Sonic Youth

Music to some ears: how 20th-century classical music led to pop

30 August 2025 4:00 am

You can easily draw a line from John Cage to Sonic Youth – but Elizabeth Aker’s book does not really tell you how

Thurston Moore relives the early days of Sonic Youth

21 October 2023 9:00 am

Reminiscing about his many friends and colleagues in the 1970s, Moore even finds good things to say about the Dead Boys and Sid Vicious

Sonic Youth in happier days in 2003. Left to right: Lee Ranaldo, Jim O’Rourke, Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore and Steve Shelley

While the wound was still raw

28 February 2015 9:00 am

For 30 years Kim Gordon was one half of a cool couple in a cool band. With her husband Thurston…