Sonic Youth

In the first part of the '90s, tribute albums were all the rage.

Since the announcement of Sonic Youth's indefinite hiatus and the personal split of the band's fronting married couple Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, the male half of indie-rock's biggest separation drama has kept quiet about the details of the 2013 breakup.

Domestic violence isn't the most glamorous subject for rock 'n' roll songs, but it is an important one. After all, music isn't just for entertainment. It has the ability to confront social stigmas and shed light on vital issues, and since October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, we decided to compile this inventory...

From the start, ‘Goo’ sounds different from other Sonic Youth records: It’s sharper, fuller and cleaner.

After several disappointing albums, 'Murray Street' was Sonic Youth's best effort in a long time.

Thurston Moore may have recently taken a beating for his alleged marital infidelities against longtime wife and Sonic Youth bandmate Kim Gordon, but nobody is questioning his status as an awesome rock dad. The singer-guitarist and his bassist bride welcomed their lone child, Coco Hayley Gordon Moore, back in '94, and the little one basically grew up on the road with her parents.

‘NYC Ghosts & Flowers,’ Sonic Youth’s 12th album, was shaped by several things. Since releasing their major-label debut 10 years before in 1990, the band had streamlined its sound, knocked it back around to its artsy/noisy origins and finally settled someplace in between. But they were getting antsy. But most of all, ‘NYC Ghosts & Flowers’’ brutal, abrasive sound was a result of the group’

By the time Sonic Youth released their 10th album on May 12, 1998, the honeymoon was over between the veteran NYC noise band, its deep-pocket record company, modern-rock radio and fans. After a brief fling with alt-rock radio at the start of the ‘90s – right after they signed with the same record company that would make Nirvana super-huge – the group began growing restless with their relative main

After all the buzz surrounding Sonic Youth when they released their landmark album ‘Daydream Nation’ in 1988, it was no surprise that they were soon scooped up by a major label. They made two pretty good but not quite spectacular albums for DGC (the same Geffen Records subsidiary that signed Sonic Youth pals Nirvana around the same time): 1990’s ‘Goo’ and 1992’s ‘Dirty.’ They even scored a pair of

We're not going to say "we told you so," because, well, we never went on the record to express our personal opinion on this subject, but privately, we had our sneaking suspicions that the breakup of Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon in late 2011 was caused by infidelity on the part of the former. Turns out we were right, and that a "starstruck woman" from the indie co