Visual artist and former Sonic Youth bassist-singer Kim Gordon has been announced as keynote speaker at next year's South By Southwest Conference in Austin. Joining the noise rock icon as an initial keynote at the annual event will be Reggie Fils-Aimé, the former president and COO of Nintendo of America. SXSW also announced…

The Avant-Garde filmmaker also worked with Patti Smith, Andy Warhol and many moreJonas MekasJonas Mekas, the influential Avant-Garde filmmaker who worked with a host of artists and musicians during the 1960s and 1970s, has died. He was 96-years-old. The Lithuanian-American filmmaker, whose pioneering work captured the underground art and music s...

Sonic Youth have announced that they are celebrating the 30th anniversary of the band's landmark album, 'Daydream Nation',

They're also selling tour and studio gearThere's also film screenings celebrating the album's anniversarySonic Youth have launched an extensive live archival collection, to mark the 30th anniversary of their iconic album ‘Daydream Nation’. The six releases feature both audio and video of Sonic Youth’s concerts. Recordings f...

"Refute," one of the early singles from Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks' recent album Sparkle Hard, was a duet featuring Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon. But when Malkmus and the Jicks played the song at their show in Bristol on Sunday, they enlisted another indie-rock veteran to sing Gordon's part: Eleanor Friedberger, the singer-songwriter who u...