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Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth is an American experimental rock group formed in New York in 1981. The four permanent members of Sonic Youth were Thurston Moore (vocals and guitar), Lee Ranaldo (vocals and guitar), Kim Gordon (vocals, bass, guitar), and—from 1985—Steve Shelley (drums). Starting their creative path within the No Wave direction, the group subsequently moved to work in a wide stylistic range, keeping loyalty to the 'noise' aesthetics of The Velvet Underground and The Stooges, but enriching it with elements of art performance, post-punk, and the avant-garde. A special place in the group's work was occupied by experiments with guitar sound, during which it discovered new possibilities for using dissonant structures and feedback. The work of Sonic Youth had a significant influence on the development of alternative rock.