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| 4 by Rolling Stone |
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| n/a by www.stylusmagazine.com |
or a lot of people, Sonic Youth are New York City in the same way that, once upon a scene, The Velvet Underground were New York City. And like the VU, the Youth are consummate, inveterate bullshitters... |
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| n/a by www.avclub.com |
Even back in the days of EVOL, what set Sonic Youth apart from their hardcore and post-hardcore peers was an innate sense of sophistication that had them surrounding aggressive noise with lyrical wash... |
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| n/a by neumu.net |
When I was in high school, I thought all my favorite bands were from the same
city. I wasn't sure where it was; I just knew all the cool bands — Sonic Youth, The Pixies, The Replaceme... |
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| n/a by www.prefixmag.com |
There's an "A" word that's a much worse slur than "asshole" in some outré rock circles: accessibility. In this camp, esoteric equals awesome. If Radiohead were to sudden... |
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| n/a by www.slantmagazine.com |
ather Ripped, the gagillionth studio album from veteran noise-rockers Sonic Youth, continues with the mellow, poppy vibes the band started emphasizing on 2002's Murray Street. There's hardly a... |
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| n/a by arts.guardian.co.uk |
Having pioneered avant-grunge and subterranean punk-garde, Rather Ripped sees Sonic Youth reinventing themselves again. This is as close to a pop album as they've recorded. Discernible influences ... |
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| n/a by www.nytimes.com |
"Rather Ripped" (Geffen)Sonic Youth is 25, and its 20th album appears tomorrow. You may forget that math, or you may fixate on it. What was Sonic Youth's past, in larger terms, anyway? Wha... |
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| n/a by thephoenix.com |
We’re allowed to like albums about getting old but never being old, so I don’t know why this one works — SY’s most openly “mature” disc, possibly their best since ’95’s Washing Machine, maybe even the... |
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| n/a by www.cokemachineglow.com |
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| n/a by uk.launch.yahoo.com |
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
(Thursday June 8, 2006 4:22 PM
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Released on 05/06/06
Label: Geffen
Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore still look unbelievably spry - remarkably so, in fact, for a c... |
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| n/a by www.playlouder.com |
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| n/a by Billboard |
Fifteen albums in, Sonic Youth remains one of the most reliable, uncompromising rock acts of its generation. On the heels of 2002's delightful but meandering "Murray Street" and 2004's... |
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| n/a by www.nowtoronto.com |
What's to say about Sonic Youth that hasn't already been rehashed and recycled several times over? They're real good? Mucho importante? Way-y-y influential? With Rather Ripped they continu... |
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| n/a by www.shakingthrough.net |
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| n/a by Pitchfork Media |
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| n/a by Popmatters |
Sonic Youth’s tenure on Geffen Records has been a high-profile case of the intersection between art and commerce… or, perhaps more interesting, the intersection between the avant garde and... |
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| n/a by www.dustedmagazine.com |
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| n/a by www.eonline.com |
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| n/a by www.tinymixtapes.com |
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