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

5 October 2000

The Devil and Daniel Johnston

31 March 2006

Space Ghost Coast to Coast

Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child

25 January 2010

1991: The Year Punk Broke

19 November 1992

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

11 April 2015

Submit to Me

1 January 1985

We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen

25 February 2005

Acting roles

Year	Movie / TV show / Other	Role
2024	Scala!!!	Self
2024	The Road to Ruane	Self
2021	The Sparks Brothers	Self
2021	Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson	Self
2021	Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché	Self
2021	Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.	himself
2020	Thick Air	Himself
2019	Punk	Self
2019	Swans: Where Does a Body End?	Self
2019	Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine	Self - Sonic Youth
2019	Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over	Self
2019	SWANS - Where Does A Body End? Deluxe Edition	Self
2019	SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions	Self
2018	Desolation Center
2017	The Public Image Is Rotten	Himself
2017	Teenage Superstars	Himself
2016	Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape	Himself
2015	Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)	Himself
2014	It's Not Repetition, It's Discipline	Himself
—	Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt	Self
2023	Louder Than You Think	Self (archive footage)
—	Sonic Youth: From The Basement	self
—	Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985
2023	Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story
2019	Daydream Nation
2019	Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond
2013	I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney
2012	The Hardcore Collection
2012	Ben Lee: Catch My Disease	Self
2011	Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard	Self
2011	Blank City	Self
2010	Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child	Self
2010	Ecstatic Peace Archives
2009	No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York	Self
2009	From The Basement	Self - Sonic Youth
2009	Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB	Self
2009	Turn of the Century	Himself
2008	I Need That Record!	Himself
2008	New York Rock at the BBC	Self - Sonic Youth
2007	You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson	Self
2007	Llik Your Idols	Himself
2007	Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East	Himself
2007	365 Day Project
2007	Welcome to My Castle!	Self
2006	The Devil and Daniel Johnston	Self
2006	Noise	Self
2006	Kill Your Idols: More.	Himself
2006	Cut Shorts
2005	Punk: Attitude	Himself
2005	We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen	Himself
2005	Day Trip Maryanne
2005	Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
2005	Cecil Taylor: All The Notes	Himself
2004	Kill Your Idols	Himself
2004	Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
2004	(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale	Self
2003	Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
2003	Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage	Performer
2002	Pavement: Slow Century	Self
2001	25 Years of Punk	Self
2000	Gilmore Girls	Cool Dad Troubadour
2000	Silver Rockets/Kool Things: 20 Years of Sonic Youth
2000	Record Player: Christian Marclay	Himself
1999	David S. Ware	Himself
1997	Classic Albums	Self
1997	Don't Bring A Dog	Himself
1996	Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
1995	The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special	Self
1995	Blood on the Beach	Self
1995	An Introduction to Harmolodics
1994	Space Ghost Coast to Coast	Fred Cracklin
1994	Hi Octane	Self (Host)
1994	Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos	Self
1993	Grunge Pedal
1993	Changing Fashions
1992	1991: The Year Punk Broke	Self
1991	Goo	Self
1991	Notebook
1991	Rap Damage
1991	Sonic Youth - Goo	Himself
1991	Skeeno H.C. Rules
1989	Weatherman '69	Jeff Jones
1988	Put More Blood Into the Music	Himself
1988	Lou Believers	Himself
1986	Sublapse Video Mag 1
1986	Death Valley '69
1985	Submit to Me

Credits

Year	Movie / TV show / Other	Role
2022	Irma Vep	Original Music Composer
2022	Black Lodge	Executive Producer
2021	Fire Music	Executive Producer
2021	2020	Music
2011	Street	Music
2011	Clean	Original Music Composer
2010	William S. Burroughs: A Man Within	Music
2010	I Was Jack Goldstein	Music
2007	Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis	Music
2007	Extra Action	Music
2002	Demonlover	Original Music Composer
2001	Things Behind the Sun	Original Music Composer
1995	Heavy	Original Music Composer
1992	1991: The Year Punk Broke	Title Designer
1991	Goo	Writer
1991	Goo	Director
1987	Submit to Me Now	Music
1987	Made in U.S.A.	Original Music Composer
1984	Rock My Religion	Idea