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Sonic Youth was one of the most unlikely success stories of underground American rock in the '80s. Where contemporaries R.E.M. and Hüsker Dü were fairly conventional in terms of song structure and melody, Sonic Youth began their career by abandoning any pretense of traditional rock & roll conventions. Borrowing heavily from the free-form noise experimentalism of the Velvet Underground and the Stooges, and melding it with a performance-art aesthetic borrowed from the New York post-punk avant-garde, Sonic Youth redefined what noise meant within rock...
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EW's Indie Rock 25
SXSW | 03.12 - 03.15 | Austin, TX
A Place To Bury Strangers
I'm Not There
I'm Not There | 11.07.07 | New York
Pitchfork Fest | 07.13 - 07.15 | Chicago
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