Jake Brennan

I feel like we have, hopefully.

Sounds good to me.

Anyways, I hope it sounds good to you.

I'm psyched to be talking to y'all.

I was thinking about Sonic Youth this morning in the context of the story that we just told this week, and specifically about the concept of cool.

Sonic Youth were just the coolest.

They knew they were the coolest.

They sounded the coolest, looked the coolest, didn't seem to care if we thought they were the coolest or not either.

And you know, that's a hallmark for being cool, not giving a shit.

So

They weren't just one of the coolest New York bands of all time, which is saying something.

They were one of the coolest bands of all time.

They influenced so many groups, so many artists, so many writers, hell, even podcasters like yours truly.

There is some unfortunate scandal, drama, really, not so much scandal, I guess.

I don't know.

Those two words are kind of, they kind of mean the same thing.

At the tail end of Sonic Youth's story, talking, of course, about Thurston Moore's affair and betrayal of his bandmate and wife, Kim Gordon, who is beloved by fans.

And that betrayal likely means that Sonic Youth's story is indeed dead, as dead as Nancy Spungen in the Chelsea Hotel.

Nancy is never coming back, and neither is Sonic Youth.

Nancy's death, her murder...