Sonic Youth

Their 16th album The Eternal is released in June

Led Zeppelin bassist teams up with the New York legends for dance piece

The Sonic Youth guitarist also lines up music book for release

Alt.rock pioneers play first of three nights as part of the ATP season

They sell out the Daydream Nation yet again

Slint and House Of Love also to perform classic albums

They appear on Future Pilot AKA's latest

Hear ‘Rather Ripped’ now before it hits the shops next week.

A fetish nurse cover shot that could've been lifted from a Jim Thompson paperback. A regular flicker between white noise and mellow, Jefferson Airplane circa Volunteers melody... It could only be the return of Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Steve Shelley and their incumbent guru Jim O'Rourke. Having squared up as aggravating aural elders, the Youth sound rejuvenated as they alternate between Stoogey metal rattlers like "Pattern Recognition" or the fetish-laden "Dripping Dream" and irate hippie singalongs.

Mainstream crossover from 1992 with bonus disc of B-sides and demos