Word: sonic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SONIC YOUTH'S LATEST ALBUM, Dirty, probably won't be very popular at Harvard. It's brash. It's loud. It's unconventional. And it sounds nothing like Steve Miller, James Taylor...
...bland tastes aside, Dirty is one the best things to happen to music this year. The disc features fifteen songs of raw energy, biting political commentary and visceral passion captured superbly by Butch Vig, the producer of Nirvana's last album. It ranks with Daydream Nation as one of Sonic Youth's best releases...
...next song, "Sugar Kane," alternates Sonic Youth's trademark minor up-down chord progression with guitar free-for-alls--complete with requisite distortion and ample feedback. Moore's voice complements it all well...
Sitting in his studio in Devon, Parker, 55, speaks passionately about his work. "It's really miraculous when you think about it," he says, taking a shiny black record from its jacket. "These little shellac disks are like time capsules." He marvels at the amount of sonic information that was originally captured on the old records -- far more than the primitive playback techniques of the time were able to reproduce...
PEOPLE IN PARTS OF NEVADA AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HAVE noticed the loud sonic booms and strange pulsing noises for months. Seismologists at Caltech have been picking up echoes of extremely fast overflights heading east from Los Angeles. Now Royal Air Force radar technicians at the NATO base in Machrihanish, Scotland, have identified the cause of it all. Officially, the U.S. Air Force is mum. But insiders say Lockheed has been test-flying AURORA, the top-secret hypersonic U.S. spy plane, code-named "Senior Citizen," which can fly at speeds exceeding 4,000 m.p.h. That's about 90 min. from Washington...