Acting · Coral Gables, Florida, USA · Born July 25, 1958
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.
MovieThe Last Critic
2026
MovieThe Best Summer
2026
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MovieBroken English
2026
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MovieThe Wizard of the Kremlin
2026
as Synthesizer Player
MovieSonic Youth: Live in 1991
2025
MoviePavements
2025
as Self (uncredited)
MovieButthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
2025
as Self
MovieThe Road to Ruane
2024
as Self
MovieUncropped
2024
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MovieBorn Innocent: The Redd Kross Story
2024
MovieScala!!!
2024
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MovieLouder Than You Think
2023
as Self (archive footage)
MovieFreakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
2021
as himself
TVWatch the Sound with Mark Ronson
2021
as Self
MovieThe Sparks Brothers
2021
as Self
MoviePoly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
2021
as Self
MovieThick Air
2020
as Himself
MovieSwans: Where Does a Body End?
2019
as Self
Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond
2019
MovieLydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
2019
as Self
MovieSY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
2019
as Self
MovieCreem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine
2019
as Self - Sonic Youth
TVPunk
2019
as Self
MovieSonic Youth: Daydream Nation
2019
MovieDesolation Center
2018
MovieTeenage Superstars
2017
as Self
MovieThe Public Image Is Rotten
2017
as Himself
MovieCassette: A Documentary Mixtape
2016
as Himself
MovieSalad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)
2015
as Self
MovieStation to Station
2014
MovieIt's Not Repetition, It's Discipline
2014
as Himself
MovieLou Reed - Remembered
2013
MovieI'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney
2013
MovieBen Lee: Catch My Disease
2012
as Self
MovieThe Hardcore Collection
2012
as (archive footage)
MovieSonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
2011
MovieSonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival
2011
MovieAutoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
2011
as Self
MovieBlank City
2011
as Self
Sonic Youth & The Black Keys: Live at Austin City Limits 2011
2010
Ecstatic Peace Archives
2010
MovieJean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
2010
as Self
No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
2009
as Self
MovieBurning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
2009
as Self
MovieFrom the Basement
2009
as Self - Sonic Youth
TVLate Night with Jimmy Fallon
2009
as Self - Musical Guest
MovieNew York Rock at the BBC
2008
as Self - Sonic Youth
MovieI Need That Record!
2008
as Himself
Movie365 Day Project
2007
as Self
MovieWelcome to My Castle!
2007
as Self
MovieLlik Your Idols
2007
as Himself
MovieYou're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson
2007
as Self
MovieDinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East
2007
as Himself
MovieCut Shorts
2006
Kill Your Idols: More.
2006
as Self
MovieNoise
2006
as Self
MovieThe Devil and Daniel Johnston
2006
as Self
MoviePunk: Attitude
2005
as Himself
MovieSonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
2005
MovieClassic Albums: Nirvana - Nevermind
2005
as Self
MovieWe Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
2005
as Self
MovieDay Trip Maryanne
2005
MovieCecil Taylor: All The Notes
2005
as Himself
Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
2005
as Self
Movie(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
2004
as Self
MovieSonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
2004
MovieKill Your Idols
2004
as Self
MovieSonic Youth: Live at Soundstage
2003
as Performer
MovieSonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
2003
TVJimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self - Musical Guest
MoviePavement: Slow Century
2002
as Self
Movie25 Years of Punk
2001
as Self
MovieMoney for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music
2001
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MovieSonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000
2000
TVGilmore Girls
2000
as Cool Dad Troubadour
MovieRecord Player: Christian Marclay
2000
as Himself
MovieThe Hardcore Collection
2000
MovieSilver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth
2000
as Self
MovieDavid S. Ware
1999
as Himself
MovieTurn of the Century
1999
as Himself
MovieFree Tibet
1998
as Self - Sonic Youth
MovieSonic Youth: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim
1998
MovieSunday
1998
as Selt
TVClassic Albums
1997
as Self
Don't Bring A Dog
1997
as Himself
MovieSonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
1996
MovieTibetan Freedom Concert
1996
as Self
An Introduction to Harmolodics
1995
MovieThe State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
1995
as Self
MovieBrian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
1995
as Self
MovieSonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love
1995
MovieSonic Youth: Blood on the Beach
1995
as Self
MovieNirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!
1994
MovieFreaks, Nerds & Weirdos
1994
as Self
TVHi Octane
1994
as Self (Host)
TVSpace Ghost Coast to Coast
1994
as Fred Cracklin
TVLate Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Musical Guest
TVLate Show with David Letterman
1993
as Self - Musical Guest
MovieChanging Fashions
1993
MovieSonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa
1993
MovieGrunge Pedal
1993
Movie1991: The Year Punk Broke
1992
as Self
TVThe Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
as Self - Musical Guest
Movie100%
1992
as Self
MovieSkeeno H.C. Rules
1991
MovieGoo
1991
as Self
MovieRap Damage
1991
MovieNotebook
1991
MovieWeatherman '69
1989
as Jeff Jones
MovieSonic Youth: 930 Club
1988
MoviePut More Blood Into the Music
1988
as Himself
MovieLou Believers
1988
as Himself
MovieSonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis
1986
MovieSublapse Video Mag 1
1986
MovieSubmit to Me
1986
MovieSonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree
1985
MovieSonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985
MovieSonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996
MovieSonic Youth Full Set From The Basement
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