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Confusion Is Next : The Sonic Youth Story
Confusion Is Next The Sonic Youth Story
Author: Alec Foege
"Alternative" rock has now gone mainstream, yeah, yeah, Lollapalooza is captivating a generation, and Nirvana sells millions of albums, but before all of this in-yr-face stuff there was Sonic Youth. — Sonic Youth are the floorboards of the current fertile musical era in which underground culture has, like it or not, become the mainstream. Conf...  more » boasts exclusive interviews with the band members and dozens of other scene-sters, including members of the Beastie Boys, Pavement, and fIREHOSE, and art iconoclasts like Mike Kelley, Lydia Lunch, and Glenn Branca.

Sonic Youth. They hold equal weight in the champagne SoHo galleries, the sleazy fashion world, and the legendary punk club hovels across the planet. Here is Sonic Youth's convoluted, twisted, and bashed journey, from the band's early days in the post-punk East Village to their current reign as templates of the indie scene, to their studio time recording their latest album, Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star. Confusion Is Next sets both the record and the CD straight.
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ISBN-13: 9780312113698
ISBN-10: 0312113692
Publication Date: 10/15/1994
Pages: 274
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Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Book Type: Paperback
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Essential reading material for Sonic Youth fans! "Confusion is Next" chronicles the band's journey from their earliest days up to 1994 with obscure photos, a complete discography of the bands releases (including rare material you didn't even know existed) and side projects, interviews with the entire band and everyone who was anyone in the early New York punk scene, and features a foreword by Thurston Moore. This isn't one of those rediculous fan books that culls basic info from sources you could have gone to yourself - this is an extensive piece of music journalism that Sonic Youth aficionados should not go without.


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