878. Thurston Moore

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Books, Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Thurston Moore is a founding member of the band Sonic Youth and the author of a new memoir entitled Sonic Life, available from Doubleday Books. Moore helped found Sonic Youth in New York in 1981 and spent the ensuing thirty years at the vanguard of alternative rock, influencing and inspiring such acts as Nirvana, Pavement, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, My Bloody Valentine, and Beck. The band's album Daydream Nation was chosen by the Library of Congress for historical preservation in the National Recording Registry in 2006. Moore is involved in publishing and poetry and teaches at the Summer Writing Workshop at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. He divides his time between the USA and England. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch Twitter Instagram TikTok Bluesky Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.3	Blue Sky. So my guest today is Thurston Moore, founding member of the band Sonic Youth and author of a new
0:41.5	memoir entitled Sonic Life. I was hyper aware of something going on in downtown New York that I
0:49.7	was very interested in. I had already sort of been interested in music coming out of New York City, whether it was the New York Dolls or there was a band called the
0:59.9	dictators that were early on, you know. And to me, you know, if it had anything to do with with urban
1:08.5	music and the kind of chaos that it kind of implied.
1:13.4	I was just like really, I just was interested in what was going on in the wild side of rock, you know.
1:18.7	Okay, that was Thurston Moore.
1:21.6	His new memoir is called Sonic Life, available now from Doubleday.
1:31.3	Sonic Life traces the creative history of Thurston Moore's existence from his teenage years as a music obsessive in small town Connecticut
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