Alternative icons, Sonic Youth, are playing The Fox Theater in Pomona! *Drool.* You can win two tickets by filling out the form below:
*Winners will be contacted via email & announced at 3pm Friday January 8th. You must be in the greater Los Angeles area & able to attend the show tomorrow in Pomona. Not one for contests? You can still buy tickets here: http://goldenvoice.com/shows/details/?id=24659

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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 Husker Du 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 & roll. Sonic Youth rarely rocked, though they were inspired directly by hardcore punk, post-punk, and no wave. Instead, their dissonance, feedback, and alternate tunings created a new sonic landscape, one that redefined what rock guitar could do. Their trio of independent late-’80s records — EVOL, Sister, Daydream Nation — became touchstones for a generation of indie rockers who either replicated the noise or reinterpreted it in a more palatable setting. As their career progressed, Sonic Youth grew more palatable as well, as their more free-form songs began to feel like compositions and their shorter works began to rock harder. During the ’90s, most American indie bands, and many British underground bands, displayed a heavy debt to Sonic Youth, and the group itself had become a popular cult band, with each of its albums charting in the Top 100.

This is the new album called The Eternal. It is their 15th studio album.

http://www.sonicyouth.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Youth

Buy tickets to the show here: http://goldenvoice.com/shows/details/?id=24659

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