The new Sonic Youth album, The Eternal, leaked this week. Yesterday, our own Aaron Leitko got heartfelt and nostalgic about actually paying for it and listening to it via Matador's pretty sweet buy-early program.
Full Disclosure: I have nothing to say about the album. I have not heard the album. I don't want the crummy leak [...]

In 1995 my mother graciously agreed to take me to The Delta Center, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to see R.E.M. Sonic Youth opened this show, playing all twenty-minutes of "Diamond Sea" and a bunch of other stuff from its then-forthcoming album Washing Machine. That music was a big deal for me–it bridged the jam [...]