For the first time since the band hung it up in 2011, SPIN spoke to all four members of Sonic Youth, as well as Pettibon himself, about how one of the koolest albums ever made was conceived, ...

A cursory look around the Internet turns up little Sonic Youth–inspired fan fiction, so let’s invent some. Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon as battling vampires, say, re-enacting millennia’s worth of ...

Sonic Youth’s sixth proper full-length remains arguably their most culturally (rather than critically) beloved album — whose iconic Raymond Pettibon cover may be surpassing Sgt. Pepper’s as the most ...

Shelley: A lot of the story behind “Tunic” is inspired by the movie Superstar by Todd Haynes that he made with Barbie dolls. That was a big movie for us. You couldn’t see it legally. Todd would screen ...