Sonic Youth's Battery Park Concert: A Look Back at the Band's Final Years Through a Newly Released Live Album
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Susan Elizabeth Shepard
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A review and retrospective of Sonic Youth's 2008 Independence Day concert at Battery Park in NYC, which was originally given away as a pre-order bonus for their final album The Eternal and has now been commercially released a decade later. The piece reflects on the band's final years, their perfected live performances, and their tendency to revisit early material during this period.
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Battery Park, commercially released for the first time this month, was originally given away along with pre-orders of the band's final full-length, The Eternal, 10 years ago.
A free show in a lower Manhattan park on the Fourth of July is a
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