Rolling Stone — Yoko Ono has recruited Eric Clapton, Paul Simon, Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon, Bette Midler and more artists for the first Plastic Ono Band show in 40 years: a special concert on February 16th at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New ... more info

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L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Unruly sonic storms still form the heart of the veteran band's live show, even as it focuses on the present rather than the influential albums of its youth. Sonic Youth has traveled far with the sounds of beauty and noise,... more info

8/1 — 50 Sonic Youth - The Eternal49 Karen O and The Kids - Where the Wild things are48 Elvis Costello - Secret, Profane & Sugarcane47 Florance and the Machine - Lungs46 Ebony Bones - Bones of My Bones45 Prodigy - Invaders Must Die44 Bibio - Ambivalence Av... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — DOWNLOAD: Velvet Underground - live from the New York Public Library (MP3) Lou Reed, John Zorn, Sonic Youth and others will play a benefit concert for Tuli Kupferberg, the Beat poet and original member of the Fugs, at St. Ann's... more info

Mercury News, California — Remarkably, the band, which began in 1981 as avant-noisemakers, is now embarking on a fourth decade together. The musicians' lack of typical rock-band super egos and their ability to stay clear of hard drugs has helped the group survive while so many... more info

Here Comes The Flood — photo: jezebelmusic.com New York is the world capitol for noise. The Vandelles have tried to capture something of the grind of the Big Apple within the space of the five tracks of their self-titled EP. Taking cues from Sonic Youth and The Jesus and ... more info

Troubled Souls Unite — 166. It's the magic number. It's the number of posts from 2008. It's also the number of posts from 2009. Funny how these things work out.It's also been a great year for albums. And a great year for concerts. And a great year for music in general. Her... more info

Fantastic Weapon — I get really, really skeptical when bands who send me music to review list REALLY GOOD artists under their "Influences." So I was immediately expecting an aural atrocity when I visited Daddy Lion's myspace page and they had the following artists list... more info

Altsounds — From veterans Sonic Youth to newcomers The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, from Brooklyn’s White Rabbits to Britain’s Bat For Lashes to San Francisco’s Girls to three bands who had exceptional years in 2009, Animal Collect... more info