Sonic Youth's June Album "Replete With Juicy Supersonic Songs"

Sonic Youth are reportedly in the final stages of recording their new album, the band's first since 2006's Rather Ripped. Thurston Moore tells Uncut the new album, which is still being called The Eternal, is "a record replete with juicy supersonic songs!" The band hopes to release their 16th studio album in June and will be their first as members of Matador Records' galaxy of stars. "For Matador, the opportunity to work in partnership with a group who've made such an profound impact on our roster/hometown/collective consciousness was one to jump at," the label said in a statement when the signing was announced. The group also premiered two new songs during a concert at Brooklyn's McCarren Pool last summer. Sonic Youth were previously signed to DGC from 1990's Goo until Rather Ripped (Though the band's pre-Goo catalog was later reissued via DGC.)

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“Smells Like Teen Spirit”

Nirvana | 1991

"Smells Like Teen Spirit," named after a brand of deodorant marketed to girls, was Kurt Cobain's attempt to "write the ultimate pop song," he said, using the soft-loud dynamic of his favorite band, the Pixies. Cobain "had that dichotomy of punk rage and alienation," the song’s producer, Butch Vig, told Rolling Stone, "but also this vulnerable pop sensibility. In 'Teen Spirit,' a lot of that vulnerability is in the tone of his voice." Sadly, by the time of Nirvana's last U.S. tour, in late '93, Cobain was tortured by the obligation to play "Teen Spirit" every night. "There are many other songs that I have written that are as good, if not better," he claimed.

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