Dinosaur (later to be renamed Dinosaur Jr.) recorded their debut album in 1985 for $500 at a home studio in the woods outside Northampton, Massachusetts. On the strength of that album, they begin to play shows down south in NYC. There they met Sonic Youth
With its vast array of musical styles, Wowee Zowee isn't as accessible as Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain or as immediate as the bracing, noisy pop of Slanted & Enchanted.
Sonic Youth’s eponymous debut EP, reissued in a deluxe double- LP edition on the band’s own Goofin’ imprint, was recorded in late 1981 at Radio City Music Hall in NYC and originally released on composer Glenn Branca’s Neutral label.