Stereogum — After playing in Sonic Youth, Jim O’Rourke moved to Japan and worked on lots of different musical projects, including a soundtrack for Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car, which was composed by Eiko Ishibashi. Now, O’Rourke and Ishibashi are jo... more info

Stereogum — On Friday (Dec. 6), Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo played a show at New York’s The Stone, and the pair brought out Steve Shelley as a special guest, reuniting three-fourths of the band. more info

Magnet Magazine — 25 years ago today, Sonic Youth released SYR4: Goodbye 20th Century. Murdering the classics. Watch our MAGNET television episode with Thurston Moore: The post Sonic Youth Released “SYR4: Goodbye 20th Century” 25 Years Ago Today appeared first on ... more info

Magnet Magazine — Happy birthday Richard Carpenter (Carpenters). Rainy days, birthdays and Sundays … Read Thurston Moore in MAGNET on being dissed by Ellen Page in Juno for Sonic Youth covering the Carpenters: The post Happy Birthday Richard Carpenter (Carpenters) a... more info

Stereogum — In March, Kim Gordon unveiled The Collective, which we named Album Of The Week. Today, the Sonic Youth legend is back with the deluxe edition of that record, and it includes a brand-new song titled “Bangin’ On The Freeway.” more info

Magnet Magazine — Happy birthday Dean Ween (Ween). You can do so many things with your own bare hands. Read Deaner get both mean and serene in MAGNET on the Beatles, Bowie, Black Flag, Butthole Surfers, Billy Joel and other non-B artists, including Grateful Dead, Jimi... more info

Stereogum — LA punks Tube Alloys impressed us with last year’s album Magnetic Point , which drew rampant comparisons to foundational noise merchants like Sonic Youth and OG British post-punk bands like Wire and Swell Maps. They’ve got a new single droppi... more info

Stereogum — Back in 1994, Detroit alt-rock band Sponge released their debut album Rotting Piñata, which yielded the hits “Plowed” and “Molly (Sixteen Candles).” They’re celebrating the 30th anniversary of that breakthrough with 1994, a covers album... more info

Magnet Magazine — Fleeting as it was, Hugo Largo had its moment in the late 1980s. Fawned over by critics and fellow musicians alike, the New York City quartet was the product of a Lower East Side noise scene epitomized by bands like Sonic Youth. But Hugo Largo took i... more info

Magnet Magazine — Happy birthday Paddy Considine (actor, director, writer, musician, Guided By Voices superfan). Renaissance man. Paddy, Steven Soderbergh, Sonic Youth, Spoon, the Black Keys, Strokes, Decemberists, Drive-By Truckers, Sean Lennon and more pick their fa... more info