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Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025: Tate Modern’s cultural shapeshifting takes the art prize

We sing the praises of Tate Modern for celebrating the artists that are drawn to other worlds

Wallpaper

“Every time I play with a session musician, they’re like, ‘What are you doing? What chords are you playing? That chord doesn’t even exist!’” Why Gen Z guitar star Beabadoobee’s chords have confused her fellow guitarists – but won over Rick Rubin

Beabadoobee, aka Beatrice Laus, recently landed a number one album in her native UK, but her fondness for My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth and Elliott Smith has spawned a guitar style that has confounded her fellow players

Guitar World

Ben Lee: ‘My whole career is chasing the dragon of opening for Sonic Youth’

The singer-songwriter shares his most cringeworthy celebrity run-in, his theory about Nick Cave and his love for Real Housewives

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“I’m not really a fan of Taylor Swift. When it comes to pop icons, I would choose Billie Eilish.” Ex-Sonic Youth alt. rock icon Kim Gordon risks the wrath of the Swifties, admits “I couldn’t tell you what her music sounded like”

Kim Gordon "couldn’t tell you" what Taylor Swift's music sounds like

Louder

“I can’t get into somebody else’s mind and decide what their problem is.” Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna was close friends with Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, but she still doesn't know why Courtney Love hated her so much

Kathleen Hanna on that one-sided 'feud' with Courtney Love

Louder

“He was always right, even when he was wrong.” Thurston Moore and PJ Harvey share memories of their friend Steve Albini

Thurston Moore and PJ Harvey add to the wealth of tributes saluting the life and legacy of the late Steve Albini

Louder

“I note the passing of old friend Steve Albini – certainly gone too soon”: Lee Ranaldo remembers the time Steve Albini made Sonic Youth a guitar with 16 high E-strings –and an inlaid appendage

The alt rock icon has recalled the producer and guitarist’s ultimate in-joke custom guitar build

Guitar World

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“He expressed being upset by my horrible remix, which made me even more proud of it!” Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore once mixed a quote from Oasis' Noel Gallagher into a Blur song purely to annoy bassist Alex James, a petty gesture we can all respect

Blur + Oasis x Sonic Youth = one hell of a racket if Thurston Moore's remix of Essex Dogs is anything to go by

Louder

“I was trying to do the ultimate guitar solo”: Lou Reed once recorded a double album consisting solely of guitar feedback – but his label took it off sale after three weeks

Metal Music Machine nearly cost Reed his reputation… over the years, it became a source of inspiration for Sonic Youth and Neil Young

Guitar World

“I view everything from the pick to the speaker as my instrument”: Meet John Frusciante favorite Anthony Pirog – the boundary breaking guitarist who’s jamming jazz, punk and fusion with Fugazi’s rhythm section

The D.C. virtuoso has joined forces with his heroes as The Messthetics

Guitar World

“Drugs were everywhere in New York. Everybody knew at least five people who had OD’d. I always learned from other people’s mistakes”: the unlikely rise and sudden fall of White Zombie

White Zombie’s final album Astro-Creep: 2000 was released on this day in1995. Rob Zombie looks back on the band’s unlikely success

Metal Hammer

“I don’t know that much about folk music, except that most of it bores me to tears”: the incredible life of Michael Chapman, the greatest singer-songwriter the world never knew about

The life and times of Michael Chapman, the cult singer and guitarist beloved of David Bowie, Elton John and Sonic Youth

Louder

Kim Gordon Curates Influential Films For Galerie Film Club

Discover Kim Gordon's curated film list for Galerie film club, showcasing her eclectic tastes and artistic sensibilities.

Top News

Kim Gordon: The Collective review – so close to the edge it sometimes falls off

The former Sonic Youth bassist’s follow-up to her acclaimed solo debut has some great moments, but tips over into a barrage of distortion

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"Kim Gordon has no interest in making music for the faint-hearted": with The Collective, Sonic Youth's iconic former vocalist/bassist throws expectations out the window in thrilling fashion

Kim Gordon's second solo album is challenging, claustrophobic and an absolute triumph

Louder

Kim Gordon announces UK shows, extends US and European tours, shares video for new single Psychedelic Orgasm

Ahead of the release of her second solo album The Collective, Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth) adds new gigs, drops new video

Metal Hammer

"I still have very vivid images of him laughing, smiling, and goofing around": Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon remembers Nirvana's Kurt Cobain

Kim Gordon remembers her friend Kurt Cobain, as the 30th anniversary of his death nears

The Guardian - UK

‘I’m journalling, just like Taylor Swift’: Kim Gordon on TikTok, motherhood and her revealing new album

The alt rock pioneer has earned social media adoration for her trap-infused new song Bye Bye. Now she’s following it up with a ‘realistic’ new record , as well as a collection of her late brother’s writing

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What Hi-Fi?

The 11 best Record Store Day 2024 releases – Gorillaz, Pearl Jam, Sonic Youth and more

Record Store Day returns for 2024 – here are the special edition albums we think you should look out for during the event.

Guitar World

“I’ve always picked up my dad’s guitars, but I wasn’t that serious about it. Then I realized it was natural to me – it was so deep in my soul I didn’t have a choice”: Thurston Moore loved her demos. Now Devon Ross is journeying from actor to guitarist

Inspired by ‘60s pop and ’90s alt-rock alike, the Fender Mustang-toting Irma Vep star – and daughter of Lenny Kravitz guitarist Craig Ross – brought her debut EP to fruition with help from the Sonic Youth icon

Louder

"Mascara, lip mask, eye mask, ear plugs, travel shampoo, conditioner": Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon to release new solo album The Collective, shares disorienting new track Bye Bye

Sonic Youth vocalist/guitarist Kim Gordon announces the arrival of her second solo album, The Collective, shares opener Bye Bye featuring some rather bizarre lyrics

The Guardian - UK

Worried about naming your baby? Don’t be

Whether you settle on Mathilda, Deke or Ebenezer, it’s bound to be exactly the right name. My own son is living proof, writes Zoe Williams

MusicRadar

“I really wanted to be accepted in that purist world of punk and hardcore. You plug your guitar in and boom! Instead we had 10 guitars... all broken and rejigged”: Thurston Moore on Sonic Youth, taming feedback and musical epiphanies

Reflecting on a life of warping electric guitar norms, Moore discusses punk's duality, guitar technique, environmental sound, and taking his sound beyond the boundary

Reason

Xi Jinping's in the House

Plus: AKs in the MRI room, protesters at Chuck Schumer's house, Sonic Youth takes on Javier Milei, and more...

Louder

"We had an A&R person at Geffen saying, 'You guys can be the Pink Floyd of the underground.' I was, like, No, we can’t." Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore remembers Nirvana and 'The Year That Punk Broke'

Thurston Moore: "When I was putting this book together my agent basically said, Give me your Kurt chapter"

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