Sonic Youth
There are only a few truly great experimental rock bands, groups so massively unique that the aftershocks of their influence rumble and reverberate for decades. At the top of that very short list is Sonic Youth. Snark if you will about their longevity, but give them all their due credit. They dragged the sound of New York minimalism into the mainstream. They took techniques from composers like John Cage and applied them to electric guitars — and they didn’t do it at a conservatory or in a recital hall. They did it in hockey arenas. They did it at Glastonbury. They took the banal, brute force of American hardcore and No Wave, and folded it back into itself, creating a radical new performance idiom, one that brimmed with wry intelligence, tactical... Read More
- Genre:
- Rock, Alternative/Indie
- City Of Origin:
- New York City, ,New York United States
- Formed Date:
- 1980
