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Reconsidering Sonic Youth’s ‘Confusion Is Sex’ at 40 Years Old

/ 15 May 2023

Sonic Youth’s Confusion Is Sex is impressively raw and uncompromising, thrilling and terrifying as a walk through the Lower East Side in the early 1980s.

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The Stooges Remained Musically Powerful on the Verge of Total Collapse

Nick Soulsby

/ 20 September 2021

These recordings still carry that talismanic “lost album” energy that makes one wonder what a fit and healthy Stooges might have done next.

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The Stooges Kick Against the Pricks All the Way Down Into Their Grave

Nick Soulsby

/ 17 November 2020

Cherry Red's new box set finds Iggy Pop and the Stooges on their final death trip, falling apart for audiences between September 1973 and February 1974.