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New Sonic Youth Video - "Sacred Trickster"

Sonic Youth's 16th (quite satisfying) album The Eternal opens with the Yves Klein/Noise Nomads-referencing "Sacred Trickster," a track you may have seen performed live to Letterman. It's the briefest song on the album, a mix of art-rock elegance and feedback splutters, i.e. a good use of nods to French painters and Western Mass noisemakers. The video, directed by downtown fixture (and T. Moore collaborator) Tom Surgal, follows suit by following three girls to the hardware store, wig shop, and et...

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14:11 on June 16 2009

New Sonic Youth Video - "Sacred Trickster"

Stereogum — Sonic Youth's 16th (quite satisfying) album The Eternal opens with the Yves Klein/Noise Nomads-referencing "Sacred Trickster," a track you may have seen performed live to... more info

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18:50 on June 15 2009

Sonic Youth : The Eternal

My Old Kentucky — I have a difficult time writing about Sonic Youth. This is a band responsible for some of the greatest music of the past 25+ years, and whose unwavering vision has allowe... more info

Sonic Youth

17:16 on June 16 2009

Newsweek: Sonic Youth embraces the fringe

Sonic Youth's latest slab of distortion-laced beauty, "The Eternal," is unusually notable because it is the band's first record for an independent label in two decades. W... more info

Sonic Youth

18:00 on June 16 2009