there’s a perfect sociocultural congruence between [Sonic Youth] as individuals and their audience: that burgeoning of a vast...
there’s a perfect sociocultural congruence between [Sonic Youth] as individuals and their audience: that burgeoning of a vast college educated middle class audience for “alternative rock” in the 80s and 90s: graduates wanting something a little bit artier and recherche than pop, metal or hardcore, but nothing too foreboding or intimidating: SY fitted the bill perfectly: indeed, Moore and Gordon are the mirror image of their audience: nice, vaguely bohemian/arty middle class urban professionals: Gordon’s links to the NY artworld very symptomatic: and of course art too became an attractive and materially rewarding profession for middle class hipsters in the 90s….