Overview
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Birthday
Jul 25, 1958 (67 years old)
Thurston Moore
Known For
Swans: Where Does a Body End?
From their roots as a brutal, confrontational industrial band, through...
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
The first career-spanning documentary retrospective of Lydia Lunch's confrontational, acerbic...
Biography
Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958) is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label. Moore was ranked 34th in Rolling Stone's 2004 edition of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time." In May 2012, Spin published a staff-selected top 100 ranking Moore and his Sonic Youth bandmate Lee Ranaldo together on number 1.
Acting
2024
The Road to Ruane
2023
Louder Than You Think
2021
Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
2021
The Sparks Brothers
2021
Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
2020
Thick Air
2020
Sonic Youth: From The Basement
2019
Swans: Where Does a Body End?
2019
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
2019
Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine
2019
Daydream Nation
2018
Desolation Center
2017
Teenage Superstars
2017
The Public Image Is Rotten
2016
Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape
2015
Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)
2014
It's Not Repetition, It's Discipline
2013
I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney
2012
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
2011
Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
2011
Blank City
2010
Sonic Youth & The Black Keys: Live at Austin City Limits 2011
2010
Ecstatic Peace Archives
2009
No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
2009
Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
2007
365 Day Project
2007
Welcome to My Castle!
2007
Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East
2006
Cut Shorts
2005
Punk: Attitude
2005
Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
2005
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
2005
Day Trip Maryanne
2004
(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
2003
Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage
2003
Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
2001
25 Years of Punk
2000
Sonic Youth: Live in Rio 2000
2000
Record Player: Christian Marclay
2000
Silver Rockets/Kool Things: 20 Years of Sonic Youth
1999
David S. Ware
1999
Turn of the Century
1997
Don't Bring A Dog
1996
Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
1995
An Introduction to Harmolodics
1995
Blood on the Beach
1994
Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos
1994
Hi Octane
1993
Changing Fashions
1993
Grunge Pedal
1992
1991: The Year Punk Broke
1991
Skeeno H.C. Rules
1991
Rap Damage
1991
Notebook
1988
Put More Blood Into the Music
1988
Lou Believers
1986
Submit to Me
1986
Death Valley '69