SONIC YOUTH LIVE ON NPR'S ALL SONGS CONSIDERED

Make sure you check out Sonic Youth's July 7th concert at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC this weekend on the NPR Web site.

You can download the podcast here.

As with the band's recent show at the United Palace Theatre in Washington Heights, which was amazing by the way, the group rang in their emancipation from the major label machine with a strong, noisy set heavy on rare nuggets from their past and the majority of their stellar new album, The Eternal.

Here is the set list:

Main set:
Tom Violence
Leaky Lifeboat (For Gregory Corso)
Sacred Trickster
No Way
What We Know
Poison Arrow
Anti-Orgasm
Hey Joni
Malibu Gas Station
Calming the Snake
Walkin Blue
Massage the History
White Cross


First Encore:
Antenna
Shadow of a Doubt


Second Encore:
Thunderclap for Bobby Pyn
Death Valley '69


Sonic Youth will be touring the country throughout the summer before heading to Europe in the fall.

For more information, check out their informative Facebook site at www.facebook.com/sonicyouth or their official site at www.sonicyouth.com.

"Hey Joni" from the SoHo Apple Store June 9, 2009:


Live in Sweden, May 2009:


Sonic Youth performing "Antenna" on a recent episode of Later...With Jools Holland.