Sonic Youth

USA, 1981–2011

New York's guitar-retuning institution — Daydream Nation turned no wave dissonance into rock canon, and thirty years of screwdrivers under strings made noise a language.

Influenced by

• Glenn Branca
• The Velvet Underground
• The Stooges

Influenced

• Neutral Milk Hotel
• Pavement
• Nirvana
• My Bloody Valentine
• Swervedriver
• Placebo
• Bloc Party
• Silversun Pickups
• Beck
• Hole