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 ".

Other bands interested in the underground music scene-most notably Sonic Youth-were fans of the album, so much so that Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore invited the band to perform on Sonic Youth's 1990 European tour to promote their latest album, Goo.

Sonic Youth, who were fans of the band, had invited Mudhoney to join them for a tour in the UK in 1989.

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

The book, printed in both English and French, contains all of Watt's song lyrics from the Minutemen era as well as the tour journal he wrote during the Minutemen's only European tour with Black Flag, essays by former SST co-owner Joe Carducci, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, and Blue Öyster Cult lyricist and longtime Watt hero Richard Meltzer, and illustrations by Raymond Pettibon that had been used in all of the Minutemen's album artwork.

Lance Bangs ( born September 8, 1972 ) is an American filmmaker, documentarian, and music video director who has created videos for Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Green Day, the Arcade Fire, the Shins, The Thermals, Belle & Sebastian, Menomena, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, R. E. M., Mike Watt, Death Cab for Cutie, The Black Keys, Kanye West, Odd Future, and Pavement.

He also has a Sonic Machine Factory 15 Watt amp in red that can be seen in Under Great White Northern Lights.

The American musicians who played as Curt Wild's Wylde Ratttz on the soundtrack were The Stooges ' Ron Asheton, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Steve Shelley, Minutemen's Mike Watt, Gumball's Don Fleming, and Mark Arm of Mudhoney.

It is a side project of Sonic Youth members Steve Shelley, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, and Thurston Moore, with Minutemen / fIREHOSE member Mike Watt.

The first was released on New Alliance Records in 1986, and consisted of three tracks: " Into the Groove ( y )" ( a cover of Madonna's hit " Into the Groove ", incorporating snippets of her recording ) and the short " Tuff Titty Rap " on the A side ( both performed by the Sonic Youth members ), and " Burnin ' Up " ( performed by Watt with additional guitars by Greg Ginn ) on the B side.

Cline has also performed and recorded with punk rock bassist Mike Watt in his touring bands The Crew of the Flying Saucer and The Black Gang, as well as with members of Sonic Youth and country music legend Willie Nelson, and in the jazz / punk / improv band Banyan with Watt and ex-Jane's Addiction drummer Stephen Perkins.

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

Uniquely, this game includes levels in which Sonic must ride a mine cart, and a hang glider, the latter under full player control and a reasonable simulation of physics.

Development is spread out across Sonic Team and Dimps with a HD version for the Playstation 3, Xbox 360, and Microsoft Windows and a strict 2D version for the Nintendo 3DS being produced respectively.

The second half of the story plays out in Sonic & Knuckles.

IGN praised the Virtual Console release, giving it a 9 out of 10, and claimed it was the best of the original trilogy of Sonic games for the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis, stating " Sonic 1 we called impressive.

Gameplay was vastly different from the previous four Sonic games, with it playing out on an isometric plane.

" Jeff Gerstmann of GameSpot suggested that " if you're fiending for Sonic the Hedgehog and either don't have or are unwilling to drag out a dusty Genesis from the closet, don't hesitate to give it a shot.

Breedlove's vehicle, renamed the " Sonic Arrow ", was rolled out on the Black Rock Desert for a photo opportunity on October 15, 2007.

While some critics viewed it as a good piece of nostalgia, many others criticized the lack of improvements and the game's more noticeable age, with IGN giving it a score of 3. 5 out of 10, calling it " so fundamentally flawed that it borders on unplayable ", making it the lowest scored Sonic game on the site since Sonic and the Black Knight.

Amy is chasing after Sonic whilst Cream seeks to find her Chao friend Cheese's companion, Chocola, and Big is seeking out his friend, Froggy, with only a newspaper clipping to go by.

Sonic Team's Takashi Iizuka stated in an interview with video game publication 1UP. com that Chao were incorporated into Sonic Adventure " so that new players would be forced to go out, explore the action sections, and find Flickies and things.

The Spirit of America Sonic Arrow, as it was rechristened by Fossett, was rolled out on the Black Rock Desert for a photo opportunity on October 15, 2007.

IGN concluded that " If this is the last Sonic game in these declining Dreamcast years, it's satisfying to know that the DC didn't go out with a bang, but with a sonic boom.

For instance, I got a kick out of " Ultra Sonic " where Sonic finds his now robotic Uncle Chuck.

" Blast to the Past Parts 1 & 2 " and " Doomsday Project " stood out alongside " Ultra Sonic " as the crème of the crop though there were a few episodes here and there that entertained on some level ( even if it was low ).

IGN offered similar sentiments, admiring the attempt to both " breathe life into a series that was running out of steam " and fix the lopsided multiplayer aspect of Sonic 2 and Sonic 3 where Tails would always get lost off-screen, but disliked the actual clunky nature of the " rubber band " physics of the game's " buddy system ", and the lack of variation between acts of each world.

The game received generally positive reviews upon its release ; review aggregator sites GameRankings and Metacritic gave Sonic Advance 2 an 85. 25 % and an 83 out of 100, respectively.

GameSpot reviewer Frank Provo gave the game an 8. 2 out of ten, stating " Sonic Advance 2 is easily the toughest 2D Sonic game ever made ", where as GameSpy reviewer Christian Nutt called Sonic Advance 2 " a solid adventure with some niggling flaws ", and gave the game a 3 out of 5.