As guitarist Lee Ranaldo is in Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes in this month's new issue (April 2012, Take 179), we thought we'd share a Sonic Youth piece from our archive. In this feature, published in 2009, Marc Spitz finds the band (who've just finished what we now know could be their final album, The Eternal) ageing with more dignity than most, but still finding time to lash out at Oasis, Madonna and U2, and order a baby pig with a donut in its mouth… Picture by Pieter M Van Hattem.

Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon is set to play a tiny London club show with her new musical project, Body/Head.

Guitarist admits the band's future is uncertain

Former rarity 'Hits Are For Squares' will get a general release on October 31

Thurston Moore speaks about band at solo show in London

'In Silver Rain With A Paper Key' is out in December

He'll teach kids about white noise later this April

New York alternogrunge vets, 16 albums young

Their 16th album The Eternal is released in June

Led Zeppelin bassist teams up with the New York legends for dance piece