Surveying Sonic Youth's 'Daydream Nation'

Fresh Air | By Milo Miles

Published September 13, 2007 at 5:00 AM HST

Fresh Air's music critic Milo Miles considers the work of the art-punk band Sonic Youth; the group's 1988 album Daydream Nation has just been reissued in a deluxe double-CD edition.

Milo Miles

Milo Miles is Fresh Air's world-music and American-roots music critic. He is a former music editor of The Boston Phoenix.

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