Tag Archives: Sonic Youth
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ALBUM REVIEW: Kim Gordon makes herself at home on ‘The Collective’
Kim Gordon, “The Collective.” The second solo album by Kim Gordon, The Collective, is a little like the beginning of Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities,” as it sounds like both the best of times and the worst of times. The Collective Kim Gordon Matador, March 8 9/10 Get…
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The 45 best albums of 2023: 20–1
RIFF’s best albums of 2023 include Olivia Rodrigo, Paramore, Lana Del Rey, Mitski, boygenius, Slowdive, Hozier, Yves Tumor, Foo Fighters, Corinne Bailey Rae, Kylie Minogue, The Clientele, Avenged Sevenfold, PJ Harvey, Depeche Mode, Caroline Polachek, Blur, Feist, Sonic Youth and Billy Woods with Kenny Segal. Our album reviews are…
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REVIEW: Sonic Youth mines the vault with ‘Live In Brooklyn 2011’ (the final show)
Sonic Youth, “Live In Brooklyn 2011.” Sonic Youth was my generation’s Camelot. Too young to see Kennedy in the White House, our fin de siècle kingdom was a prolific noise band helmed by grunge’s ultimate power couple, Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon. The band meant a lot of things…
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REWIND: More women who rock to honor the 19th amendment
Kim Gordon performs at the BBC Radio 6 Music Festival at Camden Roundhouse in London on March 8, 2020. Photo by Jim Dyson/Getty Images. On the day before this published, Aug. 26, we marked 102 years since the 19th amendment was ratified, giving women the right to vote. That’s…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Sonic Youth finds some gold in the vaults on ‘In/Out/In’
Sonic Youth, “In/Out/In.” My parents divorced when I was 7. The separation not only meant spending every other weekend with my dad and his new girlfriend; the fracturing of my family made me skeptical that any love could survive the perils of modern life. For a time in my…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Thurston Moore reaches new latitudes of inspiration ‘By The Fire’
The place where pop and art intersect eludes most seekers. Some ambitious bands aim for the sweet spot and overshoot grossly. More commonly, a group disdains one dimension in favor of the other. Too arty for the mainstream yet too accessible for the purist, alternative rocker Thurston Moore is…
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Devil’s advocate: The 50 best albums of 2019: 50-36
Kyle J. Kohner checks in with his own list of the best albums of the year. The first part includes ALCEST, Patriarchy, slowthai, Rico Nasty & Kenny Beats, Danny Brown, Tōth, Richard Dawson, Kim Gordon, Weyes Blood, Deliluh, Chasms, Better Oblivion Community Center, Chemical Brothers, Billie Eilish and Mount…
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REVIEW: Thurston Moore Group refines audacious noise at The Chapel
Thurston Moore Group performs at The Chapel in San Francisco on Dec. 16, 2019. Onome Uyovbievbo/Staff. SAN FRANCISCO — The Chapel hosted Thurston Moore Group Monday for an arty and unusual experience. Alternative rock icon Thurston Moore led a formidable assemblage of credentialed bohemians, including My Bloody Valentine bassist…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Kim Gordon pushes the boundaries on ‘No Home Record’
Kim Gordon’s No Home Record reminds me a little of the episode of The Simpsons in which Barney, the town drunk—after a successful run in the local barbershop quartet—begins dating a Yoko Ono type. At the bar, she orders “a single plum, floating in perfume, served in a man’s…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Wilco ages gracefully on ‘Ode To Joy’
One of the most difficult trials for a band comes when it doesn’t flame out in some dramatic fashion at the chaotic peak of its young career. Without this sudden breaking point arriving in the form of a plane crash, overdose or interpersonal strife, bands can plod along. Their…