Seattle Times:
The Sonics took the stage at Emo’s after an embarrassingly hyperbolic introduction (“Has anyone else been waiting 30 years for this? These guys are the foundation of garage rock ‘n’ roll! They are the godfathers of garage rock ‘n’ roll!,” etc.), and proved that their musical DNA is ingrained in a majority of bands at SXSW. Looking like your dad and playing like your nephew, the Tacoma natives aren’t a very animated group, but the music and its pedigree are impressive enough. This might be the band that first introduced the saxophone as an instrument of rock, back in their mid-’60s heyday.