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
Top 40 Movies
Pavements
2025
Lou Believers
1988
The Sparks Brothers
2021
Scala!!!
2024
Free Tibet
1998
Broken English
2026
Changing Fashions
1993
Swans: Where Does a Body End?
2019
Blank City
2011
Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!
1994
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
2010
Desolation Center
2018
The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
1995
Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)
2015
Punk: Attitude
2005
365 Day Project
2007
Cut Shorts
2006
Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music
2001
Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
2021
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
2012
Teenage Superstars
2017
Goo
1991
Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
2025
Uncropped
2024
1991: The Year Punk Broke
1992
Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
2009
25 Years of Punk
2001
Thick Air
2020
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
2005
Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
2021
Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos
1994
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
2011
Classic Albums: Nirvana - Nevermind
2005
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
2006
Noise
2006
Weatherman '69
1989
Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
2004
Submit to Me
1986
New York Rock at the BBC
2008