Thurston Moore

Remembrance Rock 

Rick Derringer Gone at 77

May 27, 2025May 28, 2025 Ron Hart 0 Comments Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, Edgar Winter, Hulk Hogan, Johnny Winter, Patti Smith, Rick Derringer, RIP, Steely Dan, The McCoys, Thurston Moore, Weird Al Yankovic

Renowned guitarist blurred the lines between rock and pop

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Alternative Rock Experimental Indie Rock Rock 

Thurston Moore and Eva Prinz Say Peace Out to Physical Media 

December 19, 2024December 19, 2024 Ron Hart 3 Comments Daydream Library Series, Eva Prinz, Flow Critical Lucidity, Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore

Couple’s Daydream Library Series goes all digital in 2025

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Alternative Rock Noise Rock 

Just Being Totally Perfect: Sonic Nurse Turns 20

June 8, 2024June 8, 2024 Dan Weiss 1 Comment 2004, 20th Anniversary, Goo, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Mariah Carey, Murray Street, Rather Ripped, Sonic Nurse, Sonic Youth, Steve Shelley, Thurston Moore

Looking back on a high watermark in the Sonic Youth catalog

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Alternative Rock Experimental Indie Rock Noise Post-Punk Rock 

Tower of Glower: On Sonic Youth’s Walls Have Ears

February 16, 2024February 17, 2024 Raymond Cummings 0 Comments 1986, Bad Moon Rising, Bob Bert, Brighton, Goofin' Records, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, London, Sonic Youth, Steve Shelley, Thurston Moore, UK, Walls Have Ears

How the band learned to stop worrying and love the bootleg

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Alternative Rock Experimental Noise Post-Punk Punk Rock 

The Sprawl: Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation Turns 35

October 18, 2023October 18, 2023 Kara Tucker 0 Comments 1988, 35th Anniversary, Daydream Nation, James Chance, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Sister, Sonic Youth, Steve Shelley, Teenage Jesus and The Jerks, Thurston Moore

Honoring the album that unlocked the band’s fully realized vision

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Punk Rock 

Bad Mood Rising: Be Your Own Pet Return With Mommy

August 27, 2023August 27, 2023 Dan Weiss 0 Comments 2023, Be Your Own Pet, Iggy Pop, Jack White, Jamin Orrall, JEFF the Brotherhood, Jemina Pearl, John Eatherly, Jonas Stein, Mommy, Third Man Records, Thurston Moore, Turbo Fruits

How the best (punk) band of the 2000s clawed their way back after 15 years of silence

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Indie Rock Remembrance 

Gary Young, Original Pavement Drummer, Gone at 70

August 18, 2023August 18, 2023 Ron Hart 0 Comments California, Gary Young, Gary Young’s Hospital, Pavement, RIP, Slanted and Enchanted, Stockton, Thurston Moore

“His enthusiasm for playing live music was relentless and unrepentant”

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Music Journalism 

Famous Quotes Vol. 46: July 2023

July 30, 2023July 30, 2023 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments Amanda Palmer, Benny & Joon, Charlie Reid, Craig Reid, Famous Quotes, Jaz Coleman, Jim Sullivan, Killing Joke, Kim Gordon, Neil Gaiman, Otis Redding, Paul Ferguson, Sonic Youth, The Consolers, The Dresden Dolls, The Proclaimers, Thurston Moore

Veteran rock critic Jim Sullivan looks back on a career of epic interviews in the latest installment of his inquisitive column

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Alternative Rock Experimental Indie Rock Noise Pop Rock 

Your Neck Is My Favorite: Sonic Youth’s A Thousand Leaves Turns 25

May 12, 2023May 13, 2023 Dan Weiss 2 Comments 1998, 25th Anniversary, A Thousand Leaves, Geffen Records, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Sonic Youth, Steve Shelley, Sunday, Thurston Moore, Wharton Tiers

How do you explain your favorite album?

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Alternative Rock Experimental Noise Pop Rock 

Get Your Hands Off My Tomato: Sonic Youth’s Murray Street Turns 20

July 27, 2022July 27, 2022 Ted Miller 0 Comments 2002, 20th Anniversary, DGC Records, Jim O'Rourke, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Murray St., Murray Street, Sonic Youth, Steve Shelley, Thurston Moore

On their most melodic album since Washing Machine, the NYC rock greats returned to a city they never left

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Alternative Rock Indie Rock Noise Pop Rock 

All You Men Are Slime: Sonic Youth’s Dirty at 30

July 27, 2022 Raymond Cummings 2 Comments 1992, 30th Anniversary, Beat Happening, Boredoms, Daniel Johnston, DGC, Dinosaur Jr., Dirty, Flipper, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Nirvana, Shonen Knife, Sonic Youth, Steve Shelley, Thurston Moore

It might not be their best record, but remains a sentimental fan favorite all these years later

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Punk Remembrance 

Friends and Fans Mourn The Loss Of Howie Pyro

May 6, 2022May 6, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments D-Generation, Danzig, Freaks, Howie Pyro, Jesse Malin, Manic Panic, Miriam Linna, NYC, Reagan Youth, RIP, The Blessed, Thurston Moore

Jesse Malin, Thurston Moore, Bebe Buell and others take to social media to say goodbye to a beloved NYC icon

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Indie Rock Post-Punk 

The Dream Songs of Tim Foljahn

June 3, 2021June 3, 2021 Brad Cohan 0 Comments Chris Brokaw, I Dreamed A Dream, Male Slut, Smokey Hormel, Sonic Youth, Spastic Rhythm Tarts, The Crucifucks, Thurston Moore, Tim Foljahn, Two Dollar Guitar

From his hardcore days, Two Dollar Guitar, Male Slut and Psychic Hearts with Thurston Moore to I Dreamed A Dream, the Hoboken lifer trudges onward   

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Alternative Rock Experimental Indie Rock 

ALBUMS: The Freewheeling Thurston Moore

December 7, 2020October 2, 2023 Raymond Cummings 0 Comments 2020, By The Fire, Daydream Library, Deb Googe, James Sedwards, My Bloody Valentine, Steve Shelley, Thurston Moore

On By The Fire, Moore and company tease his singer-songwriter muse further out

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Alternative Rock Noise Pop Post-Punk 

‘The Guitar Guy Played Real Good Feedback’: Sonic Youth’s ‘Washing Machine’ At 25

September 28, 2020September 26, 2025 Zachary Corsa 0 Comments 1995, 25th Anniversary, Goo, Kim Deal, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, NYC Ghosts & Flowers, Sonic Youth, Steve Shelley, The Diamond Sea, Thurston Moore, Washing Machine

Looking back at an overlooked but fiercely loved classic from the NYC noise rock giants

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