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Grammatically correct: is. Because Sonic Youth is a collective noun. As a collective noun, there is only one Sonic Youth entity, thus is. **Edit: now I think about it, I may be looking for a phrase other than collective noun. Liverpool is the best football club. A murder of crows is a worrying thing. No, I might be right. It's something to do with nouns anyway. **
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I never, ever abide by this. Because, to my personal epistemoloy/ sense of language, saying 'is' makes you sound like the sort of person who returns e-mails to people because they began a sentence with a proposition. And that sort of pedantry is antithetical to me. Also, saying are asserts that a band is made of individuals, and addresses them as such.
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