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Sonic Youth Go Guitar Crazy On Lucky 13th Release

Robert Gordon, Rolling Stone, 13 July 1995

WHAT'S A nice downtown New York band like Sonic Youth doing in Memphis, Tenn.? Recording their next art-damage album, of course, and immersing themselves in local flavor. "Once we decided to leave New York, it could have been anywhere," says guitarist and vocalist Thurston Moore. "But we've always been interested in Memphis music and history, and we wanted to see it."

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