Such is the consistency and variety of their extensive catalogue, it's almost impossible to make a definitive best Sonic ...

Creedence Clearwater Revival sung a song about it and Sonic Youth used the phrase for one of their early albums. But it’s also difficult to understate the appeal of, well, a good moon on the rise — or ...

“Bad Moon Rising” is one of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s best-known songs today. When the band released it in April 1969, the track announced their second album of the year. It also ...

As for the song’s initial success? Well, it stands to reason that audiences in the 1960s would resonate with “Bad Moon Rising.” After all, John Fogerty based it on how people talked back then.

Sonic Youth were a staple of the New York underground punk-rock scene until they broke up in 2011, shortly after key members Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore announced they were getting a divorce ...

Sonic Youth, Bad Moon Rising (1985) "This is where my fandom began to take hold and explode in just a completely uncouth way. I had heard their earlier records, ...

By our third album, Bad Moon Rising, there was a window into actually making chords happen. There were actual fingered chords. I think it came from seeing and hearing this band called the Feelies ...

Bad Moon Rising [1985] There’s something deeply thrilling about the first time hearing “I Love Her All The Time,” a seven-plus minute exercise in fusing avant-garde minimalism, sound-collage ...

Gordon got the name for this bracing early Sonic Youth track — off the smoldering 1985 LP “Bad Moon Rising,” one of my favorites — from an Ed Ruscha painting that, as Gordon put it in her ...

On Sonic Youth’s bracing 1985 album, “Bad Moon Rising,” when she bellowed, “Support the power of women,” she was almost daring the listener to disagree.

The cover to Sonic Youth’s masterful breakthrough album, ‘Bad Moon Rising’ (Blast First/Homestead Records) As the house lights came on, Paul Smith remembers the room being “half-empty.

Sonic Youth, "Expressway to Yr. Skull (Radio Edit)" (Sonic Youth Archive) ... Bad Moon Rising, EVOL, and the Sonic Youth mini album, plus non-LP songs such as the scathing "Kill Yr.