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Sonic Youth Are Underwhelming

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By Shehzaad Jiwani (CHARTattack) July 2, 2009 4:11 pm
It's hard to criticize one of your favourite bands. Even for jaded rock critics, it's tough to remain objective when a musician you respect and admire takes the stage. And when we do summon the willpower necessary to do our jobs with integrity, it can be painful — no one wants to bash a group they love. This makes it hard for me to express my...
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Sonic Youth — The Eternal

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By Shehzaad Jiwani (CHARTattack) June 9, 2009 1:30 pm
Sonic Youth are one of the very few bands who still release stylistically progressive and artistically relevant records nearly three decades into their career. Their late period output has belied their age and their last album, 2006's Rather Ripped, was easily their strongest since the band's untouchable string of releases between 1988's...
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Sonic Youth's The Eternal

Llik Your Idols Explores No Wave

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By Ian Gormely (CHARTattack) May 14, 2009 11:30 am
Art films by definition are weird, indulgent enterprises that rarely make an impact beyond a director's group of friends. But when those friends go on to spark a cultural movement, the films become a visual document of a unique place and time. Llik Your Idols documents the Cinema Of Transgression, a group of '80s New York-based filmmakers who...
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Sonic Youth — The Destroyed Room: B-sides And Rarities

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By Kevin Ritchie (CHARTattack) December 12, 2006 9:14 am
Featuring a series of one-offs, studio improvisations and elusive "European-only" gems, The Destroyed Room will likely find a happy home on the shelves of many rabid Sonic Youth completists. With a few exceptions, most of the material was recorded after 1999, but it's certainly worth a listen for fans of the group's experimental or...
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Sonic Youth Air Ripped, And Little Else

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) August 11, 2006 4:30 pm
It's kind of weird to see a band two times in four days in two separate countries. It's even weirder when, four days after the first show, one of the singers in said band is wearing the same dress as the one she donned in a sweaty Chicago field. But one can excuse Kim Gordon, because she's in Sonic Youth, who have been around for more than a...
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Sonic Youth — Rather Ripped

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) June 13, 2006 5:40 pm
There's a small war on internet message boards about Rather Ripped. The band's old school feedback fans think this is pretty much the death of their avant-garde heroes, while latter-day listeners and diehards who will buy anything SY-related are trying to convince the other side they're wrong. I'm firmly against those who would say this record's...
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Sonic Youth — Sonic Nurse

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By Elizabeth Chorney-Booth (CHARTattack) June 8, 2004 12:35 pm
More than 20 years into their game, Sonic Youth aren’t as mind-blowing as they were in the late-’80s, but they’re still putting out above-par records, which counts for something. Sonic Nurse follows 2002’s Murray Street, which was a return to classic SY form after 2000’s experimental, spoken-word-laced NYC Ghosts & Flowers. Sonic Nurse is...
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Sonic Youth + I.C.P. + The Ex — In The Fishtank 9

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By James Davies (CHARTattack) October 8, 2002 2:42 pm
A number of years ago a certain cable music channel permitted Thurston Moore to rule the airwaves for an hour. Well-known for a range of strange habits, Moore played an eclectic collection including a homemade video of some guy smashing glass over tin cans in front of a Tokyo audience. The camera panned back to Moore, giddy as an eight-year old...
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CHARTattack PRESENTS | Fifteen Noisy, Messy Songs

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By Dan Busheikin (CHARTattack) January 17, 2012 11:59 am
Feeling sluggish this morning? Same. But we've put together a little pick-me-up for you. Today we salute those artists who can make something beautiful out of dirty, messy noise. Noisy music has a sort of inherit spirituality: While angels up in heaven are plucking away at their tiny angel harps, us miserable humans are stuck on Earth, maxing out...
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MP3 Roundup: New music from Lee Ranaldo (of Sonic Youth), Field Music, Dirty Three and Wavves covers Misfits

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By Dan Busheikin (CHARTattack) January 13, 2012 2:10 pm
Lee Ranaldo - "Off the Wall" While iconic alt rockers Sonic Youth may be no more, guitarist and founding member Lee Ranaldo will be releasing his ninth solo album, Between the Tides & the Times, this March. Here's the straightforward album cut "Off the Wall," a pleasant preview of what's to come. Check out a decently recorded clip of...
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Sonic Youth power couple Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon are like, totally over

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By Dan Busheikin (CHARTattack) October 15, 2011 11:01 am
After almost three decades of marriage, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon have separated. The two tied the knot in 1984, shortly before the band released their second studio album Bad Moon Rising. In 1994, they had a daughter, Coco Hayley Gordon Moore, who now handles vocal duties for a very Sonic Youth-esque art punk band called Big...
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LISTEN: Cults' Artist Mixtape featuring Timber Timbre, Sonic Youth, Madvillain

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By Dan Busheikin (CHARTattack) October 12, 2011 9:16 am
If you're among the many who have fallen hard for Cults' dreamy soul music, why not listen to some of the music that Cults has fallen hard for? For their fiftieth mix, ArtistMixtapes.com has the NYC couple play DJ for eight songs. There are some unexpected picks here, including Toronto's own Timber Timbre, Calgary-based experimental rockers Women...
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I Read The News Today... For June 23, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 23, 2011 4:11 pm
Hey! Hey Rosetta! are touring! This! Summer! Whoa! You Europeans will likely need a healthy dose of the macabre to balance out your good times kickin' back with a cold one on the patio in the sunshine, so here are Timber Timbre's upcoming shows. The Dears are apparently performing with Prince next week at the Montreal Jazz Festival. Or at least...
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I Read The News Today... For June 14, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff June 14, 2011 3:48 pm
Tom Hanks' production company is going to make a movie out of Green Day's American Idiot musical, which basically ensures it's going to be the least punk rock thing ever, even with Billie Joe Armstrong starring in it. Thurston Moore is going to be teaching writing classes at the Jack Kerouac School Of Disembodied Poetics, which is not a fake place...
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I Read The News Today... For June 1, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 1, 2011 2:49 pm
The Dears' Natalia Yanchak has published a short story called Final Fridays, which you can read by checking out her blog. CHARTattack contributor Steve McLean gives you a Stanley Cup finals playoffs playlist consisting of hockey songs. Brian Wilson stopped by George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight to talk about his dad, who used to beat him as a child,...
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I Read The News Today... For April 19, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) April 19, 2011 3:29 pm
Holy crappers! Radiohead have released "Supercollider" and "The Butcher," the two tunes they released on limited-edition vinyl on Saturday for Record Store Day, to fans for free download. There's no catch, and they're apparently giving them away as a "thank you." —NME If you're a grunge obsessive whose VHS copy of 1991: The Year Punk Broke, a...
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I Read The News Today... For March 14, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 14, 2011 4:45 pm
Want to see a guy screaming into a microphone while a silent film plays in the background? Head to this year's Images Festival, then. 54-40 are celebrating their 30th anniversary this year by releasing a new album entitled Lost In The City. It's their 13th studio LP and it's out June 14.The Kills are offering a free download of "DNA" from their...
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I Read The News Today... For Feb. 10, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) February 10, 2011 5:01 pm
Toronto alt.country band One Hundred Dollars will release their Songs Of Man sophomore album on May 10. You can stream "Waiting On Another," which will appear on the album, here. Bison B.C. were recently detained at the U.S.-Canadian border while trying to cross the 49th parallel south into the States. Why? Well, according to guitarist/vocalist...
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I Read The News Today... For Nov. 11, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) November 11, 2010 2:00 pm
Montreal indie rockers Young Galaxy will release Shapeshifting, their third full-length album, on Feb. 8. The follow-up to 2009's Invisible Republic was produced by Dan Lissvik of Swedish electronica duo Studio. —Paper BagWhite Cowbell Oklahoma will tour Canada with The Schomberg Fair later this month and in early December. Bring a raincoat. Their...
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I Read The News Today... For Oct. 6, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) October 6, 2010 1:13 pm
Regina Spektor's first ever live CD/DVD, Live In London, is out Nov. 22. —Warner Music CanadaGwar's Oderus Urungus will be the grand marshall for this year's Toronto Zombie Walk, which starts Oct. 23 at Trinity Bellwoods Park. The bar has now been set (and raised impossibly high) for costumes. —Metal BladeA bunch of angry Weezer fans are saying...
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