Thirty essential songs by the indie institution. By Matthew Perputua
David Geffen by Sonic Youth
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Here’s a full scan of the oral history of Sub Pop I wrote for the July 2008 issue of Blender (20 years of history crammed into a mere four pages!). This humble piece served as the basis for my book Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge (out in paperback March 13; order info here).
Pro-shot video of Sonic Youth performing “Teenage Riot” at Brazil’s SWU festival, November 2011.
Sonic Youth in Moscow Kiev, 1989
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For those of you who don’t have the 26-minute version of “The Diamond Sea”
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I interviewed one of my all-time favorite musicians for Rolling Stone! Lee talks about the Kim/Thurston split, his first proper solo album, what it means to “return to form,” and disses Ryan Gosling for being too much of a pretty boy. Check it out!
Reblogged from Fluxtumblr
The Sonic Youth Covers Playlist
- Beat On The Brat (Ramones)
- Personality Crisis (New York Dolls)
- Ca Plane Pour Moi (Plastic Bertrand)
- Psycho Mafia (The Fall)
- Black Candy (Beat Happening)
- Pushing The Extreme (The Wipers)
- Sitting On A Barbed Wire Fence (Bob Dylan & The Band)
- Touch Me I’m Sick (Mudhoney)
- I Am Right (Saccharine Trust)
- Nic Fit (Untouchables)
- That’s All I Know Right Now (Neon Boys)
- Hot Wire My Heart (Crime)
- I Know There’s An Answer (The Beach Boys)
- Is It My Body (Alice Cooper)
- Hallowed Be Thy Name (Alice Cooper)
- Stephanie Says (The Velvet Underground)
- I’m Not There (Bob Dylan)
- Superstar (The Carpenters)
- Within You Without You (The Beatles)
- Victoria (The Kinks as covered by The Fall)
- Electricity (Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band)
- Burning Farm (Shonen Knife)
- Mama You’ve Been On My Mind (Bob Dylan)
- Into The Groove-y (Madonna)
- Rowche Rumble (The Fall)
- My New House (The Fall)
- Computer Age (Neil Young)
- Visions Of Johanna (Bob Dylan)
- Bubblegum (Kim Fowley)
- Moist Vagina (Nirvana)
- European Son (The Velvet Underground)
- I Wanna Be Your Dog (The Stooges)
- The Simpsons Theme
Reblogged from Pop Snacking
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