My influences are Big Black, Sonic Youth, and Fleetwood Mac " to which guitarist Eric Erlandson replied.

Influenced by the sounds and style of no wave and noise rock bands, Love convinced Sonic Youth bassist Kim Gordon to produce Hole's first studio album.

In the initial advertisement placed by Love which resulted in Hole's formation, she cited Fleetwood Mac, Sonic Youth, and Big Black as her three major musical influences.

In 1990, he appeared on " Kool Thing ", a song by the alternative rock band Sonic Youth, and along with Flavor Flav, he sang on George Clinton's song " Tweakin '", which appears on his 1989 album The Cinderella Theory.

During this time, he was romantically involved with Kim Gordon, who would later go on to form Sonic Youth.

As a result, in part, of the popular and commercial resurgence of punk in the late 1980s and after, with the growing popularity of such bands as Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Fugazi, Bikini Kill, Green Day and The Offspring, a number of other punk zines have appeared, such as Punk Planet, Razorcake, Tail Spins, Sobriquet, Profane Existence and Slug and Lettuce.

* Jason Knuth the subject of the dedication of Silver Session for Jason Knuth, a 1998 EP by Sonic Youth

The album, originally titled To Nancy, with Love, featured rock performers such as Calexico, Sonic Youth, U2, Pulp's Jarvis Cocker, Steven Van Zandt, Jon Spencer, and Pete Yorn, who all cited Sinatra as an influence.

In 2004, Sonic Youth released an album called Hidros 3 ( to Patti Smith ).

As American alternative bands like Sonic Youth, which had grown out of the No Wave scene, and Boston's Pixies started to gain larger audiences, major labels sought to capitalize on the underground market that had been sustained by hardcore punk for years.

Dim Stars featured guitarist Thurston Moore and drummer Steve Shelley from Sonic Youth, Gumball's guitarist Don Fleming, and Robert Quine.

In the 1980s and 1990s, The Urinals, Manic Street Preachers, The Minutemen, Sonic Youth, and R. E. M., expressed a fondness for the group.

For example, Elvis Costello recorded a version of Ono's song " Walking on Thin Ice ," the B-52's who drew from her early recordings covered " Don't Worry, Kyoko ( Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow )" ( shortening the title to " Don't Worry ") and Sonic Youth included a performance of Ono's early conceptual " Voice Piece for Soprano " in their experimental album SYR4: Goodbye 20th century.

Guests including Bette Midler, Paul Simon and his son Harper, and principal members of Sonic Youth interpreted her songs in their own styles.

Bands like the Pixies, R. E. M., The Replacements, Sonic Youth, XTC, The Smiths, etc.

** Lee Ranaldo, American musician ( Sonic Youth )

The Stone Roses's influences included garage rock, Northern soul, punk rock, and artists such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, The Byrds, Johnny Marr, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Sonic Youth, Sex Pistols and The Clash.

Alternative rock bands from the Northeastern United States, including Sonic Youth, Pixies, and Dinosaur Jr., are important influences on the genre.

Through their patronage of Seattle bands, Sonic Youth " inadvertently nurtured " the grunge scene, and reinforced the fiercely independent attitudes of its musicians.

In the meantime, the label continued to sign a handful of established music icons, including: Elton John, Irene Cara, Cher, Don Henley, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Peter Gabriel, Jennifer Holliday and Sonic Youth.

Van Vliet's influence on post – punk bands was demonstrated by Magazine's recording of " I Love You You Big Dummy " in 1978 and the tribute album Fast ' n ' Bulbous-A Tribute to Captain Beefheart in 1988, featuring the likes of artists such as the Dog Faced Hermans, The Scientists, The Membranes, Simon Fisher Turner, That Petrol Emotion, the Primevals, The Mock Turtles, XTC, and Sonic Youth, who included a cover of Beefheart's " Electricity " as a bonus track on the deluxe edition of their 1988 album Daydream Nation.

*" Pacific Coast Highway ", a song from Sister ( Sonic Youth album )

In 1982, Branca launched his own record label, Neutral Records, releasing Y Pants ' LP and the first few records by New York noise rockers Sonic Youth.

Early members of his group included Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, Page Hamilton of Helmet, and several members of Swans including Michael Gira and Dan Braun.

Gordon, along with the rest of Sonic Youth, made an appearance in the television series Gossip Girl and performed an acoustic version of the song " Starpower ".

Allmusic identifies indie rock as including a number of styles that are: " too sensitive and melancholy ; too soft and delicate ; too dreamy and hypnotic ; too personal and intimately revealing in its lyrics ; too low-fidelity and low-budget in its production ; too angular in its melodies and riffs ; too raw, skronky and abrasive, wrapped in too many sheets of Sonic Youth / Dinosaur Jr ./ Pixies / Jesus & Mary Chain-style guitar noise ; too oblique and fractured in its song structures ; too influenced by experimental or otherwise unpopular musical styles.

Mindful that garnering the attention of the American mainstream music press was difficult for all but the largest indie label, Pavitt and Ponemen took inspiration from alternative bands like Sonic Youth, Butthole Surfers, and Dinosaur Jr. and sought to publicize the label via the British music press.

As many of the bands on the label sought to expand beyond the limitations of the hardcore genre, SST released many key albums that were instrumental in the development of American alternative rock, including releases by the Minutemen, Hüsker Dü, the Meat Puppets, Sonic Youth, and Dinosaur Jr. After a peak release schedule in the late 1980s, SST began venturing into jazz releases.

The label replaced these bands with new signings Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr, and Bad Brains.

Sonic Youth mentioned SST often in interviews and in music writer Michael Azerrad's estimation, " seemed to be actively campaigning to get signed to the indie powerhouse "; in turn, Sonic Youth was instrumental in getting SST to sign Dinosaur Jr. Gerard Cosloy, owner of Dinosaur Jr's previous label Homestead Records, said, " SST was the label everyone wanted to be on.

But common musical threads between the different bands include garage rock, ' 60s psych, and American indie bands like Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr.

At one of their shows, the New York-based alternative rock band Sonic Youth was at first unimpressed by the first Dinosaur performance they saw, but after watching them play several months later, approached the band declaring themselves as fans.

'" Sonic Youth invited Dinosaur to join them on tour in the American Northeast and northern Midwest in September 1986.

Dinosaur recorded much of their second album You're Living All Over Me with Sonic Youth engineer Wharton Tiers in New York.

The band's first two records were indebted to classic hard rock influenced by Led Zeppelin and also encompassed slower paced psychedelic rock, space rock, and noise pop influences from bands such as The Verve, Loop, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr and The Jesus and Mary Chain.

While Sonic Youth is the focus of the documentary, the film also gives attention to Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr., Babes in Toyland, Gumball and The Ramones.

Early American alternative rock bands like Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr., who mixed rock song structures with guitar distortion, were immediate forerunners.

The label also branched out into international releases, issuing albums ( under license ) by overseas bands such as Sonic Youth, Mudhoney, Dinosaur Junior and Big Black.

Thefts of vintage Jazzmasters from Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr. and The Raveonettes in recent years illustrate this.

" A 2009 Vice Records mix lists the following songs Bloc Party are influenced by: Eagle Boston's " Wild Wild Ost ", Pylon's " Working Is No Problem ", Delta 5's " Mind Your Own Business ", John Foxx's " Underpass ", Prince's " I Would Die 4 U " ( also covered live ), Sonic Youth's " Youth Against Fascism ", Dinosaur Jr .' s " Freak Scene ", La Roux's " Quicksand ( Nightrunners Edit )", and Bruce Springsteen's " 57 Channels ( And Nothin ' On )".

In April 2004, Sonic Youth played a show at John Green Hall on the Smith College campus in Northampton MA with J Mascis and Sebadoh as the opening acts and the anticipation was that the two would reunite for a few Dinosaur Jr. songs.

In late 2007 Mel presented and produced the 2nd Producer Series for Triple J, which featured: Steve Albini ( Nirvana, PJ Harvey, Joanna Newsom ), Michael Beinhorn ( Hole, Marlilyn Manson, The Bronx ), Trina Shoemaker ( Queens Of The Stoneage, Something For Kate ), Jim Abbiss ( Arctic Monkeys, Kasabian ), Tony Cohen ( Nick Cave, Beasts of Bourbon ), Squeak E Clean ( Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Ben Lee ), Ewan Pearson ( The Rapture ), Dave Catching ( Rancho De La Luna-The Desert Sessions ) Tim Whitten ( Architecture In Helsinki, The Panics ) and John Agnello ( Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth, The Living End ).

The band included Mike Watt of the Minutemen, J. Mascis of Dinosaur Jr., Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, and Mark Arm of Mudhoney.

Paul Smith is probably best known as the founder and manager of Blast First, the British alternative record label that released artists such as Sonic Youth, the Butthole Surfers, Big Black and Dinosaur Jr. in the UK.

Upon embarking on a tour with his backing band Crazy Horse, the song took on new life in a rock arrangement, punctuated by Young's guitar solos that would go on to inspire players of the proto-grunge scene, including Sonic Youth, The Meat Puppets, Pixies and Dinosaur Jr.