Chief among the acts a formative O – full name Orzolek – saw was Sonic Youth, as she told the New York Times. Yeah Yeah Yeahs then benefitted from the band’s patronage directly, as O not ...

the New York no-wave star, and after writing a song with Crews’s title they decided to call the band Harry Crews. Sonic Youth played a gig in a bar in northern Florida. “We walk in and Harry ...