Thurston Moore

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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

Cool Dad Troubadour

Late Show with David Letterman

Self - Musical Guest

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Self - Musical Guest

The Devil and Daniel Johnston

Self

Space Ghost Coast to Coast

Fred Cracklin

The Sparks Brothers

Self

Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child

Self

Classic Albums: Nirvana - Nevermind

Self

Full Filmography

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

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