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

Cool Dad Troubadour

Space Ghost Coast to Coast

Fred Cracklin

Punk

Self

Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson

Self

Scala!!!

Self

Classic Albums

Self

Desolation Center

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2025	Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt	Self
2025	Pavements	Self (uncredited)
2024	Scala!!!	Self
2024	Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story
2024	The Road to Ruane	Self
2023	Louder Than You Think	Self (archive footage)
2021	Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.	himself
2021	Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché	Self
2021	The Sparks Brothers	Self
2020	Sonic Youth: From The Basement	self
2020	Thick Air	Himself
2019	Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over	Self
2019	Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine	Self - Sonic Youth
2019	Daydream Nation
2019	Swans: Where Does a Body End?	Self
2019	Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond
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)	Self
2014	It's Not Repetition, It's Discipline	Himself
2013	I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney
2012	Ben Lee: Catch My Disease	Self
2012	The Hardcore Collection	(archive footage)
2011	Blank City	Self
2011	Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard	Self
2011	Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
2010	Ecstatic Peace Archives
2010	Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child	Self
2010	Sonic Youth & The Black Keys: Live at Austin City Limits 2011
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
2008	I Need That Record!	Himself
2008	New York Rock at the BBC	Self - Sonic Youth
2007	Llik Your Idols	Himself
2007	Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East	Himself
2007	365 Day Project
2007	You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson	Self
2007	Welcome to My Castle!	Self
2006	Cut Shorts
2006	Kill Your Idols: More.	Himself
2006	The Devil and Daniel Johnston	Self
2006	Noise	Self
2005	Punk: Attitude	Himself
2005	Day Trip Maryanne
2005	Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
2005	We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen	Himself
2005	Cecil Taylor: All The Notes	Himself
2005	Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet	Self
2004	Kill Your Idols	Self
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
2002	Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 2002
2001	25 Years of Punk	Self
2000	Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth	Self
2000	Record Player: Christian Marclay	Himself
2000	Sonic Youth: Live in Rio 2000
1999	David S. Ware	Himself
1999	Turn of the Century	Himself
1998	Free Tibet	Self - Sonic Youth
1998	Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 1998
1997	Don't Bring A Dog	Himself
1996	Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
1995	Blood on the Beach	Self
1995	An Introduction to Harmolodics
1995	The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special	Self
1995	Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times	Self
1994	Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos	Self
1993	Grunge Pedal
1993	Changing Fashions
1992	1991: The Year Punk Broke	Self
1991	Notebook
1991	Rap Damage
1991	Goo	Self
1991	Skeeno H.C. Rules
1989	Weatherman '69	Jeff Jones
1988	Put More Blood Into the Music	Himself
1988	Lou Believers	Himself
1986	Death Valley '69
1986	Sublapse Video Mag 1
1986	Submit to Me
1985	Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree
	Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985

Year	TV Show	Role
2021	Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson	Self
2019	Punk	Self
2000	Gilmore Girls	Cool Dad Troubadour
1997	Classic Albums	Self
1994	Space Ghost Coast to Coast	Fred Cracklin
1994	Hi Octane	Self (Host)