Books like Goodbye 20th Century: A Biography of Sonic Youth

"As Goodbye 20th Century amply demonstrates, anyone who thinks the Sonic Youth story is merely about music doesn't know the whole of it. Their saga is also the tale of the emergence of an alternative arts scene: a world of underground films and comics, conceptual art, experimental music, even fashion." "The Sonic Youth story is also a chronicle of the rise - and fall - of New York City as a cultural mecca. And, last but far from least, it is a love story - the tale of two people, Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon, who arrived in New York City at the tall end of the '70s, fell in love, formed a band, got married, and, along the way, helped alter the sound of rock." In Goodbye 20th Century, David Browne delivers the definitive biography of Sonic Youth, an account based on extensive research; new, exclusive interviews with the band and with those who have worked with them; and unprecedented access to unreleased recordings and documents.