Guardian Music — 1987: Number 44 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance musicIn 1987, a new venue stumbled into life and illuminated that dark decade as a space where downtown experimentalists could find listeners: Steve Coleman and Bill Frisell m... more info

Guardian Music — High heels, whips, even a chocolate Jesus. You got down and dirty with kinky songsSome of your suggestions were brilliantly clever and witty: Duke Ellington's Rubber Bottom; Olivia Newton John's Hopelessly Devoted to You; the Ronettes' I Saw Mommy Ki... more info

Altsounds — Sonic Youth's *Lee Ranaldo *will perform a solo suspended guitar score for Buster Keaton's 1922 silent film Cops at ELLNORA | The Guitar Festival at Krannert Center in Urbana, Illinois, on September 9, 2011. Ranaldo's score for Krannert Center will... more info

Impose Magazine — Buster Keaton can project through silence; in the opening scenes of his 1922 silent film Cops, he stands opposite his love interest as she turns away from him, leaving him dejected behind a fence—his eyes seemingly full of turmoil and youthful desp... more info

KEXP Seattle — In the late ’80s, the members of Sonic Youth joined up with Mike Watt to form a joke band called Ciccone Youth (Ciccone, of course, being the given surname of the pop icon known as Madonna). Of course people forming joke bands and one-off experimen... more info

Guardian Music — Union Chapel, LondonIn his 30 years fronting New York art-rock perennials Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore has always looked to confound expectations. The cult star's latest solo project may just be his most surprising yet. Produced by Beck, Moore's recen... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Bright Eyes at Sasquatch 2011 (more by Josh Darr) More artists have added Williamsburg Waterfront shows to their summer schedules. Bright Eyes' Radio City opener Wild Flag already have a waterfront show with Sonic Youth and Kurt Vile. Now Conor... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — For all the legacy of Sonic Youth’s noise-laden, avant-garde beginnings and the continued examination of it through their later work, founding member Thurston Moore’s solo albums have always been a touch more pop leavened. 2007′s Trees Outside ... more info

The Quietus — Thurston Moore suggests new radicalism. Photo by Dave Ma more info

NME — Thurston Moore speaks about band at solo show in London more info