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Sonic Youth

American rock group
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Former Senior Editor, The Rocket, Seattle, Washington. Author of She's a Rebel: The History of Women in Rock & Roll.
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Sonic Youth, American avant-garde noise band and highly influential forerunner of the alternative rock groups of the 1980s and ’90s. The principal members were Kim Gordon (b. April 28, 1953, Rochester, New York, U.S.), Lee Ranaldo (b. February 3, 1956, Glen Cove, New York), Thurston Moore (b. July 25, 1958, Coral Gables, Florida), and Steve Shelley (b. June 23, 1962, Midland, Michigan). Moore and Ranaldo met in New York City in the late 1970s, at the height of the postpunk “no wave” movement (dissonant, noisy, experimental music generally created by untrained musicians). Both performed in the guitar orchestras of avant-garde ...(100 of 437 words)

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