SY has been together literally my entire lifespan. Let them go.

Whoa, that'd be like Georgia and Ira breaking up Yo La Tengo.

Except they're a good band.

uhmmm, this news of breaking up (the band) its like coming out of those "Fantastic Newspapers" that are in the stands featuring alien/demon boy born in xxxx or whatever. Gotta give them the respect of choice and privacy.

I wish they could have disintegrated better, though it’s not like I’ve listened to one of their albums in the last decade.

I've seen them about 10 times over the years and the last time I saw them was at Matador 21 this past October. That was by far the best show I'd ever seen them perform.

First R.E.M. and now Sonic Youth. Can it be that the 1980's are actually coming to an end?

And if so, please can we please get rid of Reagonomics, too please?

Used to love this band but we broke-up a while ago toooo.

Screw this, last time I saw them was when they played after Iggy Pop in the Line Up of the Evening. I have to see them again even if it means grabbing a Grayhound to Sweden.

On a stage that large, much like Reading in the UK, you don't have the same kind of intimacy you would have at the Roseland for example. They were in good form as far as I can tell given their ability to transfer that kind of noise at an amphitheater like that. As long as Free Kitten makes another album and Thurston plus Renaldo keeps up their solo bit, I can put SY in the past as weird as it is for me to type this.

Mark Ibold always smiles, no matter what.

+1 to Dmitrir.