Genres: Alternative Pop/Rock, Post-Punk, Indie Rock, Noise-Rock, Experimental Rock, College Rock, American Underground Active: 80's, 90's, 2000's Formed: 1981 in New York, NY
Pavement, Dinosaur Jr., My Bloody Valentine, fIREHOSE, Pussy Galore, Hüsker Dü, Minutemen, Royal Trux, Nirvana, Meat Puppets, Tortoise, Slint, Beck, New Radiant Storm King, Cell, Stereolab, Helium, R.E.M., Blonde Redhead The Olivia Tremor Control, Sebadoh, Slint, Sammy, Polvo, Pavement, Seam, Thinking Fellers Union Local #282, Swell, Trumans Water, Beck, Fluf, Libraness, ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Autolux, Ash Bowie, Daydream Nation, The Dead C, Railroad Jerk |  |
Sonic Youth were one of the most unlikely success stories of underground American rock in the '80s. Where contemporaries R.E.M. and Hüsker Dü were fairly conventional in terms of song structure and melody, Sonic Youth began their career by abandoning any pretense of traditional rock & roll conventions. Borrowing heavily from the free-form noise experimentalism of the Velvet Underground and the Stooges, and melding it with a performance art aesthetic borrowed from the New York post-punk avant-garde, Sonic Youth redefined what noise meant within rock & roll. Sonic Youth rarely rocked, though they were inspired directly by hardcore punk, post-punk, and no wave.
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Release: July 29, 2008
Label: Syr
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Release: April 22, 2008
Label: SYR
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