Sonic Youth

Tour news: Weyes Blood, Vagabon, Rhett Miller, Red Baraat, Soulfly, City of Caterpillar, more

Plus: Kississippi, The Wonder Years, Primavera Sound, Def Leppard & Mötley Crüe, Lee Ranaldo, Jess Williamson, Molly Lewis and more tour and festival news.

Liam Gallagher and Aquarius Records documentaries screening at Nitehawk's 'Music Driven' series

Part of Nitehawk‘s BrooklynVegan presented Music Driven series, ‘It Came From Aquarius Records‘ and ‘Liam Gallagher: Knebworth 22‘ both screen in November.

Kid Congo preps memoir, new Wolfmanhattan Project album & more

Kid Congo Powers (The Cramps, The Gun Club, The Bad Seeds) has two new albums and a memoir out this month, and he’ll be on tour too.

Pitchfork publishes a new 150 Best Albums of the 1990s list

Having originally published a best albums of the 1990s list in 2003, Pitchfork just put up a new version, and there are some changes…

Medicine Singers joined by Lee Ranaldo, Thor Harris, Laraaji, more at Brooklyn show this weekend

Medicine Singers, the collaboration between Native American powwow group Eastern Medicine Singers and Monotonix‘s Yonatan Gat, will perform as a special 10-piece band lineup…

It's Band Shirt Day with Sonic Youth, King Gizzard, Angel Olsen & more donating t-shirt sales to charity

Also participating in Band Shirt Day: Blondie, Flipper, Sleater-Kinney, Tori Amos, OFF!, Parquet Courts and many more

Listen to Middle Eastern psych-rock band Al-Qasar's debut album ft Lee Ranaldo & Jello Biafra

“I wanted to start a project that was in tune with the daily life of people living in these international cities,“ says bandleader Thomas Attar Bellier. “Something diverse, radically colourful, with a fresh, contemporary outlook on what societies really look like today.”

Can's Malcolm Mooney played Union Pool backed by members of Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo, more (setlist, video)

Backed by an all-star band, Malcolm Mooney performed all of Can‘s ’Monster Movie‘ and more as part of Union Pool‘s free Summer Thunder series

Watch a playlist of every video MTV's '120 Minutes' showed

The playlist features 2512 music videos that aired on MTV’s alternative music show ‘120 Minutes‘ from 1986 – 2000, including The Smiths, Depeche Mode, Pixies, Smashing Pumpkins, Oasis and many more…

Watch Sonic Youth's rare, puppet-filled "Drunken Butterfly" video

The video featuring sock puppet versions of Thurston, Kim, Lee and Steve was the winning entry in a contest held by MTV‘s 120 Minutes surrounding the release of ‘Dirty‘ (which just turned 30).
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