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Sonic Youth Clean Up Their Act: Washing Machine

Martin Aston, Music Week, 1995

TRUST A BUNCH of New York art-rockers to contemplate jeopardising their increasing popularity by changing their name to Washing Machine, but that's what Sonic Youth, the Godfathers of America's alternative rock scene, very nearly did.

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