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June 14, 2006

Sonic Youth Bring New Rock to Doomed CBGB

Veteran New York pioneers celebrate fifteenth album, twenty-five-years strong

The Destroyed Room

New York art-punk heroes S onic Youth have long cultivated a dense, dirty guitar sound you can completely get lost in. This band-curated, mostly vocal-free collection of outtakes and B sides draws largely from the twenty-first century, when that sound was more ruminative than raw. Unsurprisingly, it...

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Sonic Youth is the avatar of noisy, underground guitar rock. After making the transition from uncompromising avant-rockers in the early '80s to indie guitar-pop trailblazers by decade's end, the group became the alternative-music world's brightest beacon. In the '90s Sonic Youth's sound continued to influence younger bands, the most famous evidence being in the grungy, sometimes discordant riffs o...

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