Person

Thurston Moore

Acting · Born 1958-07-25 · Coral Gables, Florida, USA

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.

Known for

Filmography

2026The Last Critic
2026The Best SummerSelf
2026Broken EnglishSelf
2026The Wizard of the KremlinSynthesizer Player
2025Sonic Youth: Live in 1991
2025PavementsSelf (uncredited)
2025Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing ButtSelf
2024The Road to RuaneSelf
2024UncroppedSelf
2024Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story
2024Scala!!!Self
2023Louder Than You ThinkSelf (archive footage)
2022Black LodgeExecutive Producer
2022Irma VepOriginal Music Composer
20212020Music
2021Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.himself
2021Fire MusicExecutive Producer
2021Watch the Sound with Mark RonsonSelf
2021The Sparks BrothersSelf
2021Poly Styrene: I Am a ClichéSelf
2020Thick AirHimself
2019Swans: Where Does a Body End?Self
2019Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond
2019Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never OverSelf
2019SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover SessionsSelf
2019Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll MagazineSelf - Sonic Youth
2019PunkSelf
2019Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
2018Desolation Center
2017Teenage SuperstarsSelf
2017The Public Image Is RottenHimself
2016Cassette: A Documentary MixtapeHimself
2015Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)Self
2014Station to Station
2014It's Not Repetition, It's DisciplineHimself
2013Lou Reed - Remembered
2013I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney
2012Ben Lee: Catch My DiseaseSelf
2012The Hardcore Collection(archive footage)
2011Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
2011Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival
2011Autoluminescent: Rowland S. HowardSelf
2011Blank CitySelf
2011StreetMusic
2011CleanOriginal Music Composer
2010William S. Burroughs: A Man WithinMusic
2010Sonic Youth & The Black Keys: Live at Austin City Limits 2011
2010Ecstatic Peace Archives
2010Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant ChildSelf
2010I Was Jack GoldsteinMusic
2009No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New YorkSelf
2009Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGBSelf
2009From the BasementSelf - Sonic Youth
2009Late Night with Jimmy FallonSelf - Musical Guest
2008New York Rock at the BBCSelf - Sonic Youth
2008I Need That Record!Himself
2007365 Day ProjectSelf
2007Welcome to My Castle!Self
2007Llik Your IdolsHimself
2007You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky EricksonSelf
2007Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle EastHimself
2007Jack Smith and the Destruction of AtlantisMusic
2007Extra ActionMusic
2006Cut Shorts
2006Kill Your Idols: More.Self
2006NoiseSelf
2006The Devil and Daniel JohnstonSelf
2005Punk: AttitudeHimself
2005Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
2005Classic Albums: Nirvana - NevermindSelf
2005We Jam Econo: The Story of the MinutemenSelf
2005Day Trip Maryanne
2005Cecil Taylor: All The NotesHimself
2005Sun Ra: Brother From Another PlanetSelf
2004(This Is Known as) The Blues ScaleSelf
2004Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
2004Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost (The Videos: 1990-2002)Director
2004Kill Your IdolsSelf
2003Sonic Youth: Live at SoundstagePerformer
2003Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live!Self - Musical Guest
2002DemonloverOriginal Music Composer
2002Pavement: Slow CenturySelf
2001Things Behind the SunOriginal Music Composer
200125 Years of PunkSelf
2001Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop MusicSelf - Narrator (voice)
2000Sonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000
2000Gilmore GirlsCool Dad Troubadour
2000Record Player: Christian MarclayHimself
2000The Hardcore Collection
2000Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic YouthSelf
1999David S. WareHimself
1999Turn of the CenturyHimself
1998Free TibetSelf - Sonic Youth
1998Sonic Youth: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim
1997Classic AlbumsSelf
1997Don't Bring A DogHimself
1996Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
1996Tibetan Freedom ConcertSelf
1995HeavyOriginal Music Composer
1995An Introduction to Harmolodics
1995The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween SpecialSelf
1995Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These TimesSelf
1995Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love
1995Sonic Youth: Blood on the BeachSelf
1994Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!
1994Freaks, Nerds & WeirdosSelf
1994Hi OctaneSelf (Host)
1994Space Ghost Coast to CoastFred Cracklin
1993Late Night with Conan O'BrienSelf - Musical Guest
1993Late Show with David LettermanSelf - Musical Guest
1993Changing Fashions
1993Sonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa
1993Grunge Pedal
19921991: The Year Punk BrokeSelf
1992The Tonight Show with Jay LenoSelf - Musical Guest
1991Skeeno H.C. Rules
1991GooSelf
1991Rap Damage
1991Notebook
1991Hippy PornOriginal Music Composer
1989Weatherman '69Jeff Jones
1988Sonic Youth: 930 Club
1988Put More Blood Into the MusicHimself
1988Lou BelieversHimself
1987Made in U.S.A.Original Music Composer
1987Submit to Me NowMusic
1986Sonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis
1986Sublapse Video Mag 1
1986Submit to Me
1985Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree
1984Rock My ReligionIdea
—Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985
—Sonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996
—Sonic Youth Full Set From The BasementSelf

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