Thurston Moore

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

107

Gender

Male

Birthday

1958-07-25 (67 years old)

Place of Birth

Coral Gables, Florida, USA

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.

Known For

  • Gilmore Girls

    Gilmore Girls

  • Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times

    Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times

  • Classic Albums

    Classic Albums

  • Space Ghost Coast to Coast

    Space Ghost Coast to Coast

  • Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth

    Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth

  • Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music

    Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music

  • Sonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996

    Sonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996

  • Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011

    Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011

  • Scala!!!

    Scala!!!

  • Turn of the Century

    Turn of the Century

  • Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB

    Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB

  • Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)

    Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)

  • Pavements

    Pavements

  • Ben Lee: Catch My Disease

    Ben Lee: Catch My Disease

  • Sonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000

    Sonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000

  • Noise

    Noise

  • Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child

    Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child

  • Sonic Youth & The Black Keys: Live at Austin City Limits 2011

    Sonic Youth & The Black Keys: Live at Austin City Limits 2011

  • Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson

    Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson

  • Blank City

    Blank City

  • Grunge Pedal

    Grunge Pedal

  • The Sparks Brothers

    The Sparks Brothers

  • Free Tibet

    Free Tibet

  • Weatherman '69

    Weatherman '69

  • Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over

    Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over

  • The Devil and Daniel Johnston

    The Devil and Daniel Johnston

  • Llik Your Idols

    Llik Your Idols

  • 25 Years of Punk

    25 Years of Punk

  • Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story

    Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story

  • 1991: The Year Punk Broke

    1991: The Year Punk Broke

  • Notebook

    Notebook

  • Kill Your Idols

    Kill Your Idols

  • Kill Your Idols: More.

    Kill Your Idols: More.

  • Louder Than You Think

    Louder Than You Think

  • Tibetan Freedom Concert

    Tibetan Freedom Concert

  • Pavement: Slow Century

    Pavement: Slow Century

  • Punk

    Punk

  • 365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

  • Skeeno H.C. Rules

    Skeeno H.C. Rules

  • Swans: Where Does a Body End?

    Swans: Where Does a Body End?

  • From the Basement

    From the Basement

  • Punk: Attitude

    Punk: Attitude

  • The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special

    The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special

  • Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 2002

    Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 2002

  • Sonic Youth: Blood on the Beach

    Sonic Youth: Blood on the Beach

  • Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival

    Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival

  • Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation

    Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation

  • Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos

    Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos

  • Lou Believers

    Lou Believers

  • I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney

    I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney

  • Sonic Youth: Live in 1991

    Sonic Youth: Live in 1991

  • Classic Albums: Nirvana - Nevermind

    Classic Albums: Nirvana - Nevermind

  • It's Not Repetition, It's Discipline

    It's Not Repetition, It's Discipline

  • No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York

    No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York

  • Hi Octane

    Hi Octane

  • Submit to Me

    Submit to Me

  • Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard

    Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard

  • Don't Bring A Dog

    Don't Bring A Dog

  • Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!

    Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!

  • Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage

    Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage

  • Sonic Youth: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim

    Sonic Youth: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim

  • Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes

    Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes

  • Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East

    Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East

  • The Public Image Is Rotten

    The Public Image Is Rotten

  • Rap Damage

    Rap Damage

  • Sonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa

    Sonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa

  • Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 1998

    Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 1998

  • Sonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis

    Sonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis

  • Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché

    Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché

  • David S. Ware

    David S. Ware

  • Sublapse Video Mag 1

    Sublapse Video Mag 1

  • Cecil Taylor: All The Notes

    Cecil Taylor: All The Notes

  • Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost

    Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost

  • Sonic Youth: 930 Club

    Sonic Youth: 930 Club

  • Thick Air

    Thick Air

  • Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996

    Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996

  • Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)

    Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)

  • Cut Shorts

    Cut Shorts

  • You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson

    You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson

  • SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions

    SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions

  • Changing Fashions

    Changing Fashions

  • Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.

    Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.

  • Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt

    Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt

  • Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape

    Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape

  • Uncropped

    Uncropped

  • We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen

    We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen

  • Teenage Superstars

    Teenage Superstars

  • Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree

    Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree

  • Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine

    Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine

  • Broken English

    Broken English

  • Goo

    Goo

  • Day Trip Maryanne

    Day Trip Maryanne

  • Ecstatic Peace Archives

    Ecstatic Peace Archives

  • Record Player: Christian Marclay

    Record Player: Christian Marclay

  • Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love

    Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love

  • Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985

    Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985

  • Desolation Center

    Desolation Center

  • Welcome to My Castle!

    Welcome to My Castle!

  • New York Rock at the BBC

    New York Rock at the BBC

  • The Road to Ruane

    The Road to Ruane

  • Put More Blood Into the Music

    Put More Blood Into the Music

  • (This Is Known as) The Blues Scale

    (This Is Known as) The Blues Scale

  • An Introduction to Harmolodics

    An Introduction to Harmolodics

  • Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet

    Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet

  • Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond

    Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond

  • I Need That Record!

    I Need That Record!

  • The Hardcore Collection

    The Hardcore Collection