For our October 2018 session we celebrate the 30th anniversary of Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation!
Daydream Nation is a great uniter: You’d be hard pressed to find many fans of indie rock who don’t have some love for this record. That’s partly because this record is great, sure—that’s one boring reason—but it’s also because this record is one of a handful that helped shape the notion of what American indie rock can potentially mean. It’s almost a tautology: Indie fans love Daydream Nation because loving stuff like Daydream Nation is part of how we define what indie fans are.
Not that there wasn’t plenty of underground music in the U.S. before this album’s 1988 release—hardcore punk, high-art avant garde, quirky college rock, DIY, weirdo regional scenes. But the notion that all those Reagan-era discontents might be in the same boat—a new Alternative Nation just beginning to converge—hadn’t yet been fully articulated. Sonic Youth sensed that convergence in the making, and they were pretty sure it had something to do with Dinosaur Jr.: “A new aesthetic of youth culture,” Thurston Moore called it in Matthew Stearns’ 33 1/3 book about the album, “wherein anger and distaste, attributes associated with punk energy, were coolly replaced by head-in-the-clouds outer limits brilliance.”
Join us at one of our album listening sessions around the world to experience Sonic Youth in a way you never have before.
Buy the album here.
Read more: Album Of The Month – Sonic Youth ‘Daydream Nation’
Listen: Sonic Youth ‘Daydream Nation’ Musical Lead Up Playlist
Listen: Sonic Youth ‘Daydream Nation’ Legacy Playlist
Miami
Date and Time: Sunday October 21st 2018 5:00pm – 8:00pm
Venue
Sweat Records, 5505 NE 2nd Ave, Miami, FL 33137
Tickets
$6 in advance soon
Presenter
Lauren Reskin – Sweat Records
Audio Menu
Audio Note T1 Turntable, Audio Note 1Q1 cartridge, Audio Note M2 Phono Preamplifier, Audio Note Conqueror SET Amplifier, Deja Vu Audio Custom Genoa Vintage Speakers, Audio Note Lexus Cables
