Sonic Youth Music

Origin: New York, NY

Decades: 1980's, 1990's, and 2000's

Sonic Youth was one of the most unlikely success stories of underground American rock in the '80s. Where contemporaries R.E.M. and Husker Du were fairly conventional in terms of song structure and melody, Sonic Youth began their career by abandoning any pretense of traditional rock & roll conventions. Borrowing heavily from the free-form noise experimentalism of the Velvet Underground and the Stooges, and melding it with a performance art aesthetic borrowed from the New York post-punk avant-garde, Sonic You... Read More

Black Flag, Television, The Velvet Underground, The Pretenders, Wire, The Stooges, György Ligeti, and The Fall

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