Thurston Moore
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.
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Movies (122)
The One. For New York.
2026
Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
2026 · Self
The Last Critic
2026
The Best Summer
2026 · Self
Broken English
2026 · Self
The Wizard of the Kremlin
2026 · Synthesizer Player
Sonic Youth: Live in 1991
2025
Pavements
2025 · Self (uncredited)
The Road to Ruane
2024 · Self
Uncropped
2024 · Self
Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story
2024
Scala!!!
2024 · Self
Louder Than You Think
2023 · Self (archive footage)
Black Lodge
2022 · Executive Producer
2020
2021 · Music
Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
2021 · Self
Fire Music
2021 · Executive Producer
The Sparks Brothers
2021 · Self
Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
2021 · Self
Thick Air
2020 · Himself
Swans: Where Does a Body End?
2019 · Self
Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond
2019
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
2019 · Self
SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
2019 · Self
Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine
2019 · Self - Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
2019
Desolation Center
2018
Teenage Superstars
2017 · Self
The Public Image Is Rotten
2017 · Himself
Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape
2016 · Self
Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)
2015 · Self
Station to Station
2014
It's Not Repetition, It's Discipline
2014 · Self
Lou Reed - Remembered
2013
I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney
2013
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
2012 · Self
Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
2011
Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival
2011
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
2011 · Self
Blank City
2011 · Self
Street
2011 · Music
Clean
2011 · Original Music Composer
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
2010 · Music
Sonic Youth & The Black Keys: Live at Austin City Limits 2011
2010
Ecstatic Peace Archives
2010
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
2010 · Self
I Was Jack Goldstein
2010 · Music
No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
2009 · Self
Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
2009 · Self
From the Basement
2009 · Self - Sonic Youth
From The Basement
2009 · Self - Sonic Youth
New York Rock at the BBC
2008 · Self - Sonic Youth
I Need That Record!
2008 · Himself
365 Day Project
2007 · Self
Welcome to My Castle!
2007 · Self
Llik Your Idols
2007 · Himself
You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson
2007 · Self
Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East
2007 · Self
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
2007 · Music
Cut Shorts
2006
Kill Your Idols: More.
2006 · Self
Noise
2006 · Self
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
2006 · Self
Punk: Attitude
2005 · Self
Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
2005
Classic Albums: Nirvana - Nevermind
2005 · Self
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
2005 · Self
Day Trip Maryanne
2005
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
2005 · Himself
Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
2005 · Self
(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
2004 · Self
Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
2004
Kill Your Idols
2004 · Self
Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage
2003 · Performer
Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
2003
Demonlover
2002 · Original Music Composer
Pavement: Slow Century
2002 · Self
Things Behind the Sun
2001 · Original Music Composer
25 Years of Punk
2001 · Self
Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music
2001 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Sonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000
2000
Record Player: Christian Marclay
2000 · Himself
The Hardcore Collection
2000
Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth
2000 · Self
David S. Ware
1999 · Himself
Turn of the Century
1999 · Himself
Free Tibet
1998 · Self - Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim
1998
Don't Bring A Dog
1997 · Himself
Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
1996
Tibetan Freedom Concert
1996 · Self
Heavy
1995 · Original Music Composer
An Introduction to Harmolodics
1995
The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
1995 · Self
Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
1995 · Self
Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love
1995
Sonic Youth: Blood on the Beach
1995 · Self
Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!
1994
Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos
1994 · Self
Changing Fashions
1993
Sonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa
1993
Grunge Pedal
1993
1991: The Year Punk Broke
1992 · Self, Title Designer
Skeeno H.C. Rules
1991
Goo
1991 · Self, Writer, Director
Rap Damage
1991
Notebook
1991
Hippy Porn
1991 · Original Music Composer
Weatherman '69
1989 · Jeff Jones
Sonic Youth: 930 Club
1988
Put More Blood Into the Music
1988 · Himself
Lou Believers
1988 · Himself
Made in U.S.A.
1987 · Original Music Composer
Submit to Me Now
1987 · Music
Sonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis
1986
Sublapse Video Mag 1
1986
Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree
1985
Submit to Me
1985
Rock My Religion
1984 · Idea
Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985
Sonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996
Sonic Youth: Full Set From The Basement
· Self
TV shows (13)
Irma Vep
2022 · Original Music Composer
Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson
2021 · Self
Punk
2019 · Self
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
2009 · Self - Musical Guest
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Self - Musical Guest
Gilmore Girls
2000 · Cool Dad Troubadour
Classic Albums
1997 · Self
Hi Octane
1994 · Self (Host)
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
1994 · Fred Cracklin
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Self - Musical Guest
Late Show with David Letterman
1993 · Self - Musical Guest
Later... with Jools Holland
1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992 · Self - Musical Guest