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SUUNS, Eaters, John Congolton and the Nighty Nite
Thursday April 28, 7 pm at the Marlin Room at Webster Hall: $15
The Marlin Room inspires a sense of foreboding in me: visions of an antechamber filled with clamoring sea beasts who’d like nothing more than to pierce my and your flesh with their Samurai snouts, then placidly inspect our writhing, tortured remains with their lifeless, black membranes-for-eyes. But I’m sure that people have made it in and out of shows at this Marlin Room before. Right? Could be a trap, or it could be worth it. If you can get past all this, then by all means go see Suuns and friends.
Hot on the heels of 
Shortly before Sonic Youth’s Dirty was released 23 years ago this week, their record label printed up T-shirts declaring it the “Sonic Summer” of 1992. That’s how confident Geffen was that the so-called “godfathers of grunge” were about to follow in the footsteps of Nirvana’s game-changing Nevermind. After all, Nirvana had just opened for Sonic Youth, as seen in Dave Markey’s awesome tour documentary 1991: The Year Punk Broke. And Sonic Youth was overdue for a breakthrough, having cemented their indie-darling status with masterpieces like Daydream Nation and blipped on the pop-cultural radar with “Kool Thing.” After a solid decade of reinventing rock with ethereal, eccentrically tuned guitars and howling drumstick-on-strings mayhem, who deserved it more: Stone Temple Pilots?