In the spring of 1989, a few months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Sonic Youth played shows across Lithuania, Russia, and Ukraine — all part of the USSR at the time. Sonic Youth weren’t the first noisy Western band to play Ukraine; Nick Cave, Einsturzende Neubauten, and Discharge had all played the city. But the Sonic Yo...

It comes as the latest in a series of archival Sonic Youth projects dropped on BandCampThe post Sonic Youth announce rarities compilation ‘In/Out/In’, share slow-burner ‘In & Out’ appeared first on NME.

Sonic Youth were still cranking out incredible music upon their dissolution in the early 2010s, and now we get to hear quite a bit more of it. Two months from today the band will release In/Out/In, a collection of rare and unreleased recordings from their final decade together — from the Jim O’Rourke era to the Mark Ibold era...

Almost exactly a decade ago, Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore announced that they were separating. This essentially marked the end of Sonic Youth, the band that the two of them had led for a very long time. Since then, all the members of Sonic Youth have gone on to other projects, and they haven’t exactly had a ton of warm things to say a...

Sonic Youth served as the inspiration for a new line of running wear from the company Satisfy, as Women’s Wear Daily reports. The collection includes singlets, t-shirts, caps, shorts, socks, and more, all adorned with the band’s logo and iconography. The brand’s merchandise page for the collection also contains some...