Brooklyn Vegan — people watching Sonic Youth in Battery Park (more by Jason Bergman) The 2010 River to River series of free summer shows in NYC is slowly being announced. As previously mentioned, Genesis member Steve Hackett is playing Rockefeller Park, the Bang... more info

Guardian Music — China's underground scene is making noise music so feral that it will have you running for your chillwave collectionAway from China's mainstream rock scene – where shoe brands spend their budgets building tour buses to take the country's equiv... more info

Pitchfork — Photo by Michael SchmellingSonic Youth's website reports that the band has recorded the soundtrack to the film Simon Werner a Disparu, directed by French director Fabrice Gobert. It will screen at next month's Cannes Film Festival. According to the P... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Long before the days of Fred Durst, Cypress Hill was at the forefront of rap-rock fusion. Its Sonic Youth collaboration, “I Love You Mary Jane,” on 1993’s “Judgment Night” soundtrack, was one of the highlights of a much... more info

Pitchfork — -- A pretty sick bill comes to the Hollywood Bowl on September 30: Pavement, with Sonic Youth and No Age opening. Mark Ibold, who currently plays in both Pavement and Sonic Youth, will have a busy night. -- On May 17, Beggars Archive will release an ... more info

The Playlist — To a long-time reader, it might be no surprise that we here at The Playlist love Sonic Youth. The rockers, whose last (and 15th!) album was The Eternal, an excellent reminder of the legacy of noise rock's key founders, are now confirmed to have score... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — "One of the best pavement concerts ever... At the fox in pomona... 30 songs u missed it..." - SANDY EGGO "2 encores, ALL of Slanted (pretty much), and new lyrics to The Hexx." - Karina Longworth "Sorry Coachella. Pavement played... more info

NME — The group will play the Hollywood Bowl with Sonic Youth and No Age more info

Guardian Music — Last week was all about shoes, real and metaphorical. This week, we want you to suggest songs that affront and derideI think my fave comment of last week was from Williamsbach who made this observation about (another) Carl Perkins song:"Pointed Toe S... more info

Guardian Music — (Fiction)Kate Nash has spent the three years since achieving fame cooking up a record that's a substantial progression from the rickety kitchen-sink pop of her No 1 debut. Not only has the sound been plumped up with girl-group strings – for wh... more info