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