The band will play their first headline show in Dublin in 11 years this Sunday 6 December in Vicar St.

Sonic Youth have suggested they are unlikely to be added to the bill for the Glastonbury Festival in 2010.

Band members Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo have created their own signature Jazzmaster guitars, available from July 1.

Quality chugging from weirdo-rock institution

They're also streaming their new album on their website.

Ahead of Electric Picnic, seminal band Sonic Youth chat to Hot Press.

Their deconstructed noize-pop has personified rock's cutting edge for three decades. But could Sonic Youth finally be mellowing?

Whilst preparing for their Marlay Park slot on 19 August, cult heroes Sonic Youth will be interviewed on Today FM.

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Ten years on from what many critics consider to be the band’s career apex – the era of down ‘n’ Dirty, Butch Vig-facilitated crossover appeal and...

They may be pushing 50 by now, but there’s no budging Kim Gordon or Thurston Moore from their position as seminal overlords of the US garage set.

Anyway, the Dirty album proper hasn’t dated one second: Vig and Wallace had keen radar when it came to knowing just how much to sugarcoat the Sonics’...

Age has not withered them. twenty years after they rose out of the new york underground, Sonic Youth have managed to grow old and stay hardcore. Thurston...

Blooms with a directness and melodicism unheard in their music for years.

'100%' is how it begins. A song about the death of a friend who bit the bullet as it blew a hole through his head.

Sonic Youth (Olympia Theatre, Dublin)

Goodbye 20th Century is a double-CD compilation of various Sonic Youth collaborations and reinterpretations, with a cast including Christian Wolff, John...

For those among you who hate melodies, despise choruses and balk at the very thought of a hook, there's always been Sonic Youth.