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Thurston Moore

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    May 7, 2012

    Live: Thurston Moore And John Zorn Offer A Brief, Noisy Sermon At St. Mark's Church

    Thurston Moore/John Zorn Duo St. Mark's Church Friday, May 4 Better than: Bumming about MCA alone. Free improvisation always has religious overtones—the major free-jazzers of the '60s acknowledged this with album titles like Ascension and Spiritual Unity—so there is hardly a better spa ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    February 1, 2012

    SWEET NOISE

    Thurston Moore shows off his folky side

  • Blogs

    August 15, 2011

    Live: Sonic Youth Get Caught Between Bad Moon Rising and New York City

    Sonic Youth w/Wild Flag, Kurt Vile Williamsburg Waterfront Friday, August 12 Better than: Listening to a playlist of the set on Spotify. Just before Sonic Youth played "Starfield Road," from 1994's Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, at Friday night's Williamsburg Waterfront gig, singer-guit ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    August 10, 2011

    'John Zorn Improv Night'

    Sonic Youth w/Wild Flag, Kurt Vile Williamsburg Waterfront Friday, August 12 Better than: Listening to a playlist of the set on Spotify. Just before Sonic Youth played "Starfield Road," from 1994's Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, at Friday night's Williamsburg Waterfront gig, singer-guit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2011

    Highlights From The Holiday Weekend: Good Hair, Better Sightlines At Monster Island And Bruar Falls

    ​ In Waste Of Paint, our writer/artist team of Jamie Peck and Debbie Allen will review goings-on about town in words and images. Does anyone who goes to local rock shows actually have their shit together enough to get out of town on Independence Day? I didn't used to think so, but now I can s ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    April 13, 2011

    Kim Gordon

    ​ In Waste Of Paint, our writer/artist team of Jamie Peck and Debbie Allen will review goings-on about town in words and images. Does anyone who goes to local rock shows actually have their shit together enough to get out of town on Independence Day? I didn't used to think so, but now I can s ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    November 3, 2010

    Northampton Wools

    ​ In Waste Of Paint, our writer/artist team of Jamie Peck and Debbie Allen will review goings-on about town in words and images. Does anyone who goes to local rock shows actually have their shit together enough to get out of town on Independence Day? I didn't used to think so, but now I can s ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    October 20, 2010

    NYC NOISE

    A look back at No Wave

  • Voice Choices

    August 18, 2010

    WHITE NOISE

    How many bands can Thurston Moore be in?

  • Voice Choices

    August 4, 2010

    Outer Space+Sexxxual Iceland+Drainolith

    How many bands can Thurston Moore be in?

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2010

    Brooklyn's Shark? Become Another Kickstarter Success Story, Now Just Have To Write Songs About Subjects Random Benefactors Choose

    L Magazine's repeatedly endorsed these lo-fi monsters, having them play more than anyone else at last month's Northside Festival, getting the official Conklin must-see nod, and doling out an Honorable Mention in their annual 8 NYC Bands You Need To Hear series. And with good reason. The foursome's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2010

    Watch Thurston Moore Make Noise Music With Tiny Children

    OK, we take it all back--this is cutest, most awesome free improv set ever. Just look at the tiny children tottering around, pressing buttons, turning knobs, and manhandling guitars! Some of them can't even properly stand up yet! The looming spectre of aging yuppie bad-parent hipsterism passed ove ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2010

    This Weekend! Ted Leo, Screaming Females, Sundelles, Arms, Sea Monsters, MiniBoone, The Trombone Festival, Doveman, Mirror/Dash, Wild Babies, Twin Sister, and BalĂșn

    TedLeo.comTed Leo loves popcorn more than you​Everyone's favorite "goddamn American hero," Ted Leo, will be chord-chugging tonight at the Fillmore with Screaming Females. Though if you've been offended by his karaoke criticism, you can always check out mindlessly ecstatic lo-fiers the Sundelle ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2010

    Week in Review: THIS CAN'T BE GOOD!!

    Figured this one deserved an encore.​In the week Aimee Mann heard the phrase "Eat a hot bowl of dicks" for the first time, we made suggestions for her inevitable reconciliation with Ice-T, whose acting she at first did not sufficiently respect. Perhaps it'll involve Key Largo, Jon Brion, "Cop ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2010

    Tonight! Plastic Ono Band (For Real This Time), Wavves, Lightspeed Champion, and Bear Hands

    ​Today, Yoko Ono is busy assembling the year's most disparate backing group. After yesterday's "dress rehearsal," her reincarnated Plastic Ono Band will be performing at BAM, with guests ranging from Eric Clapton to Sean Lennon to ... the Scissor Sisters? Also included in the lineup are Mark R ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    February 16, 2010

    Richard Hell+Dorothea Lasky+Thurston Moore

    ​Today, Yoko Ono is busy assembling the year's most disparate backing group. After yesterday's "dress rehearsal," her reincarnated Plastic Ono Band will be performing at BAM, with guests ranging from Eric Clapton to Sean Lennon to ... the Scissor Sisters? Also included in the lineup are Mark R ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2010

    Jerzify Your Favorite Indie Stars: Thom Yorke, Feist, Hipster Runoff, and More

    Leslie "The Opportunity" Feist This isn't the dumbest way we've ever spent an hour in the workplace, but it's certainly up there. The most idiotically laughable meme of the past few days goes to Jerzify Yourself, the inevitable Jersey Shore personal-transformation site in the glute vein of such pop ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2010

    Yoko Ono Reforms Plastic Ono Band For One Ridiculous New York Show

    ​Last September's Between My Head and the Sky was Yoko Ono's first record as Plastic Ono Band since 1973's Feeling the Space. John Lennon produced the first; his son Sean handled the second, and now comes word that the Plastic Ono Band will once again perform as well. So far, it's just two dat ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    December 15, 2009

    Bardo Pond+White Out

    ​Last September's Between My Head and the Sky was Yoko Ono's first record as Plastic Ono Band since 1973's Feeling the Space. John Lennon produced the first; his son Sean handled the second, and now comes word that the Plastic Ono Band will once again perform as well. So far, it's just two dat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2009

    News Roundup: Method Man Tax Evasion, Slumberland Anniversary, Thurston Moore, Momus

    ​--Oops. Not much came of Method Man allegedly shooting a fan in the face with an air gun, or a friend in the leg with a BB, but evading those $32,799 in income taxes over three years landed the Staten Island rapper at the 120 Police Precinct stationhouse this morning. "Taxes are the burden th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2009

    Good Morning, Thurston Moore

    ​Pretty much every human on planet Earth would look as punk as Thurston Moore does when sandwiched between Gossip Girl's two crispiest male leads. But he still looks punk as fuck. This by way of Sonic Youth's appearance on the episode airing on October 12--Moore's second cameo on the show, if ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2009

    News Roundup: Aerosmith Cancels Tour, Sujfan Nearly On Sale, Sonic Youth on Gossip Girl

    ​--The rapidly decaying corpse of Aerosmith called the whole thing off today, canceling the rest of the band's AeroForceOne summer tour. Frontman Steven Tyler danced his way right off the stage at a motorcycle rally in Sturgis, SD last week, shattering his shoulder and amusing the entire inter ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    August 11, 2009

    Thurston Moore & Bill Nace

    ​--The rapidly decaying corpse of Aerosmith called the whole thing off today, canceling the rest of the band's AeroForceOne summer tour. Frontman Steven Tyler danced his way right off the stage at a motorcycle rally in Sturgis, SD last week, shattering his shoulder and amusing the entire inter ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2009

    Week in Review: I Want to Be Michael Jackson When I Grow Up

    The news that obliterated the week that was: MJ. Our remembrance here, plus the complete Michael Jackson Voice archives, as written by the dream team of Robert Christgau, Chuck Eddy, Greg Tate, Vince Aletti, Stanley Crouch, Guy Trebay, Nelson George, Elvis Mitchell, Simon Frith, and Scott Poulson-Br ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    April 29, 2009

    Nels Cline

    The news that obliterated the week that was: MJ. Our remembrance here, plus the complete Michael Jackson Voice archives, as written by the dream team of Robert Christgau, Chuck Eddy, Greg Tate, Vince Aletti, Stanley Crouch, Guy Trebay, Nelson George, Elvis Mitchell, Simon Frith, and Scott Poulson-Br ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2009

    Home Team Roundup: Psychic Ills, Clap Your Hands Say Nope Thank You

    Sound of the City roots for the home team and so does Impose Magazine's Jeremy Krinsley. Psychic Ills will not rouse a large enough massive to encourage a large scale war of words, but there's a small, pitched battle drawn between those who are underwhelmed by their slow-boiling new collection on ... More >>

  • Music

    November 26, 2008

    Regarding David Bowie's Music-Videos at MoMA

    One man's total reinvention, live

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2008
  • Voice Choices

    September 10, 2008

    GOING, GOING, GONE!

    Bid on original pieces by Thurston and Yoko

  • Voice Choices

    September 3, 2008

    GUITAR HEROES

    Big names in rock celebrate the beloved Jazzmaster

  • Voice Choices

    September 3, 2008

    READ HERE OFTEN?

    The perfect place to meet that special bibliophile

  • Voice Choices

    August 19, 2008

    YOUR ONLY VICE

    The photos are dirtier than ever

  • Music

    June 17, 2008

    The Brief Return of Teenage Jesus & the Jerks

    Lydia Lunch deigns to viciously insult her adoring fans once again

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2008

    No Context: Empire II Screens, Thurston Moore Scores

    Lydia Lunch deigns to viciously insult her adoring fans once again

  • Music

    April 8, 2008

    Experimental Musicians in a Post-Tonic Universe

    Downtown innovators like White Out fight for survival in a brave, disquieting new world

  • Music

    April 1, 2008

    Tall Firs' Too Old to Die Young

    More long-past-teenage riots

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2007

    CMJ Day 1.5: Thurston Moore Vs. the iPhone

    More long-past-teenage riots

  • Music

    September 11, 2007

    When Free Radicals Become Free Agents

    Thurston Moore goes folk, exploits Starbucks, and walks his dog, Merzbow

  • Music

    January 16, 2007

    More Fun Fest

    The monthlong Independents festival turns Gowanus into a home-grown experimental mecca

  • Music

    December 19, 2006

    Kool Things Remembered

    Touring the frustrating but frequently brilliant Sonic Youth archives

  • Music

    May 30, 2006

    Rather Exhilarating

    The best band in the universe do their Brecht thing with hooks

  • Columns

    July 19, 2005

    NY Mirror

    The best band in the universe do their Brecht thing with hooks

  • Screens

    June 28, 2005

    screens

    The best band in the universe do their Brecht thing with hooks

  • Music

    June 7, 2005

    High Fidelity

    From A to B and back again: this is your correspondent, running out of mix tapes

  • Specials

    August 17, 2004

    Letters

    From A to B and back again: this is your correspondent, running out of mix tapes

  • Film

    August 19, 2003

    Millennial Bohemian Rhapsody

    Whole Intellects Disgorged in Total Recall for Seven Days and Nights in Downtown Howl

  • Music

    July 18, 2000

    Bridge Across the Cliff

    Whole Intellects Disgorged in Total Recall for Seven Days and Nights in Downtown Howl

  • Music

    June 6, 2000

    Music

    Whole Intellects Disgorged in Total Recall for Seven Days and Nights in Downtown Howl

  • Music

    May 12, 1998

    Rubicon Beach

    Sonic Youth in Occupied America

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