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

Magnet Magazine — 55 years ago today, the Carpenters released Close To You. Reason to believe. Read Thurston Moore in MAGNET on being dissed by Ellen Page in Juno for Sonic Youth covering the Carpenters: The post The Carpenters Released “Close To You” 55 Years Ago... more info

Magnet Magazine — 35 years ago today, the Pump Up The Volume soundtrack was released. Sonic Youth, Pixies, Bad Brains & Henry Rollins, Soundgarden, Cowboy Junkies, Peter Murphy, Concrete Blonde and more kick out the jams, motherfuckers. The post The “Pump Up The Vol... more info

Magnet Magazine — Happy 70th birthday Butch Vig (Garbage, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Smashing Pumpkins, Against Me!). Get smart. Photo for MAGNET by Wes Orshoski. Read our Five Questions with Vig and Shirley Manson: The post Happy 70th Birthday Butch Vig (Garbage, Nirvana,... more info

Stereogum — The great off-kilter music auteur Jim O’Rourke moved to Japan after his time in Sonic Youth ended, and he’s been over there ever since. For many years, he’s been working with Eiko Ishibashi, the Japanese composer who scored Ryusuke Hamaguchi... more info

Magnet Magazine — 35 years ago today, Sonic Youth released Goo. Time to rock the road. Watch our MAGNET television episode with Thurston Moore: The post Sonic Youth Released “Goo” 35 Years Ago Today appeared first on Magnet Magazine. more info

Stereogum — Among its three members, the brand new supergroup Orcutt Shelley Miller includes a whole lot of avant-rock experience and salt-and-pepper wizard-beard action. Of the three people in the band, chances are you’re most familiar with Steve Shelley, ... more info

Stereogum — Last year Kim Gordon rocked the music world with her polarizing The Collective lead single “Bye Bye,” on which she delivers a deadpan rap over a trap beat. Now the former Sonic Youth co-leader is back to give the song an anti-Trump twist. more info

Stereogum — Glasgow indie rockers Dancer hearken back to the ’80s post-punk/new wave moment in a similar way to Cincinnati’s Artificial Go. Last year’s debut album 10 Songs I Hate About You drew a lot of comparisons to Life Without Buildings. On “Ju... more info

Stereogum — The metal-leaning label Magnetic Eye has a long-running series called Redux, in which tons of different underground artists pay homage to titans of the form. Yesterday, Magnetic Eye release two Ramones tribute albums, both of which were curated by... more info