We here at Late Night Wallflower have begun a wonderful partnership with the fantastic site, Phrequency.com. Yeah, we hug it out a lot. Call each other on the phone at 3 A.M. Drink our morning coffee together while playing footsies. It’s love.

So, along with a column for yours truly, you can expect a top five breakdown of recent stories from their site. We will also have a Top 5 on their site, called New York Moment with Late Night Wallflower. Who said, Philly and NY kids can’t get along? Just don’t call us “the younger brother.” Then, there will be problems. Here we go, here we go, here we go!

1. The Roots and Sheryl Crow Welcome America
Pictures from The Roots/Sheryl Crow concert in Philly on the 4th of July.

2. Sonic Youth: Eternally Young?
“Sonic Youth are aging well. I don’t mean physically of course (although if I look as good as Kim Gordon does when I’m 56, I will die a happy woman) – I’m talking musically. With 16 albums under their belt – not to mention 25+ years in the biz, and god knows how many exhilarating and life-changing experiences – these NYC alt-rockers have successfully resisted doing the one thing that causes death to alt-rockers everywhere: going soft.”

3. Hey Monday: Swimming in a Sea of 14 year-olds
“What did I get myself into? Last night at the First Unitarian Church, hoards of fans traveled to the hot, sweaty basement to revel in the genre-bending, cathartic, religious experience that is the music of Hey Monday. Emerging from the metaphorical Sarlacc Pit in the dead of summer covered in sweat (and possibly tears), I knew I had witnessed something magical, something extraordinary, something that has been done a million times before?”

4. Leftover Crack Turns Rotten
“The punx (note the X) were out in full force on Independence Day at the Starlight Ballroom to see their heroes, the Casualties and Leftover Crack turn a bunch of young suburbanites into their own miniature Johnny Rottens.”

5. Photos: Hate and War, Leftover Crack and The Casualties
Punky Chips A-Hoy!

Sonic Youth have joined the Matador Records ranks. The band had been saying they were returning to their independent roots for their 16th full-length so the move isn’t entirely shocking. Read the press release after the jump.

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Check out this video clip of Sonic Youth‘s July 4th performance at NYC’s Battery Park. Watch till the end and you’ll see our very own Jason Bergman getting chased and shredded by Thurston Moore.

With some crafty sleuthing and web browsing, LNW is bringing you the exclusive news of who is headlining the first night of the premiere of the All Tomorrow’s Parties “Don’t Look Back” series at the Pitchfork Festival. Are you ready? Sonic Youth will be performing Daydream Nation in its entirety on the first night, July 13th. Psyched? You should be. It gets better though, since the band will performing the classic album in Spain, along with two extra dates out in California. Here’s the official update from the All Tomorrow’s Parties site:

It would be unfair to keep this fabulous show exclusive to those of us in the UK. Therefore we are very excited to inform you of the opportunity to see Sonic Youth peforming Daydream Nation, as part of the Don’t Look Back series, outside of London. The shows scheduled so far are:

June 2nd – Primavera Festival, Barcelona, Spain
July 13th – Pitchfork Music Festival (ATP/ Don’t Look Back Stage), Union Park, Chicago
July 19th – Berkley Community Theatre
July 20th – Los Angeles Greek Theatre

The Pitchfork Music Festival will be held on July 13-15th in Chicago’s Union Park and I highly recommend you attend. Tickets on sale now.

edit: Well Pitchfork put the update up no more than five minutes after we did, but hey, it was here first!