Just Announced Sonic Youth, July 31 at the Ogden Theatre

The members of Sonic Youth will forever be seen as underground-rock gods, which is kind of incredible considering the fact that they’ve spent roughly 19 of 28 years together on a major label. But Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon & Co. have always played by their own rules, which translates into a quarter-century of creative high and some lows. Early word on the band’s forthcoming record The Eternal (due June 9 on Matador Records) is that it will continue the straight forward guitar pop direction taken on 2006’s Rather Ripped, which is probably good news for most fans. (You can download the propulsive Kim Gordon-sung rocker “Sacred Trickster” from Matador’s website.) And even if the new album sucks, you can still count on a few chestnuts from Daydream Nation when the band performs July 31 at the Ogden Theatre. Tickets go on sale Saturday, May 2 at 10 a.m. In the meantime, here’s the band performing one of its greatest songs, “Teenage Riot.”