TAG: sonic youth

Nov01

Vote Yes On Prop 19 :: Twelve Songs About Weed

Tomorrow, California residents will take to the polls and push the lever on a historic ballot initative, Prop 19, that could legalise the sale, possesion and taxation of marijuana for personal use for anyone over the age of 21. And while Prop 19 is currently behind in the polls thanks to a well-funded push by corporate interests (booze, phamacutical) who will win if the measure loses, we at URB are wholey behind the sensible legalization of marijuana. So we’ve assembled a list of some of our favorite songs that pay tribute to Mary Jane. Please enjoy, and pass it around to your friends. If you live in California, PLEASE get out and vote for Prop 19. And if you don’t live in Cali, get out and vote anyways. …MORE

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Oct12

Blacktops and Truck Stops Day 4 – Austin, TX – Sonic Youth Poster Teaser Video

Post originally published in The Uprising Creative on 2010-10-12 08:09:16

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Jan07

L.A. – Win Sonic Youth tickets for tomorrow’s show at Fox Theater (Pomona)!!

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

***** If you don’t see the form below, click here!!!!!!!!!!!

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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 …

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Dec21

Best of ‘09: Indie Heart & Electro Beat (Areti)

Kiss 2009 Goodbye: Highlights through the Lens of Music 

I played Drake’s “Best I Ever Had” in groups of six, saw Wilco back-to-back at The Wiltern, put my right-hand high with Kid Sister, blew a kiss to Ben Gibbard as Hollywood Bowl exploded with fireworks, chilled with A Place to Bury Strangers, worked-out to Miike Snow, beatboxed with Matis, moved to Silver Lake, boogied down at Nightmares on Wax, got blinded by Mandy’s rock, took my clothes off at Phoenix…

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Dec10

Sonic Youth Plan 17th Studio Album x DVD Release

There’s no such thing as “too much of a good thing,” and I am happy to report that one of the best bands in the history of mankind (whoa) is planning another record on the heels of 2009’s The Eternal. Lee Ranaldo hinted to NME that they will “most probably going back into the studio next year.” However, they are still touring the current record and are enjoying that.

“We’re still deeply ensconced in our new record, so we’re gonna play a lot of The Eternal,” Ranaldo told BBC 6 Music, “that’s what we’re having the most fun with.”

I just caught the band last month in Boston, and the experience reminded me that I was born at the wrong time. Oh well, there’s a solution for that, too. The planned DVD release will …

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