Thurston Moore
Acting
1958-07-25 · Coral Gables, Florida, USA
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.
Filmography
The Last Critic
2026 · Movie
The Best Summer
2026 · Movie
Broken English
2026 · Movie
The Wizard of the Kremlin
2026 · Movie
Sonic Youth: Live in 1991
2025 · Movie
Pavements
2025 · Movie
Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
2025 · Movie
The Road to Ruane
2024 · Movie
Uncropped
2024 · Movie
Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story
2024 · Movie
Scala!!!
2024 · Movie
Louder Than You Think
2023 · Movie
Black Lodge
2022 · Movie
Irma Vep
2022 · Series
2020
2021 · Movie
Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
2021 · Movie
Fire Music
2021 · Movie
Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson
2021 · Series
The Sparks Brothers
2021 · Movie
Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
2021 · Movie
Thick Air
2020 · Movie
Swans: Where Does a Body End?
2019 · Movie
Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond
2019 · Movie
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
2019 · Movie
SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
2019 · Movie
Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine
2019 · Movie
Punk
2019 · Series
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
2019 · Movie
Desolation Center
2018 · Movie
Teenage Superstars
2017 · Movie
The Public Image Is Rotten
2017 · Movie
Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape
2016 · Movie
Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)
2015 · Movie
Station to Station
2014 · Movie
It's Not Repetition, It's Discipline
2014 · Movie
Lou Reed - Remembered
2013 · Movie
I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney
2013 · Movie
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
2012 · Movie
The Hardcore Collection
2012 · Movie
Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
2011 · Movie
Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival
2011 · Movie
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
2011 · Movie
Blank City
2011 · Movie
Clean
2011 · Movie
Street
2011 · Movie
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
2010 · Movie
Sonic Youth & The Black Keys: Live at Austin City Limits 2011
2010 · Movie
Ecstatic Peace Archives
2010 · Movie
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
2010 · Movie
I Was Jack Goldstein
2010 · Movie
No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
2009 · Movie
Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
2009 · Movie
From The Basement
2009 · Movie
From the Basement
2009 · Movie
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
2009 · Series
New York Rock at the BBC
2008 · Movie
I Need That Record!
2008 · Movie
365 Day Project
2007 · Movie
Welcome to My Castle!
2007 · Movie
Llik Your Idols
2007 · Movie
You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson
2007 · Movie
Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East
2007 · Movie
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
2007 · Movie
Extra Action
2007 · Movie
Cut Shorts
2006 · Movie
Kill Your Idols: More.
2006 · Movie
Noise
2006 · Movie
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
2006 · Movie
Punk: Attitude
2005 · Movie
Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
2005 · Movie
Classic Albums: Nirvana - Nevermind
2005 · Movie
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
2005 · Movie
Day Trip Maryanne
2005 · Movie
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
2005 · Movie
Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
2005 · Movie
(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
2004 · Movie
Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost (The Videos: 1990-2002)
2004 · Movie
Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
2004 · Movie
Kill Your Idols
2004 · Movie
Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage
2003 · Movie
Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
2003 · Movie
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Series
Demonlover
2002 · Movie
Pavement: Slow Century
2002 · Movie
Things Behind the Sun
2001 · Movie
25 Years of Punk
2001 · Movie
Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music
2001 · Movie
Sonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000
2000 · Movie
Gilmore Girls
2000 · Series
Record Player: Christian Marclay
2000 · Movie
The Hardcore Collection
2000 · Movie
Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth
2000 · Movie
David S. Ware
1999 · Movie
Turn of the Century
1999 · Movie
Free Tibet
1998 · Movie
Sonic Youth: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim
1998 · Movie
Classic Albums
1997 · Series
Don't Bring A Dog
1997 · Movie
Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
1996 · Movie
Tibetan Freedom Concert
1996 · Movie
Heavy
1995 · Movie
An Introduction to Harmolodics
1995 · Movie
The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
1995 · Movie
Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
1995 · Movie
Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love
1995 · Movie
Sonic Youth: Blood on the Beach
1995 · Movie
Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!
1994 · Movie
Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos
1994 · Movie
Hi Octane
1994 · Series
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
1994 · Series
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Series
Late Show with David Letterman
1993 · Series
Changing Fashions
1993 · Movie
Sonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa
1993 · Movie
Grunge Pedal
1993 · Movie
1991: The Year Punk Broke
1992 · Movie
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992 · Series
Skeeno H.C. Rules
1991 · Movie
Goo
1991 · Movie
Rap Damage
1991 · Movie
Hippy Porn
1991 · Movie
Notebook
1991 · Movie
Weatherman '69
1989 · Movie
Sonic Youth: 930 Club
1988 · Movie
Put More Blood Into the Music
1988 · Movie
Lou Believers
1988 · Movie
Made in U.S.A.
1987 · Movie
Submit to Me Now
1987 · Movie
Sonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis
1986 · Movie
Sublapse Video Mag 1
1986 · Movie
Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree
1985 · Movie
Submit to Me
1985 · Movie
Rock My Religion
1984 · Movie
Sonic Youth: Full Set From The Basement
Movie
Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985
Movie
Sonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996
Movie