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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

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The Eternal

It's amusing to think that the fiercely freaky Sonic Youth were a major-label act for nearly 20 years. The Eternal marks their literal return to indie rock — and that's no big whoop, since they've always done pretty much what they want anyway. The irony is that The Eternal might be their most...

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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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