Blog: Merry Swankster

The wee small hours of this morning saw the digital dispersal of the first heard track from the next Sonic Youth record, the Kim Gordon-centric "Sacred Trickster." Given the levels of anticipation for that LP around MS HQ, this has inflamed an already raging itch to hear the thing. Sonic Youth have had an improbably stellar late-career renaissance in the 00s, and with perpetually grinning Pavement bassist Mark Ibold now installed as a full-fledged recording member, there's very little reason to believe the Golden Age of their golden years won't continue, unabated. So, as a salve for our [...]

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