"I've been calling it a cinematic mix tape," Shelley explains. The evening involves Shelley presenting various film clips of the band with a pair of guests joining him. We still talk on email and Lee and I still run a Sonic Youth studio here in Hoboken."īy movies, he's referring to touring film series that began in October in celebration of the 30th anniversary of "Daydream Nation" and comes to the Byrd Theatre this week. I'd just say we're not active, you know? I feel like I'm still busy with the band between these movies, the archives, reissues and what not. "I don't really say anything," Shelley says, laughing. She wrote a book and he moved to London with his new girlfriend.īut drummer Steve Shelley remains measured with his words when asked if the band has hung up its effects pedals for good. Soon afterward the group split in the wake of the somewhat public divorce of guitarist Thurston Moore and bassist Kim Gordon. Sonic Youth played Richmond several times over its history, with its farewell tour stopping at the National in 2011. That's what happened to influential noise-rock band, Sonic Youth, with one of its most beloved and critically acclaimed albums, "Daydream Nation" from 1988.Įmerging from the no wave art rock scene of downtown New York, the band became known over three decades as a bastion of feedback-drenched integrity particularly within indie rock circles, even though it spent much of that time on Geffen, a major label. A Grammy nod is nice and everything, but I'd say it's even more impressive when your album is chosen by the Library of Congress to be preserved in the National Recording Registry as "culturally important."
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