Genres: Alternative Pop/Rock, Post-Punk, Indie Rock, Noise-Rock, Experimental Rock, College Rock, American Underground Active: 80's, 90's, 2000's Formed: 1981 in New York, NY
Minutemen, My Bloody Valentine, Hüsker Dü, fIREHOSE, Dinosaur Jr., Pussy Galore, Pavement, Royal Trux, Nirvana, Tortoise, Slint, Meat Puppets, R.E.M., Polvo, Boxing, Cell, New Radiant Storm King, Stereolab, Beck The Dead C, Thinking Fellers Union Local #282, Seam, Pavement, Polvo, Sammy, Slint, Railroad Jerk, Poster Children, Libraness, Swell, The Swirlies, Autolux, Women, The Olivia Tremor Control, Kinski, Fluf, Beck, Trumans Water |  |
Sonic Youth were one of the most unlikely success stories of underground American rock in the '80s. Where contemporaries R.E.M. and Hüsker Dü were fairly conventional in terms of song structure and melody, Sonic Youth began their career by abandoning any pretense of traditional rock & roll conventions. Borrowing heavily from the free-form noise experimentalism of the Velvet Underground and the Stooges, and melding it with a performance art aesthetic borrowed from the New York post-punk avant-garde, Sonic Youth redefined what noise meant within rock & roll. Sonic Youth rarely rocked, though they were inspired directly by hardcore punk, post-punk, and no wave.
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Release: June 10, 2008
Label: Starbucks
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Release: July 29, 2008
Label: Syr
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