Sonic Youth Live in the Studio

To promote their just-released album The Eternal (Matador Records) Sonic Youth performed a series of songs from the new album for PitchforkTV. Watch the band below in all their atonal glory

Sonic Youth Announce Tour Dates

Tour dates in support of Sonic Youth's upcoming album The Eternal have been announced. This will be the band's first album released through Matador Records

The tour gets underway June 28 in Chicago, and will wind through the Midwest and South before heading to the West Coast, where the band will finish up the 21-city trek Aug. 2 in Oakland, CA.

June 2009

28 - Chicago, IL - Vic Theater
29 - Royal Oak, MI - Royal Oak Music Theatre

July 2009
2 - Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory
3 - New York, NY - United Palace Theatre
6 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
8 - Richmond, VA - The National
10 - Knoxville, TN - Bijou Theater
11 - Nashville, TN - War Memorial
12 - Birmingham, AL - Sloss Furnaces
13 - Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse
15 - Dallas, TX - House of Blues
16 - Tulsa, OK - Cain's Ballroom
18 - Kansas City, MO - Uptown Theater
20 - Milwaukee, WI - Turner Hall
21 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
23 - Boise, ID - Knitting Factory
25 - Seattle, WA - Capitol Hill Block Party
28 - Portland, OR - Roseland Ballroom
30 - Salt Lake City, UT - Twilight Music Fest
31 - Denver, CO - Ogden Theater

August 2009
2 - Oakland, CA - Fox Theater