Moore, Thurston

Thurston Moore is a musician, writer, publisher, record label owner, and the founder of Sonic Youth. Currently, he performs and records solo, with various ensembles, and with his band, The Thurston Moore Group. He has worked with Yoko Ono, John Zorn, Bobby Gillespie, David Toop, Cecil Taylor, Faust, Glenn Branca, and many others. Alongside his various activities in the music world, he is involved with publishing and poetry and teaches writing at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. He is at work on his forthcoming memoir Sonic Life. Moore and his wife, Eva Prinz, operate the publishing company Ecstatic Peace Library, as well as the independent record label The Daydream Library Series.