My Old Kentucky — Sonic Youth's 16th studio album, The Eternal, hit my mailbox this weekend, so I tore it open and popped it in. Sacred Trickster, the first free download, kicks it off right...two minutes of Kim Gordon over furious crunch and fuzz. The Eternal will ... more info

NME - The Daily Download — First up a heads up - Sonic Youth released a new track as a free MP3 today. 'Scared Trickster' is available through the Matador website and is the lead track of their new (sixteenth!) album 'The Eternal'. It's business as usual and a nice taster for ... more info

NME — Fans can download 'Sacred Trickster' now more info

Mojo 4 Music — Pink Floyd sue EMI, Sonic Youth: free download, Massive Attack tour the UK... more info

The Quietus — Plus track from The Eternal is up on iTunes more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Stephanie Berger "It is not unusual these days to hear Merce Cunningham called the world's greatest living choreographer. I go further: I have long thought that he is the greatest living artist since the death of Samuel Beckett,... more info

Chicago Tribune — Growing up in Michigan, Occidental Brothers Dance Band International guitarist Nathaniel Braddock, determined to discover music outside the mainstream, extended his search far overseas—eventually stumbling onto the music of West Africa. Up to that ... more info

411 Mania — MBV drafts Sonic Youth, De La Soul and more for ATP: The Nightmare Before Christmas... more info

JamBase — My Bloody Valentine Curate ATP's Nightmare Before Christmas After the enormous success of last year's sold out U.K. tour and a brilliant turn as the inaugural curators for ATP New York, it was announced today that the curators for ATP: Nig... more info

Rolling Stone — My Bloody Valentine will curate 2009’s ATP: The Nightmare Before Christmas festival, which goes down at Minehead, England’s Butlins Holiday Resort December 4th through 6th. If MBV wasn’t enough reason to hop the Atlantic, so far Kevin Shields h... more info