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Sonic Underground is an LCD game created by Tiger Electronics in 2000. The game case was shaped like Sonic holding a guitar, an instrument he uses in the television show Sonic Underground.
This week on New Ground, a full band interview/performance with one of the great underground guitar groups of all time: Sonic Youth. Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Steve Shelley, Lee Renaldo, and new ...
After spending nearly 20 years delivering crunchy, underground guitar rock for a major label, Sonic Youth has returned to its indie roots for its 16th studio album, The Eternal.Out now on Matador ...
"I can't really play 'real' guitar," Moore explains with a chuckle. "Sonic Youth never once played a traditional, standard-tuned guitar outside of the very first EP we did.
Sonic Youth co-founder Thurston Moore has a new memoir out. Instead, he stole his brother’s Fender Stratocaster electric guitar. But when he tired of Moore snapping the strings, he gave Moore ...
It was an approach to the instrument that would go on to spread like spider cracks through the American rock underground, from the dBs and R.E.M. to Sonic Youth and Slint to Wilco and the indie ...
Lee Ranaldo, co-founder of Sonic Youth, last night (October 28) hosted a ‘guitar clinic’ at the Other Music store in Manhattan, New York. The event consisted of a half-hour long demonstration ...