Insound Staff Pick - 2008! By refining the song-oriented breakthroughs of "Sister" and developing their fascination with noise and alternate tunings, Sonic Youth created a masterpiece of post-punk art-rock with the double album "Daydream Nation." Though the self-conscious sprawl of the album might appear self-indulgent on the surface, "Daydream Nation" is powered by a sustained vision, one that encapsulates all of the group's quirks and strengths. Alternating between tense, hypnotic instrumental pass   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Insound Staff Pick - 2008! Hailed by Rolling Stone as one of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All-Time" and honored as one of the first 200 albums chosen by the Library of Congress to be included in the National Recording Registry for their historic, cultural or aesthetic importance, Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation will be issued in a two-disc Deluxe Edition with bonus tracks, new liner notes, and unseen band photos on June 12, 2007. Daydream Nation was Sonic Youth's sixth albu   [ read more ]

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2005 had Sonic Youth revisiting awesome Japan, touring the boroughs of New York, rollicking at the first Arthurfest in L.A., and releasing the special deluxe edition of GOO. After one final gnarl out in Brazil with Flaming Lips, The Stooges and others Mr. Jim O'Rourke decided to concentrate full-time on his Japanese studies of language and film and SY was subsequently back to it's OG nucleus of Kim-Thurston-Lee-Steve. Songs were written, Jim recommended engineer TJ Doherty and J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr) recomm   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. 2005 had Sonic Youth revisiting awesome Japan, touring the boroughs of New York, rollicking at the first Arthurfest in L.A., and releasing the special deluxe edition of GOO. After one final gnarl out in Brazil with Flaming Lips, The Stooges and others Mr. Jim O'Rourke decided to concentrate full-time on his Japanese studies of language and film and SY was subsequently back to it's OG nucleus of Kim-Thurston-Lee-Steve. Songs were written, Jim recommended engineer TJ Doherty and J Mascis (Dinos   [ read more ]

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Insound Staff Pick - 2008! After a solid twenty-three years of explosive creativity Sonic Youth throws down what may be their heaviest classic since their own genre-breaking "Daydream Nation" in 1988. "Sonic Nurse" is the nineteenth long player by the New York City supernova, together since 1981. Ten songs of American beauty and sonic death with wild and colorful cover art by renowned artist Richard Prince from his notorious Nurse Paintings series. Check out the first track, "Pattern Recognition," an   [ read more ]

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A band-chosen collection of near-hidden Sonic Youth gems. The album brings together tracks from throughout the band's career - focusing on tracks previously available only on vinyl, limited-release compilations, or as b-sides to international singles. Remastered here for the first time, it's a chance for fans to complete their Sonic Youth collection with pristine versions of tracks they'd been going nuts trying to find on their own. They asked for it... and now they're getting it.

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VINYL FORMAT. Original recordings re-mastered for total high-energy Sonic Attack! This Deluxe Edition 4 LP box set in beautiful packaging adds numerous B-sides and 11 never-before-released rehearsal recordings to the original album. Not to mention, a booklet with essays from Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, and Byron Coley plus more. Now, more than ever, get Dirty. Its yer right!

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EVOL was a major leap forward for Sonic Youth, but Sister is a masterpiece, demonstrating the group's rapidly evolving musicality. More than ever before, Sonic Youth's songs sound like actual songs, and their collages of noise, distortion, and alternate tunings are now used to provide texture and depth to the music, which is original, complex, and rewarding. Not only is there the full-throttle roar of "Tuff Gnarl," but there are shimmering layers of ambient harmonics and dissonance that are a   [ read more ]

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Sonic Youth made its first moves toward rock with EVOL, a stunningly fluent mixture of avant-garde instrumentation and subversions of rock & roll. The band benefits greatly from the addition of structure, which gives their aural experiments a firm grounding, but the addition of drummer Steve Shelley is essential to the group's new, dangerous edge. With the added propulsion, the fearless rush of "Expressway to Yr Skull" (a.k.a. "Madonna, Sean and Me") and the near-pop of "Green Light" are undeniably p   [ read more ]

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Insound Staff Pick - 2008! Corporate Ghost - The Videos: 1990-2002 marks both Sonic Youth's first DVD release and the first collection of the group's groundbreaking Geffen/DGC-era videos. Also includes unreleased bonuses, hours of commentary, a Spike Jonze montage, and more Sonic love. The 23 videos span all seven of Sonic Youth's major label albums, as well as their cover of "Superstar" from 1994's Carpenters tribute album If I Were A Carpenter. Included are the videos for all 11 Goo tracks;   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. There are many who have asked if this record is a collaboration between Sonic Youth, The Ex, and the Insane Clown Posse. No, stupid. Does that make even one bit of sense? Two of rock and roll's most repsected avante-garde bands teaming up with WWF inspired rap-metal? I.C.P. is the acclaimed Dutch free-jazz collective -- not the aforementioned clownish human waste collective. Three bands, eleven musicians, all making a furious racket without limits, boundaries, or conventions.

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VINYL FORMAT. New York's most influential avant-garde rock band, Sonic Youth, follow up their critically acclaimed 2006 release, Rather Ripped, with a special set sure to please fans and completists. The Destroyed Room: B-Sides And Rarities, a collection of near-hidden Sonic Youth gems hand-picked by the band, brings together songs from throughout the band's tenure at Geffen Records. Focusing on tracks previously available only on limited-edition compilations, vinyl-only releases,    [ read more ]

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