Thurston Moore
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.
Movies (99)
The Last Critic
2026
The Best Summer
2026
Broken English
2026
The Wizard of the Kremlin
2026
Sonic Youth: Live in 1991
2025
Pavements
2025
Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
2025
The Road to Ruane
2024
Uncropped
2024
Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story
2024
Scala!!!
2024
Louder Than You Think
2023
Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
2021
The Sparks Brothers
2021
Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
2021
Thick Air
2020
Swans: Where Does a Body End?
2019
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
2019
SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
2019
Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine
2019
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
2019
Desolation Center
2018
Teenage Superstars
2017
The Public Image Is Rotten
2017
Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape
2016
Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)
2015
Station to Station
2014
It's Not Repetition, It's Discipline
2014
Lou Reed - Remembered
2013
I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney
2013
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
2012
The Hardcore Collection
2012
Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
2011
Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival
2011
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
2011
Blank City
2011
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
2010
Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
2009
From the Basement
2009
New York Rock at the BBC
2008
I Need That Record!
2008
365 Day Project
2007
Welcome to My Castle!
2007
Llik Your Idols
2007
You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson
2007
Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East
2007
Cut Shorts
2006
Noise
2006
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
2006
Punk: Attitude
2005
Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
2005
Classic Albums: Nirvana - Nevermind
2005
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
2005
Day Trip Maryanne
2005
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
2005
(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
2004
Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
2004
Kill Your Idols
2004
Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage
2003
Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
2003
Pavement: Slow Century
2002
Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 2002
2002
25 Years of Punk
2001
Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music
2001
Sonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000
2000
Record Player: Christian Marclay
2000
The Hardcore Collection
2000
Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth
2000
David S. Ware
1999
Turn of the Century
1999
Free Tibet
1998
Sonic Youth: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim
1998
Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 1998
1998
Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
1996
The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
1995
Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
1995
Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love
1995
Sonic Youth: Blood on the Beach
1995
Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!
1994
Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos
1994
Changing Fashions
1993
Sonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa
1993
Grunge Pedal
1993
1991: The Year Punk Broke
1992
Skeeno H.C. Rules
1991
Goo
1991
Rap Damage
1991
Notebook
1991
Weatherman '69
1989
Sonic Youth: 930 Club
1988
Put More Blood Into the Music
1988
Lou Believers
1988
Sonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis
1986
Sublapse Video Mag 1
1986
Submit to Me
1986
Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree
1985
Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985
Sonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996
Tibetan Freedom Concert
TV Shows (11)
Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson
2021
Punk
2019
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
2009
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Gilmore Girls
2000
Classic Albums
1997
Hi Octane
1994
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
1994
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992