Brooklyn Vegan — Thurston Moore at Santos on April 7th (more by Lori Baily) "Sonic Youth announce their North American tour for this summer. General tickets are on sale Sat May 2. Presale tickets on sale Friday May 1. Buy Early Get Now... more info

Pop Tarts Suck Toasted — Sonic Youth - "Sacred Trickster"; The first taste that we get from Sonic Youth's new album is a bit too brief for my liking. At only 2-minutes this pales in comparison to the old super long suites Sonic Youth were known for, but it assaults your ears... more info

Starpulse — As a self professed cross between Sonic Youth, PJ Harvey, The Pixies, Fugazi and Incubus, Arkansas' Always April certainly have a shroud of mystery around them.[...] Read more! more info

411 Mania — New songs from Sunset Rubdown and Sonic Youth, MBV t curate ATP’s NBC, the fork fest new additions, thoughts on the Clues album and more. more info

Aquarium Drunkard — I’ve spent roughly a week and a half with Sonic Youth’s upcoming LP The Eternal (SY’s Matador Records debut). Remember in February when we we discussed event albums?  Well, this is most definitely one of mine.  The label just released th... more info

8/1 — After Rather Ripped, the band left Geffen Records. They signed with Matador in 2008, and began working on new music. Fans were informed daily of the album's recording progress on the social-networking site Twitter.Sacred Trickster is a 2:10 out-of-t... more info

Rolling Stone — Although you could hear the eerie, creeping and tantalizing sounds being made by Sonic Youth, legendary Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones and Takehisa Kosugi at the start of their performance at New York’s Brooklyn Academy of Music Saturday nigh... more info

Altsounds — *SONIC YOUTH* * Track available to download today, Monday 20th April * Buy Early Get Now from Tuesday 28th April * London Scala show next Monday 27th April * ATP Nightmare Before Christmas Lead track on the forthcoming Sonic Youth album The Etern... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Merce Cunningham & Sonic Youth & friends @ BAM (more by Stephanie Berger) EVENING STARS: MERCE CUNNINGHAM DANCE COMPANY Location to be announced Co-produced with The Joyce Theater, Merce Cunningham Dance Company will create a site-specific Event feat... more info

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