In the spring of 1989, a few months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Sonic Youth played shows across Lithuania, Russia, and Ukraine — all part of the USSR at the time. Sonic Youth weren’t the first noisy Western band to play Ukraine; Nick Cave, Einsturzende Neubauten, and Discharge had all played the city. But the Sonic Youth show in Kyiv was still a major event for the Ukrainian kids who saw them. Future Gogol Bordello frontman Eugene Hutz was in the crowd that night, and he’s always described that show as a major inspiration. Talking to The Guardian years ago, Hutz said, “Sonic Youth came to the Ukraine and brought progressive thinking, chords I couldn’t comprehend; volume I couldn’t withstand. Three hundred kids walked out with their whole cultural upbringing gone to the grinders.”