor , an ornate, 38-minute mini-orchestral piece played entirely by Oa Rourke himself.

Sonic Youth have expanded their upcoming US tour. Starting later this month in New York , the band will play dates on the east coast, before hitting the road in January for the west coast section of their tour.

The term was a joke, tossed off by an indie record label employee who was being cute.

Ca est Halloween! EYE WEEKLY plans your pre-game party with our seasonal playlist, sure to tantalize, terrify and torment.

For a project that initially began as a home recording project, Fell, led by Josh Wambeke , has sure turned a lot of heads, from Camera Obscura label head Tony Daley, who stepped up to release the act's music virtually sight unseen, to the producers of the indie film The Purest Blue , who utilize the band's music in their movie, to his latest ...

For some reason, a bunch of people around here got their shit in a knot when Metric headlined over Sonic Youth at Virgin Fest this summer.

Ever since they opened for Sonic Youth back in 2004, you always had the feeling that Magik Markers were a band with big shoes to fill.

Sonic Youth are turning into The Ramones of experimental rock. Now in their 50s, apart from their drummer, who is a sprightly 47, the New Yorkers plough on without regard to fashion or the sniggers directed at their name.

This week's playlist features the return of gothic sonic terrorist Alex Empire, some "crunking techno bleeps" courtesy of Toddla T, and a "jet-black stream of hardcore insanity" from Gallows tour-buddies Trash Talk.

ORIGINALITY will take you further than talent or attitude, and New York pioneers Sonic Youth proved it.

Photographer Michael Lavine has collaborated with author Thurston Moore on their book a Grungea a an illustrated tell-all account of the life and death of the Grunge movement - which emerged in late - 1980s Seattle before taking over pop culture proper for the better half of the 1990s.

Sonic Youth slated the British National Party during a one-off UK show at the London Forum last night .

It's Tuesday and you're still eating turkey sandwiches. Welcome back to your work week with news about Michael Jackson vs.

AP reports that the lawsuit, filed Friday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, says the album "wasn't available in 'a substantial number' of Starbucks stores during the key early months following its release.

A new Melvins record. A monumental event from a band with a 25-year career that has seen them influence the likes of Nirvana and Mastodon, go through seven bass players and release 24 studio albums, three on a major label .

It never feels good being passed over. The sense that intentions were unappreciated and achievements are undervalued is often enough to make most people pack up and go home.

For acts of sufficient vintage and appropriate career trajectory, performing entire albums live has become something of a statement.

Videogum has the clip--Kim Gordon is apparently available to officiate your wedding.