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2 months ago | 
nymag.com | Thurston Moore |Katherine Gillespie
Photo-Illustration: The Strategist; Photo: Rob Kim/Getty Images for The Recording Academy, Joe McKendry If you’re like us, you’ve probably wondered what everyday stuff famous people add to their carts — like hair spray or an electric toothbrush. We asked musician Thurston Moore — whose album Flow Critical Lucidity is out now — about the fox-deterring fertilizer, guitar picks, and German foot cream he can’t live without.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Graham Reid |Thurston Moore
Dam Native and Thurston Moore. (Photos / Supplied)Kaupapa Driven Rhymes Upliftedby Dam NativeKaupapa Driven Rhymes Uplifted by Dam Native. Photo / supplied Those who couldn’t comprehend rap’s rapid rise needed only to understand this: the speak-sing idiom allowed the marginalised, disenfranchised, oppressed and angry a vehicle for saying so. This country’s first recorded rap, 1988′s E Tū by Upper Hutt Posse, meant the Māori renaissance now came with a contemporary soundtrack.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
ghettoblastermagazine.com | Eddie Ugarte |Thurston Moore
Post-hardcore? Who the hell said that? Well, maybe but I have other thoughts about the fuckery concocted by Kansas City, Missouri’s Abandoncy and its new EP Assailable//Agonism (Learning Curve Records/The Ghost Is Clear/Vina Records), a release so deliberate, heavy, and innate, it takes three labels to hold it down.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Thurston Moore
The New York artist Rammellzee was, without a doubt, one of the most intriguing visionaries of hip-hop culture from its mid-70s origins. Raised in the remote beach front outpost of Far Rockaway, Queens, the final stop on the storied A train, Rammellzee discovered the art of graffiti while noticing another teen spray-painting his tag, “Sonic Bad”, at 57th Street station. Already engaged in his own personal investigation of calligraphic writing, Rammellzee was instantly fascinated.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
jacobin.com | Thurston Moore
Interview by Christopher J. Lee Thurston Moore is best known as a founding member of Sonic Youth — the canonical New York band that bridged the downtown punk rock scene of the 1970s and the alt-rock revolution of the 1990s and beyond. Along with Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, and Steve Shelley, guitarist Moore was crucial to changing the musical landscape of the 1980s and 1990s.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
undertheradarmag.com | Kyle Mullin |Thurston Moore
Web Exclusive Any artist figuratively bragging about bleeding for their craft would be stopped short by Thurston Moore’s Sonic Life: A Memoir. That’s not only because of the doorstopper’s near 500 page heft, but also because the Sonic Youth guitarist makes those pages whiz by with jolting anecdotes, including one about how he repeatedly lacerated his finger, spurting blood across the stage, while playing his famously abrasive riffs.
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May 21, 2024 | 
razorcake.org | Thurston Moore
May 21, 2024Sonic Life starts out with promise. Future Sonic Youth guitarist and vocalist Thurston Moore writes about finding punk through zines and college radio as a youth in Connecticut in the ’70s. From his late teens, he made trips to New York City to see the Ramones, Patti Smith, and other punk pioneers. He was at the epicenter of the beginnings of the genre. It’s exciting to read about such a crucial time in punk history from the view of a young adult exploring CBGBs and Max’s Kansas City.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
odt.co.nz | Thurston Moore |Akira Toriyama
Of the thousands of quotes about fear, perhaps the most famous is US President Franklin Roosevelt’s immortal line that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself". Thurston Moore, co-founder of US so-hip-it-hurts band Sonic Youth, would be ashamed of me. When Andy Buchanan was young, he lived on Christchurch’s Port Hills. This new edition tells the story of the unsuccessful Welsh challenge, and more details on Baldwin Sts last couple of decades.
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Mar 29, 2024 | 
capitolhillbooks-dc.com | Thurston Moore
Sudbury, MA: Water Row Press, 2000. Very Good +. Item #28841 Sudbury, MA: Water Row Press, 2000. First Edition, one of 3000 copies printed. Signed by Thurston Moore to Television frontman Tom Verlaine with inscription, "To Tom / Atom Smasher / Rock On, Thurston 8 ' 2000." Octavo. 111 pp. Black and white photographs. Photo-illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. Boards gently rubbed along the edges with some light general smudging. Binding sound and pages unmarked.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
tribunemag.co.uk | Thurston Moore
Thurston Moore was there. In his newly released memoir, Sonic Life, the guitarist and vocalist of the iconic Sonic Youth provides an eyewitness catalogue of over thirty-five years of underground culture, from his first teenage beers at CBGB music club to the messy dissolution of the band in 2010. Moore’s memoir is a personal history […] Thurston Moore was there.
