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Name
Thurston Moore

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1958-07-25 (68 years old)

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.

Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

2005 Punk: Attitude as Himself
1991 Notebook
1992 1991: The Year Punk Broke as Self
2004 Kill Your Idols as Self
1999 David S. Ware as Himself
2004 Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
2001 25 Years of Punk as Self
2019 Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over as Self
2000 Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth as Self
2008 I Need That Record! as Himself
1995 Sonic Youth: Blood on the Beach as Self
2003 Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
2023 Louder Than You Think as Self (archive footage)
2005 Day Trip Maryanne
2000 Record Player: Christian Marclay as Himself
2006 Cut Shorts
2010 Ecstatic Peace Archives
2009 No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York as Self
2006 Kill Your Idols: More. as Self
2007 Llik Your Idols as Himself
1996 Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
2005 Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
2024 Scala!!! as Self
1989 Weatherman '69 as Jeff Jones
1999 Turn of the Century as Himself
2024 Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story
1995 An Introduction to Harmolodics
2007 Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East as Himself
2012 Ben Lee: Catch My Disease as Self
2025 Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt as Self
2005 We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen as Self
2009 From the Basement as Self - Sonic Youth
2015 Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90) as Self
2005 Cecil Taylor: All The Notes as Himself
2016 Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape as Himself
2024 The Road to Ruane as Self
1997 Don't Bring A Dog as Himself
1991 Rap Damage
1993 Grunge Pedal
1991 Goo as Self
2019 Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine as Self - Sonic Youth
2012 The Hardcore Collection as (archive footage)
1986 Sublapse Video Mag 1
2007 365 Day Project as Self
2011 Blank City as Self
1993 Changing Fashions
2017 The Public Image Is Rotten as Himself
1994 Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos as Self
2017 Teenage Superstars as Self
2002 Pavement: Slow Century as Self
2011 Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard as Self
2014 It's Not Repetition, It's Discipline as Himself
2004 (This Is Known as) The Blues Scale as Self
2013 I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney
2006 The Devil and Daniel Johnston as Self
2007 You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson as Self
2018 Desolation Center
2003 Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage as Performer
1988 Put More Blood Into the Music as Himself
2019 Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
2019 Swans: Where Does a Body End? as Self
2009 Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB as Self
2019 Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond
2010 Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child as Self
1988 Lou Believers as Himself
2019 SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions as Self
2006 Noise as Self
Soon Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985
2020 Thick Air as Himself
2007 Welcome to My Castle! as Self
1995 The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special as Self
2021 Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr. as himself
2021 Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché as Self
2021 The Sparks Brothers as Self
2008 New York Rock at the BBC as Self - Sonic Youth
1986 Submit to Me
1991 Skeeno H.C. Rules
2011 Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
2000 Sonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000
1998 Free Tibet as Self - Sonic Youth
1995 Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times as Self
2005 Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet as Self
2010 Sonic Youth & The Black Keys: Live at Austin City Limits 2011
2025 Pavements as Self (uncredited)
1985 Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree
2001 Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music as Self - Narrator (voice)
2025 Sonic Youth: Live in 1991
1993 Sonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa
1998 Sonic Youth: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim
2011 Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival
2024 Uncropped as Self
1995 Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love
1988 Sonic Youth: 930 Club
1986 Sonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis
2005 Classic Albums: Nirvana - Nevermind as Self
1994 Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!
Soon Sonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996
1996 Tibetan Freedom Concert as Self
2026 Broken English as Self
2014 Station to Station
2026 The Last Critic
2000 The Hardcore Collection
2013 Lou Reed - Remembered
2026 The Best Summer as Self
2026 The Wizard of the Kremlin as Synthesizer Player
Soon Sonic Youth Full Set From The Basement as Self

2000 Gilmore Girls ( 1 episode ) as Cool Dad Troubadour
1994 Space Ghost Coast to Coast ( 1 episode ) as Fred Cracklin
2019 Punk ( 2 episodes ) as Self
1997 Classic Albums ( 1 episode ) as Self
2021 Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson ( 1 episode ) as Self
1994 Hi Octane ( 4 episodes ) as Self (Host)
1993 Late Show with David Letterman ( 6 episodes ) as Self - Musical Guest
1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien ( 4 episodes ) as Self - Musical Guest
1992 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno ( 1 episode ) as Self - Musical Guest
2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live! ( 1 episode ) as Self - Musical Guest
2009 Late Night with Jimmy Fallon ( 1 episode ) as Self - Musical Guest

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