Thurston Moore
Actor · Director · WriterThurston 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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KNOWN FOR
FILMOGRAPHY
ACTOR106
Broken English
2026
Self
The Last Critic
2026
The Best Summer
2026
Self
The Wizard of the Kremlin
2026
Synthesizer Player
Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
2025
Self
Pavements
2025
Self (uncredited)
Sonic Youth: Live in 1991
2025
Scala!!!
2024
Self
Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story
2024
The Road to Ruane
2024
Self
Uncropped
2024
Self
Louder Than You Think
2023
Self (archive footage)
Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
2021
himself
Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
2021
Self
The Sparks Brothers
2021
Self
Thick Air
2020
Himself
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
2019
Self
Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine
2019
Self - Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
2019
Swans: Where Does a Body End?
2019
Self
- Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond
Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond
2019
SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
2019
Self
Desolation Center
2018
The Public Image Is Rotten
2017
Himself
Teenage Superstars
2017
Self
Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape
2016
Himself
Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)
2015
Self
It's Not Repetition, It's Discipline
2014
Himself
Station to Station
2014
I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney
2013
Lou Reed - Remembered
2013
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
2012
Self
The Hardcore Collection
2012
(archive footage)
Blank City
2011
Self
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
2011
Self
Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
2011
Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival
2011
- Ecstatic Peace Archives
Ecstatic Peace Archives
2010
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
2010
Self
- Sonic Youth & The Black Keys: Live at Austin City Limits 2011
Sonic Youth & The Black Keys: Live at Austin City Limits 2011
2010
- No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
2009
Self
From the Basement
2009
Self - Sonic Youth
Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
2009
Self
I Need That Record!
2008
Himself
New York Rock at the BBC
2008
Self - Sonic Youth
Llik Your Idols
2007
Himself
Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East
2007
Himself
365 Day Project
2007
Self
You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson
2007
Self
Welcome to My Castle!
2007
Self
Cut Shorts
2006
- Kill Your Idols: More.
Kill Your Idols: More.
2006
Self
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
2006
Self
Noise
2006
Self
Punk: Attitude
2005
Himself
Day Trip Maryanne
2005
Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
2005
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
2005
Self
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
2005
Himself
- Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
2005
Self
Classic Albums: Nirvana - Nevermind
2005
Self
Kill Your Idols
2004
Self
Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
2004
(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
2004
Self
Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
2003
Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage
2003
Performer
Pavement: Slow Century
2002
Self
25 Years of Punk
2001
Self
Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music
2001
Self - Narrator (voice)
Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth
2000
Self
Record Player: Christian Marclay
2000
Himself
Sonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000
2000
The Hardcore Collection
2000
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
Don't Bring A Dog
1997
Himself
Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
1996
Tibetan Freedom Concert
1996
Self
Sonic Youth: Blood on the Beach
1995
Self
- An Introduction to Harmolodics
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
Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos
1994
Self
Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!
1994
Grunge Pedal
1993
Changing Fashions
1993
Sonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa
1993
1991: The Year Punk Broke
1992
Self
Notebook
1991
Rap Damage
1991
Goo
1991
Self
Skeeno H.C. Rules
1991
Weatherman '69
1989
Jeff Jones
Put More Blood Into the Music
1988
Himself
Lou Believers
1988
Himself
Sonic Youth: 930 Club
1988
Sublapse Video Mag 1
1986
Submit to Me
1986
Sonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis
1986
Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree
1985
Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985
Sonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996
Sonic Youth Full Set From The Basement
Self
SOUND13
2020
2021
Music
Street
2011
Music
Clean
2011
Original Music Composer
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
2010
Music
I Was Jack Goldstein
2010
Music
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
2007
Music
Extra Action
2007
Music
Demonlover
2002
Original Music Composer
Things Behind the Sun
2001
Original Music Composer
Heavy
1995
Original Music Composer
Hippy Porn
1991
Original Music Composer
Submit to Me Now
1987
Music
Made in U.S.A.
1987
Original Music Composer
