Blog: State Magazine

Sonic Youth. These days the name holds an awkward sense of irony when you consider that the band's members are now in their 50s. But thankfully this milestone hasn't affected the quality of their end product; think of their output over the past decade (Murray Street, Sonic Nurse, Rather Ripped and this year's excellent The Eternal ) and you realise this is a group who still bubble with creativity. Then couple this effervescent inventiveness with an unyielding zeal to explore uncharted territories and it's immediately obvious why Sonic Youth have remained at the forefront of alternative music [...]