SONIC YOUTH

SONIC YOUTH (1981). Born against the dawn of the age of Ronald Reagan, Sonic Youth lived in New York City and created a sound that pushed rock music through the avant-garde wringer. Their sound was post-Beat, post-Warhol, post-Punk Rock, post-hardcore (“Black Flag growing their hair out”), post-No Wave. Their music was different because they were different; schooled in the aesthetics of pop music and art, Sonic Youth combined their punk education with an intense experimentation that changed…