Latest about Sonic Youth
Thurston Moore on the making of Sonic Youth’s Sister, and the transition from junk guitars to Fender
The NYC noise-rock pioneer looks back to 1987, a time when Sonic Youth were growing up in public and expanding their vocabulary of alternate tunings
Sonic Youth are now alternate tunings icons – but the band opted for them out of necessity
The noise-rock icon is famous for his love of weird tunings, but that fixation only happened with a little help from one of the NY art-rock scene’s biggest innovators
Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo is selling his first-ever electric guitar on the band's relaunched Reverb store
This is the third time the iconic experimental rockers have linked up with the online gear marketplace to sell a collection of their own gear to fans
Lee Ranaldo remembers the time Steve Albini made Sonic Youth a guitar with 16 high E-strings – and an inlaid appendage
The alt rock icon has recalled the producer and guitarist’s ultimate in-joke custom guitar build
Lou Reed once recorded an avant-garde album consisting solely of guitar feedback
Metal Music Machine nearly cost Reed his reputation… over the years, it became a source of inspiration for Sonic Youth and Neil Young
Thurston Moore: “I’ve always liked that purity of guitar/amp action. The more I can get to that, the better I feel”
The Sonic Youth trailblazer on learning to record at home for new album Screen Time, and why he's fed up of hearing guitarists' pedalboards more than guitarists themselves
Thurston Moore announces Screen Time, a concept album of guitar instrumentals recorded during the 2020 lockdown
The Sonic Youth and experimental rock icon has a 10-track collection of instrumentals arriving this month – hear the first two tracks now
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Watch rare footage of J Mascis performing with Sonic Youth in 1987
The gig took place at now-defunct Boston venue The Rat
