Mercury News, California — Here's a record in which Gordon sings all the best stuff. It begins with a short, hard and self-referential rock song, 'Sacred Trickster,' and ends with the psychedelic folk song 'Massage the History,' a stunner. more info

Pasta Primavera — Sonic Youth is one of the bands that I never want to change.  Please don’t dabble with techno beats.  No acoustic albums please.  Just keep pumping out your unique brand of experimental noise rock that I’ve held so dear for as long as I ... more info

Stereogum — Over the past year or so, Stephen Malkmus and his Jicks, Mark Ibold and his Sonic Youth, and Bob Nastanovich and his IKEA have been getting more column space, but Scott Kannberg, aka Pavement co-founder Spiral Stairs, is back and ready for some of hi... more info

Culture Bully — Sonic Youth perform "No Way" on the June 22 episode of Late Night. more info

Pasta Primavera — Sonic Youth have just released the first video from their new album The Eternal for the lead single “Sacred Trickster”.  Let me just say this album is the bomb and I have my take on it in the works for later this week.  This video is the bo... more info

Stereogum — A week and change after doing "Sacred Trickster" on Letterman, Sonic Youth skipped over the chance to repeat The Eternal's more info

Rollo & Grady — Amoeba Records - Hollywood 1.) Mos Def - Ecstatic (Buy) 2.) Sonic Youth - Eternal 3.) Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest 4.) Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix 5.) Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca 6.) J Dilla - Jay Stay Paid 7.) Placebo - Battle for the Sun 8.)... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Deaf, Dumb, Blind said...Killing Joke - Killing Joke [Bonus Tracks] (1980)Killing Joke - Night Time (1985)Killing Joke - Outside the Gate (1988)Killing Joke - Pandemonium [Bonus Tracks] (1994)Killing Joke - Hosannas From the Basements of Hell (2006)h... more info

411 Mania — Beck taking on Sonic Youth, Velvet Underground and more for the Record Club... more info

Altsounds — Complete Line Up with day by day breakdown is online at www.capitolhillblockparty.com (http://www.capitolhillblockparty.com/): SONIC YOUTH, THE JESUS LIZARD,BUILT TO SPILL,THE GOSSIP, DEERHUNTER, BLACK LIPS, THE THERMALS, PELA, THE PAINS OF BEING PU... more info