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Sonic Youth And The Great Cosmic Blender

Mark Dery, RIP, August 1987

SKATEBOARDS, ELVIS Presley, Wrestlemania and trashy sexploitation flicks-eventually everything goes into the battered black cauldron called modern pop culture. And like the spumy, molten soup of unyielding human destiny, the resulting mixture is almost always strange and unpredictable.

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