Thurston Moore

Person · Open Library

Born

25 July 1958

Works

6

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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

Country

US

Active from

1958-07-25

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

339,862

Total plays

5,074,601

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

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 34,272x

2. Assessing the quality of reports of randomized clinical trials: Is blinding necessary?

   · 1996 · cited 13,931x

3. Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis

   · 2022 · cited 12,959x

4. Google Earth Engine: Planetary-scale geospatial analysis for everyone

   · 2017 · cited 11,694x

5. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

   · 2016 · cited 11,371x

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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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Key dates

Born

25 July 1958

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Joseph

Family name

Moore

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Coral Gables

Educated at

Western Connecticut State University

Languages spoken

English language

Genre

jazz

Instrument

bass