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Thurston Moore
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 25 July 1958
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Everything that is beautiful is edible
- Electric Bananas
- We're desperate
- Grunge
- Mix Tape
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Film & TV
Acting · 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…
Known for
- Broken English — Self2026
- The Last Critic2026
- The Best Summer — Self2026
- The Wizard of the Kremlin — Synthesizer Player2026
- Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt — Self2025
- Pavements — Self (uncredited)2025
- Sonic Youth: Live in 19912025
- Scala!!! — Self2024
- Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story2024
- The Road to Ruane — Self2024
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1958
Discography
Member of
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 339,862
- Total plays
- 5,074,601
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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. In 2012, Moore started a new band Chelsea Light Moving, with their first track, "Burroughs", released as a free download. Chelsea Light Moving's eponymous debut was released on 5 March 2013. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/T
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,730x
- Assessing the quality of reports of randomized clinical trials: Is blinding necessary?
· 1996 · cited 13,939x
- Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,144x
- Google Earth Engine: Planetary-scale geospatial analysis for everyone
· 2017 · cited 11,849x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,442x
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Key facts
- Also known as
- Mirror, Fred Cracklin
- Born
- Thurston Joseph Moore , ( 1958-07-25 ) July 25, 1958 (age 67) , Coral Gables, Florida , U.S.
- Genres
- Alternative rock noise rock avant-rock post-punk
- Occupations
- Musician songwriter
- Instruments
- Guitar vocals
- Years active
- 1976–present
- Labels
- Caroline International Matador Ecstatic Peace! DGC SST
- Formerly of
- Sonic Youth The Coachmen Swans Thurston Moore Band Even Worse Velvet Monkeys Dim Stars Chelsea Light Moving Twilight
- Spouses
- Kim Gordon ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1984 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2013 ) Eva Prinz ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2020 )
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.thurstonmoore.com
- Image
- Thurston Moore Kongsberg Jazzfestival 2024 (002828).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1958-07-25
- Commons category
- Thurston Moore
- birth name
- Thurston Joseph Moore
- start of work period
- 1980-00-00
- P12674
- Pa Sak River
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Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Thurston Moore, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958) is an American musician, singer and songwriter best known as guitarist and vocalist of alternative rock band Sonic Youth. He has participated in many solo and group collaborations outside 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 2012, Moore started a new band Chelsea Light Moving, whose eponymous debut was released on March 5, 2013. In 2015, Chelsea Light Moving disbanded after one studio album release. Moore and the other members of the band continue to make music under his solo project and other bands.