In a news photo circulated two weeks ago, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un took turns driving a Russian-made limo in Pyongyang, North Korea. The sight of two dictators tooling around was unsettling — ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Mariano Regidor/Redferns/Getty Images Experimental rock juggernauts Sonic Youth are ...

The former Sonic Youth frontwoman previously toured with the folk-rock legend in the early '90s Sadie Bell was a digital news writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She joined PEOPLE in 2023. Her work ...

Back in the day, Sonic Youth, couldn’t buy a good review. In 1982, “Aquarian Weekly” writer Sukey Pett concluded: “There is no way in hell I can recommend this band, or even tolerate being in the same ...

Significant, revolutionary moments in the personal and musical journey of Thurston Moore will be front and center across multiple media at Tara Theatre on Dec. 10. The Sonic Youth co-founder and ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Friday night (Dec. 6) was a pretty big night for Sonic Youth fans on both coasts. In NYC, 3/4 of the band–Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, and Steve Shelley–reunited on stage at The Stone during ...

“Sonic Youth live 20050707” by Andersju is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Friday night, Dec. 6, was a gratifying evening for fans of Sonic Youth, as all four members of the legendary avant-garde ...

Sonic Youth have announced a new reissue of Walls Have Ears, their 2xLP live album that was recorded in 1985 and bootlegged the next year. This is the first time it will be released with the band’s ...

The album bio, penned by Brian Turner, gives much more background on the release: Culled from three 1985 gigs in the UK during a transitional and transcendent time in the band’s story, Sonic Youth’s ...