Sonic Youth

”Sonic Life tells the story of my childhood and teenage years as I fell in love with music (for the most part unbridled rock ’n’ roll) and how it drove me to New York City, where I would co-found Sonic Youth.”

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

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 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.

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

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

“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.”

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

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...