Tag: Sonic Youth

• Top 40 Over 40.29: 50 Ways to Be Steve Malkmus

  When I started writing this series a number of years ago, I didn’t think I would be including Stephen J. Malkmus in the line up. My last year in college I had 7 roommates, several of whom played Slanted & Enchanted like 75 million times. I burned out on Pavement in the process, mostly through…

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  November 18, 2020

  Music, New Releases, Record Reviews, Top 40 Over 40

  A Tribe Called Quest, Groove Denied, Hossein Alizadeh, Matt Sweeney, Pavement, Qais Essar, Rizwan-Muazzam, Sonic Youth, Stephen J. Malkmus, Taken By Trees, The Low End Theory, Top 40 Over 40, Traditional Techniques, Wes Anderson

• Top 40 Over 40.6: Unplugged Youth

  I can think of few artists more identified with the electric guitar than Thurston Moore.  Unlike the guitar god of classic rock, Jimmy Page, who layered his hard rock records with gobs of acoustic fretted instrumens, the guitar god of post punk / undie music always stayed electric.  The only exception I can think of…

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  May 19, 2012

  Music, Record Reviews, Series of posts, Top 40 Over 40

  Beck, Guitars, Martin, Record Reviews, Sonic Youth, Taylor, Thurston Moore, Top 40 Over 40