PAST IS PROLOGUE
Street Noise: Unearthing Sonic Youth
Forty years ago, New York Rocker sent me to review a new, unknown downtown band.
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8 min readOct 13, 2021
About two days after I’d moved to the Meat Packing District in fall 1981, from my first NYC apartment in Greenwich Village, the urge to write about music resurfaced. Though I’d maintained a sporadic journal since…