Thurston Moore
Birthday: 1958-07-25
Place of Birth: 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.
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Punk: Attitude
From London's 1970 mod scene to Sonic Youth, punk music has always been about attitude and anarchy. ...
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Notebook
Early Lee Ranaldo short film with spoken word narration. Utilizes some of the same Sonic Youth tour ...
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1991: The Year Punk Broke
David Markey's documentary of life on the road with Sonic Youth and Nirvana during their tour of Eur...
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Kill Your Idols
A 2004 documentary on thirty years of alternative rock 'n roll in NYC.Documenting the history from t...
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Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
A compilation of 24 music videos by Sonic Youth ranging from 1990 to 2002. Collaborators include Ha...
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25 Years of Punk
Lou Reed narrates this Television special that takes a look back at the beginnings of the punk rock ...
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Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
The first career-spanning documentary retrospective of Lydia Lunch's confrontational, acerbic and al...
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Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth
This portrait of the New York band Sonic Youth marking the band’s 20th anniversary covers its histor...
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I Need That Record!
Guerilla filmmaker Brendan Toller unleashes I NEED THAT RECORD! THE DEATH (OR POSSIBLE SURVIVAL) OF ...
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Sonic Youth: Blood on the Beach
Sonic Youth's Blood on the Beach is comprised of two shows and interview clips recorded in November ...
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Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
Filmed April 12, 2003 at a benefit concert held at and for The Anthology Film Archives, the internat...
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Louder Than You Think
Gary Young, drummer for indie-rock icons Pavement, injected a wild-card unpredictability into the ba...
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Day Trip Maryanne
Day Trip Maryanne captures the collaboration between legendary sound sculptor Maryanne Amacher and g...
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Record Player: Christian Marclay
Christian demonstrates some techniques and preparations and meditates on the turntable, improvisatio...
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Cut Shorts
A collection of short films and music videos from independent filmmaker David Markey, from 1974 to 2...
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Ecstatic Peace Archives
Lance Bangs interviews Thurston Moore about the Ecstatic Peace Archives....
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No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
the connections and energy flow between the various artists populating the 1980s sub-cultures of New...
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Kill Your Idols: More.
A full-length feature documentary produced in 2006 which serves as a companion piece to and is inclu...
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Llik Your Idols
Discover the New York underground scene during the 80s and throw yourself into an exciting, anarchic...
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Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
Live at Rocknacht, Germany 1996. Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from NewYork City,...
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Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
Sonic Youth's 2005 performance at Les Eurockéennes de Belfort festival, one of France's largest rock...
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Scala!!!
This feature-length big screen documentary tells the riotous inside story of the infamous sex, drugs...
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Weatherman '69
Featuring a cast that includes Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, Mike Watt of the legenda...
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Turn of the Century
Filmmaker, illustrator and musician Dame Darcy's weekly television collaboration with Blessed Elysiu...
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Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story
Formed in 1978 by brothers Jeff and Steve McDonald, and still actively playing and recording today, ...
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An Introduction to Harmolodics
Ornette Coleman is always asked, “what is Harmolodics?” Harmolodics is the term he coined to describ...
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Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East
Filmed during their 2005 reunion tour, this release captures the sonic guitar assaults of Dinosaur J...
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Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
Charming, intelligent and iconoclastic, Ben Lee is an Australian singer-songwriter whose creative gr...
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Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
Follows the story of the groundbreaking Texas-based art-punk band founded by frontman Gibby Haynes a...
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We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
A feature-length documentary chronicling early '80s punk rock band the Minutemen, from their beginni...
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From the Basement
First DVD release from this refreshingly basic UK music programme puts the music in the foreground w...
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Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)
"Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)" examines the early DIY punk scene in the ...
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Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
Cecil Taylor was the grand master of free jazz piano. "All the Notes" captures in breezy fashion the...
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Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape
Cassette inventor Lou Ottens digs through his past to figure out why the audiotape won't die. Rock v...
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The Road to Ruane
Billy Ruane, storied impresario of the 90s Boston indie music scene. Billy promoted shows and inspir...
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Don't Bring A Dog
Don't Bring A Dog shows a part of the New York underground music scene - rooted in the early eightie...
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Rap Damage
Thurston on a bender. Shot one day during a break on the Ragged Glory Tour. Hip Hopped-up NYC roadie...
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Grunge Pedal
Starring Vehicle for Free Kitten. Kim Gordon, Julie Cafritz, & Mark Ibold lounge on suburban lawns, ...
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Goo
In 1991, a long-form music video version of Goo was released on VHS and LaserDisc. A music video for...
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Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine
Explores the seminal music magazine from its 1969 launch in Detroit to the untimely death of its pub...
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The Hardcore Collection
This DVD features 13 provocative short films by Richard Kern. Color & B&W film shorts with Lydia Lun...
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Sublapse Video Mag 1
Video Fanzine featuring: Half Japanese, Redd Kross with Sky Saxon as Purple Electricity, R Kern, Son...
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365 Day Project
This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calenda...
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Blank City
In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come f...
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Changing Fashions
Anthony Kiedis and Sofia Coppola try to escape the fashion influence of Debbie Harry....
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The Public Image Is Rotten
British rock icon John Lydon and fellow bandmates recall the years they spent performing as Public I...
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Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos
Documentary that gives a voice to the percentage of youth that were outcasts/non-conformists in the ...
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Teenage Superstars
Grant McPhee's sequel to Big Gold Dream picks up where the previous film left off, and continues its...
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Pavement: Slow Century
Documentary tracing the existence of noted rock band Pavement from 1989 to their final performance i...
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Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
From myth to legend Rowland Howard appeared on the early Melbourne punk scene like a phantom out of ...
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It's Not Repetition, It's Discipline
Dandelion Records and DVD's present Probably the nearest you will ever get to an official documentar...
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(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
While planning the eventual DVD release for "1991: The Year Punk Broke", Dave Markey cut a 40-minute...
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I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney
This documentary tells the story of Mudhoney from their very beginnings, to following them on their ...
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The Devil and Daniel Johnston
This 2005 documentary film chronicles the life of Daniel Johnston, a manic-depressive genius singer/...
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You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson
Documentary about rock pioneer Roky Erickson, detailing his rise as a psychedelic hero, his lengthy ...
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Desolation Center
The untold story of a series of Reagan-era guerrilla punk and industrial desert happenings in Southe...
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Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage
Quintessential alternative rockers, Sonic Youth, celebrate free-form experimentalism while reinforci...
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Put More Blood Into the Music
PBS produced documentary in two parts: the first is dedicated to saxophonist and composer John Zorn;...
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Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
A concert film of Sonic Youth performing their Daydream Nation album in full with a bonus encore of ...
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Swans: Where Does a Body End?
From their roots as a brutal, confrontational industrial band, through breakups and chaos, to their ...
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Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
An East Village performance space fought against the Bowery homeless shelter who threatened to shut ...
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Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond
As a fixture of the New York music scene for 30 years, Sonic Youth performed in New York City innume...
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Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
A thoughtful portrait of a renowned artist, this documentary shines the spotlight on New York City p...
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Lou Believers
Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, and Lou Reed roam the streets of Los Angeles searching for James Woods....
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SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
A fly-on-the-wall documentary about the recording of the music score by Sonic Youth....
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Noise
Footage from 2005’s Festival Art Rock in Saint-Brieuc, France, featuring Metric, Sonic Youth, Jeanne...
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Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985
A video documenting Sonic Youth's performance at the Gila Monster Jamboree. Taking place in a remote...
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Thick Air
An experimental music ensemble is recording an album. They want a very specific sound: the sound of ...
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Welcome to My Castle!
Over 5 hours of full-length interviews with Nirvana, Tommy Chong, Sonic Youth, Pierre Elliot Trudeau...
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The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
Comedy troupe The State hosts a Halloween special on CBS....
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Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
The American indie rock band “Dinosaur Jr.” is a radical group with an unmistakeable sound. The film...
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Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
The death of punk icon and X-Ray Spex front-woman Poly Styrene sends her daughter on a journey throu...
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The Sparks Brothers
Take a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers Ron & Russell Mael, ce...
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Submit to Me
Cinema of Transgression pioneers and participants (Lydia Lunch, Lung Leg, Nick Zedd, etc.) perform a...
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New York Rock at the BBC
Celebrating the cream of the New York rock scene, including classic performances from the Ramones, N...
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Skeeno H.C. Rules
Sonic Youth play hockey arena w/ Neil Young in Reno, Nevada. Ten years earlier 7 Seconds recorded th...
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Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
I Just Wasn't Made for These Times is a documentary about the life of Brian Wilson, the musical mast...
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Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
Sun Ra was born on the planet Saturn some time ago. The best accounts agree that he emerged on Earth...
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Sonic Youth & The Black Keys: Live at Austin City Limits 2011
ACL presents the evolution of electric guitar music with Sonic Youth and the Black Keys. Sonic Youth...
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Pavements
'90s indie-rock band Pavement reunites for their sold-out 2022 tour. But as preparations get underwa...
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Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree
This was a concert video released thru Sonic Death, filmed on January 5th, 1985 in the Mojave Desert...
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Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music
The hallmarks of popular music - artist independence and diversity of voices - are threatened by a c...
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Sonic Youth: Live in 1991
Sonic Youth in 1991 on Neil Young's Smell the Horse tour, captured by Crazy Horse Guitar/Bass Tech M...
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Sonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa
Sonic Youth's first concert in Portugal. Recorded Live at Campo Pequeno Lisbon, Portugal July 14, 1...
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Sonic Youth: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim
Concert given by Sonic Youth on Friday, August 7, 1998, as part of the Benicàssim International Fest...
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Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival
The second last show on Sonic Youth's sad final stanza, a festival tour of South America that eventu...
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Uncropped
A legendary Village Voice photojournalist recounts the stories behind iconic images taken over the c...
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Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love
All of the band 80's music videos along with some live performances...
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Classic Albums: Nirvana - Nevermind
Nirvana's groundbreaking 1991 album NEVERMIND raised the Seattle trio to the status of Godhead, fore...
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Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!
Nirvana's frontman Kurt Cobain worked on compiling this collection of performances, interviews, and ...
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Sonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996
June 16, 1996 Golden Gate Park San Francisco...
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Broken English
A survivor, provocateur and true original, Marianne has spent more than six decades defying expectat...
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