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Kim Gordon’s candid, revelatory “Girl in a Band,” published just a few years after the dissolution of Sonic Youth, has been hailed as one of the greatest rock memoirs ever. Since the book’s release in 2015, Gordon has gone on to relaunch her career in music with a pair of …

As hard as it is to believe, Sonic Youth played their final show 14 years ago this fall, instigated by the breakup of co-founders Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon. In the years since, they’ve each continued working on many fronts: Gordon was nominated for a Grammy this year for her …

As hard as it is to believe, Sonic Youth played their final show 14 years ago this fall, instigated by the breakup of co-founders Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon. In the years since, they’ve each continued working on many fronts: Gordon was nominated for a Grammy this year for her …

Before Lollapalooza became just another giant festival, it was a culture-shaking Nineties traveling carnival that helped define the thing we used to call “alternative.”Key moments in the careers of Pearl Jam, Nine Inch Nails, Ice-T, Green Day, Rage Against the Machine, Courtney Love, and many more played out on its …

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H ere they come now, bustling down the street in Brooklyn, three young musicians wrapped in winter coats and chatting animatedly among themselves as they approach the diner on the corner. It’s a chilly Friday in December, just a couple of degrees above freezing, but that’s nothing for this trio …

If Kim Gordon’s first-ever Grammy nominations for her current album, The Collective, intrigued anyone enough to investigate her former band, Sonic Youth, they will be given the perfect opportunity to do so when a rare live recording is officially released next year. Hold That Tiger, recorded at Chicago’s Cabaret Metro …

In a news photo circulated two weeks ago, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Untook turns driving a Russian-made limo in Pyongyang, North Korea. The sight of two dictators tooling around was unsettling — but also ripe for a particular type of mockery. Soon after the photo appeared, a meme began …

Kim Gordon has released a new song, “ECRP,” along with its video. The non-album single follows the release of her second solo album, The Collective. Like the songs on The Collective, Justin Raisen also produced “ECRP,” which dovetails with the avant-garde, hip-hop, and industrial mélange found on the album despite …

Thurston Moore is back, and limitless. The Sonic Youth founding guitarist has officially announced his ninth solo album, Flow Critical Lucidity. It marks his first full length album since 2021’s instrumental meditation Screen Time. Along with the official album announcement, Moore has shared new single “Sans Limites” featuring Stereolab’s Lætitia …