Sonic Youth have announced In/Out/In, an album of unreleased material from the 2000s, that will be out March 11 via Three Lobed Recordings. It’s five songs long, including “Social Static,” recorded by ...

Sonic Youth remain one of the most influential noise-rock bands of the past four decades. In late September 2025, the group ...

Sonic Youth have a new split-7″ with Glaswegian indie legends The Pastels featuring previously released covers of New York Dolls‘ songs. The Pastels’ cover of “Lonely Planet Boy” dates from 1987 and ...

The New York band were true trailblazers, but they just wanted to make some music. If Sonic Youth were still around, this year would be their 40th anniversary as a band. "We would have started in '81, ...

Instead of reuniting, Sonic Youth will release the rarities collection In/Out/In this spring. The pioneering alt-rock experimenters broke up in 2011 after the marital split of the band's principal duo ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Guitarists Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo and bassist Kim Gordon founded Sonic Youth in New York City in 1981, bringing ...

Given their history, it would be easy to assume that Sonic Youth decided to call their new album "Sonic Nurse" because it would allow them to use Richard Prince's pulp paperback nurse paintings for ...

It’s 25 years since Sonic Youth released Goo. Rock’s Backpages resurrects this interview, originally published in Sounds on 1 September 1990, where the band dismantle Madchester hype, brand Lou Reed ...

Beware small talk with Thurston Moore, the man who knows too much. When I meet the former Sonic Youth frontman for lunch in a noisy London restaurant, I politely ask how he’s finding life since he ...

After spending nearly 20 years delivering crunchy, underground guitar rock for a major label, Sonic Youth has returned to its indie roots for its 16th studio album, The Eternal. Out now on Matador ...