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Sonic Youth is a Indie rock and Rap act. Their sound grew out of Be Your Own Pet, The Pop Group, Anthology of American Folk Music, Untouchables and Eraserheads. Those roots explain a lot about how Sonic Youth arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Dinosaur Jr., Pixies, This Heat, Yo La Tengo and Polvo, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Clarion, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Fear, Emptiness, Despair and Unwound, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 169 connections around Sonic Youth, reaching back through Be Your Own Pet and forward to Clarion. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Sonic Youth connections
Sonic Youth grew out of Be Your Own Pet, The Pop Group, Anthology of American Folk Music and Untouchables, shares an orbit with Dinosaur Jr., Pixies, This Heat and Yo La Tengo, went on to shape Clarion, Nirvana, Foo Fighters and Fear, Emptiness, Despair. 169 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
Who influenced Sonic Youth
Sounds and acts that shaped Sonic Youth.
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Artists similar to Sonic Youth
Artists and scenes sharing an orbit with Sonic Youth.
Bands Sonic Youth shaped
Where the influence of Sonic Youth travelled next.
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- Foo Fightersartist
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