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Kim Gordon and Kurt Cobain
"I still have very vivid images of him laughing, smiling, and goofing around": Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon remembers Nirvana's Kurt Cobain

By Paul Brannigan Published

Kim Gordon remembers her friend Kurt Cobain, as the 30th anniversary of his death nears

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Kim Gordon
"Mascara, lip mask, eye mask, ear plugs, travel shampoo, conditioner": Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon to release new solo album The Collective, shares disorienting new track Bye Bye

By Liz Scarlett Published

Sonic Youth vocalist/guitarist Kim Gordon announces the arrival of her second solo album, The Collective, shares opener Bye Bye featuring some rather bizarre lyrics

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Thurston Moore and Kurt Cobain
"We had an A&R person at Geffen saying, 'You guys can be the Pink Floyd of the underground.' I was, like, No, we can’t." Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore remembers Nirvana and 'The Year That Punk Broke'

By Paul Brannigan Published

Thurston Moore: "When I was putting this book together my agent basically said, Give me your Kurt chapter"

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Thurston Moore
"The feeling that chaos was about to erupt was palpable": Thurston Moore's memoir Sonic Life is a fascinating insider account of life-changing outsider art, and one music geek's insatiable lust for the loud

By Paul Brannigan Published

Sonic Youth's co-founder, vocalist and guitarist Thurston Moore shares an epic personal odyssey into life on the left-of-the-dial, featuring cameos from Madonna, William Burroughs, Nirvana and more

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Sonic Youth essential albums
A beginner's guide to Sonic Youth in five essential albums

By Stephen Hill Published

Where to start with New York's most influential 'underground' guitar band since The Velvet Underground

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Dirty at 30: how Sonic Youth became the world's most reluctant rock stars

By Stephen Hill Last updated

Released on July 21, 1992, Sonic Youth's brilliant seventh album Dirty saw the US underground rock icons briefly align with the mainstream

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Sonic Youth’s pivotal role in the ’90’s alternative rock explosion to be detailed in new Thurston Moore memoir

By Louder Last updated

Thurston Moore’s memoir Sonic Life will be published by Faber & Faber in 2023

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Judgment Night: OST
Judgment Night OST: the story of the greatest rap-rock soundtrack album of the 90s

By Stephen Hill Published

The Judgment Night movie may have flopped, but its soundtrack was a game-changer for rap and rock colliding

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Sonic Youth rarities compilation In/Out/In coming in March, hear In & Out now

By Paul Brannigan Published

Five previously unreleased tracks from alt. rock trailblazers Sonic Youth to be collated on new compilation In/Out/In

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inflatable Sonic the hedgehog in New York
The Rise and Fall of Sonic The Hedgehog

By Danielle Partis Published

The hottest thing in gaming was once a spikey-haired blue hedgehog. 25 years on, he's a broken wreck, whored around franchise after franchise. What really happened to Sonic the Hedgehog?

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