Thurston Moore
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 a staff-selected top 100 ranking Moore and his Sonic Youth bandmate Lee Ranaldo together on number 1.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.3534 |
| Birthday | 1958-07-25 |
| Place of Birth | Coral Gables, Florida, USA |
| Also Known As | Sonic Youth, |
2005
Punk: Attitude
7.068/37
From London's 1970 mod scene to Sonic Youth, punk music has always been about attitude and anarchy. This comprehensive rockumentary traces the roots o...
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Punk: Attitude
1991
Notebook
0/0
Early Lee Ranaldo short film with spoken word narration. Utilizes some of the same Sonic Youth tour footage as the ‘TeenAge Riot’ video.
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Notebook
1992
1991: The Year Punk Broke
6.757/37
David Markey's documentary of life on the road with Sonic Youth and Nirvana during their tour of Europe in late 1991. Also featuring live performances...
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1991: The Year Punk Broke
2004
Kill Your Idols
7.5/13
A 2004 documentary on thirty years of alternative rock 'n roll in NYC.Documenting the history from the genuine authenticity of No Wave to the current...
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Kill Your Idols
1999
David S. Ware
0/0
A documentary about saxophonist David S. Ware.
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David S. Ware
2004
Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
6.167/6
A compilation of 24 music videos by Sonic Youth ranging from 1990 to 2002. Collaborators include Harmony Korine, Spike Jonze, Todd Haynes, Mark Roman...
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Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
2001
25 Years of Punk
7/2
Lou Reed narrates this Television special that takes a look back at the beginnings of the punk rock movements in New York & England, the underground p...
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25 Years of Punk
2019
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
7/7
The first career-spanning documentary retrospective of Lydia Lunch's confrontational, acerbic and always electric artistry. As New York City's preemin...
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Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
2000
Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth
0/0
This portrait of the New York band Sonic Youth marking the band’s 20th anniversary covers its history from the beginnings to today. Numerous video cli...
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Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth
2008
I Need That Record!
6.4/15
Guerilla filmmaker Brendan Toller unleashes I NEED THAT RECORD! THE DEATH (OR POSSIBLE SURVIVAL) OF THE INDEPENDENT RECORD STORE, "an elegy for a vani...
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I Need That Record!
1995
Sonic Youth: Blood on the Beach
0/0
Sonic Youth's Blood on the Beach is comprised of two shows and interview clips recorded in November 1985 in Brighton, UK.
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Sonic Youth: Blood on the Beach
2003
Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
5/2
Filmed April 12, 2003 at a benefit concert held at and for The Anthology Film Archives, the international center for the preservation, study, and exhi...
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Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
2023
Louder Than You Think
6/2
Gary Young, drummer for indie-rock icons Pavement, injected a wild-card unpredictability into the band's breakthrough, lo-fi sound. But those same gon...
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Louder Than You Think
2005
Day Trip Maryanne
0/0
Day Trip Maryanne captures the collaboration between legendary sound sculptor Maryanne Amacher and guitarist Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth at her hous...
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Day Trip Maryanne
2000
Record Player: Christian Marclay
0/0
Christian demonstrates some techniques and preparations and meditates on the turntable, improvisation, and the difference between the sonic and the vi...
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Record Player: Christian Marclay
2006
Cut Shorts
8/1
A collection of short films and music videos from independent filmmaker David Markey, from 1974 to 2004.
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Cut Shorts
2010
Ecstatic Peace Archives
0/0
Lance Bangs interviews Thurston Moore about the Ecstatic Peace Archives.
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Ecstatic Peace Archives
2009
No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
10/1
the connections and energy flow between the various artists populating the 1980s sub-cultures of New York and Berlin. Features Jim Jarmusch, Lydia Lun...
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No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
2006
Kill Your Idols: More.
7.8/4
A full-length feature documentary produced in 2006 which serves as a companion piece to and is included on the DVD of the 2004 film KILL YOUR IDOLS.
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Kill Your Idols: More.
2007
Llik Your Idols
4/6
Discover the New York underground scene during the 80s and throw yourself into an exciting, anarchic and repulsive world that you won't forget.
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Llik Your Idols
1996
Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
0/0
Live at Rocknacht, Germany 1996. Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from NewYork City, formed in 1981. In their early career, Sonic Yout...
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Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
2005
Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
4.5/1
Sonic Youth's 2005 performance at Les Eurockéennes de Belfort festival, one of France's largest rock music festivals.
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Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
2024
Scala!!!
7.8/9
This feature-length big screen documentary tells the riotous inside story of the infamous sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll repertory cinema which inspired...
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Scala!!!
1989
Weatherman '69
10/1
Featuring a cast that includes Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, Mike Watt of the legendary hardcore band Minutemen, and Pettibon himself,...
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Weatherman '69
1999
Turn of the Century
0/0
Filmmaker, illustrator and musician Dame Darcy's weekly television collaboration with Blessed Elysium's Lisa Hammer aired on New York's Public Access...
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Turn of the Century
2024
Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story
0/0
Formed in 1978 by brothers Jeff and Steve McDonald, and still actively playing and recording today, Redd Kross are the ultimate rock and roll lifers....
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Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story
1995
An Introduction to Harmolodics
0/0
Ornette Coleman is always asked, “what is Harmolodics?” Harmolodics is the term he coined to describe his music and his philosophy of life. He decided...
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An Introduction to Harmolodics
2007
Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East
0/0
Filmed during their 2005 reunion tour, this release captures the sonic guitar assaults of Dinosaur Jr. onstage, playing the songs "Gargoyle," "Little...
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Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East
2012
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
2/1
Charming, intelligent and iconoclastic, Ben Lee is an Australian singer-songwriter whose creative growth since his early adolescence has undergone alm...
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Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
2025
Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
0/0
Follows the story of the groundbreaking Texas-based art-punk band founded by frontman Gibby Haynes and guitarist Paul Leary.
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Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
2005
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
6.735/17
A feature-length documentary chronicling early '80s punk rock band the Minutemen, from their beginnings in San Pedro, California, to their demise afte...
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We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
2009
From the Basement
6/2
First DVD release from this refreshingly basic UK music programme puts the music in the foreground with an impressive role call of acts. With sparse p...
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From the Basement
2015
Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)
7/24
"Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)" examines the early DIY punk scene in the Nation's Capital. It was a decade when seminal ban...
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Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)
2005
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
0/0
Cecil Taylor was the grand master of free jazz piano. "All the Notes" captures in breezy fashion the unconventional stance of this media-shy modern mu...
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Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
2016
Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape
6.4/18
Cassette inventor Lou Ottens digs through his past to figure out why the audiotape won't die. Rock veterans join a legion of young bands releasing mus...
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Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape
2024
The Road to Ruane
0/0
Billy Ruane, storied impresario of the 90s Boston indie music scene. Billy promoted shows and inspired cult-like followings of bands by the likes of T...
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The Road to Ruane
1997
Don't Bring A Dog
0/0
Don't Bring A Dog shows a part of the New York underground music scene - rooted in the early eighties - existing apart from MTV and billboard charts....
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Don't Bring A Dog
1991
Rap Damage
0/0
Thurston on a bender. Shot one day during a break on the Ragged Glory Tour. Hip Hopped-up NYC roadie Maurice Menares plays the psychotic sidekick/bunn...
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Rap Damage
1993
Grunge Pedal
0/0
Starring Vehicle for Free Kitten. Kim Gordon, Julie Cafritz, & Mark Ibold lounge on suburban lawns, jamming a guitar effects box & Japanese beat boxes...
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Grunge Pedal
1991
Goo
5.7/6
In 1991, a long-form music video version of Goo was released on VHS and LaserDisc. A music video for each song from the album was included; the track...
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Goo
2019
Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine
6.7/9
Explores the seminal music magazine from its 1969 launch in Detroit to the untimely death of its publisher Barry Kramer in 1981.
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Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine
2012
The Hardcore Collection
7.7/3
This DVD features 13 provocative short films by Richard Kern. Color & B&W film shorts with Lydia Lunch, Henry Rollins and more. Includes Death Valley...
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The Hardcore Collection
1986
Sublapse Video Mag 1
8/1
Video Fanzine featuring: Half Japanese, Redd Kross with Sky Saxon as Purple Electricity, R Kern, Sonic Youth, White Flag, Psycho Daisies, Charlie Pick...
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Sublapse Video Mag 1
2007
365 Day Project
10/1
This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007 and for...
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365 Day Project
2011
Blank City
7.1/15
In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire circu...
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Blank City
1993
Changing Fashions
0/0
Anthony Kiedis and Sofia Coppola try to escape the fashion influence of Debbie Harry.
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Changing Fashions
2017
The Public Image Is Rotten
7.4/7
British rock icon John Lydon and fellow bandmates recall the years they spent performing as Public Image Ltd.
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The Public Image Is Rotten
1994
Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos
7.5/2
Documentary that gives a voice to the percentage of youth that were outcasts/non-conformists in the 90's. Interviews many famous musicians and other c...
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Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos
2017
Teenage Superstars
7.5/2
Grant McPhee's sequel to Big Gold Dream picks up where the previous film left off, and continues its thrilling tour of the pre-Britpop, Scottish music...
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Teenage Superstars
2002
Pavement: Slow Century
7.625/8
Documentary tracing the existence of noted rock band Pavement from 1989 to their final performance in late 1999. The first hour is the history of the...
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Pavement: Slow Century
2011
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
7.5/12
From myth to legend Rowland Howard appeared on the early Melbourne punk scene like a phantom out of Kafkaesque Prague or Bram Stoker’s Dracula. A beau...
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Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
2014
It's Not Repetition, It's Discipline
0/0
Dandelion Records and DVD's present Probably the nearest you will ever get to an official documentary on Mark E Smith and The Fall. Put together over...
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It's Not Repetition, It's Discipline
2004
(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
7/1
While planning the eventual DVD release for "1991: The Year Punk Broke", Dave Markey cut a 40-minute film out of unused footage to create a companion...
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(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
2013
I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney
7/6
This documentary tells the story of Mudhoney from their very beginnings, to following them on their recent world tour and everything in between. Compl...
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I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney
2006
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
7.7/141
This 2005 documentary film chronicles the life of Daniel Johnston, a manic-depressive genius singer/songwriter/artist, from childhood up to the presen...
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The Devil and Daniel Johnston
2007
You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson
6.4/12
Documentary about rock pioneer Roky Erickson, detailing his rise as a psychedelic hero, his lengthy institutionalization, his descent into poverty and...
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You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson
2018
Desolation Center
9.3/3
The untold story of a series of Reagan-era guerrilla punk and industrial desert happenings in Southern California that are now recognized as the inspi...
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Desolation Center
2003
Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage
0/0
Quintessential alternative rockers, Sonic Youth, celebrate free-form experimentalism while reinforcing their performance-art driven tradition in this...
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Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage
1988
Put More Blood Into the Music
7.75/4
PBS produced documentary in two parts: the first is dedicated to saxophonist and composer John Zorn; the second is about Sonic Youth at the height of...
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Put More Blood Into the Music
2019
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
0/0
A concert film of Sonic Youth performing their Daydream Nation album in full with a bonus encore of Rather Ripped songs at the ABC in Glasgow in 2007.
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Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
2019
Swans: Where Does a Body End?
7.9/14
From their roots as a brutal, confrontational industrial band, through breakups and chaos, to their odds-defying current status as one of the most acc...
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Swans: Where Does a Body End?
2009
Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
8/1
An East Village performance space fought against the Bowery homeless shelter who threatened to shut them down. Some of the most iconic figures in musi...
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Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
2019
Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond
0/0
As a fixture of the New York music scene for 30 years, Sonic Youth performed in New York City innumerable times, and served as ersatz cultural ambassa...
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Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond
2010
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
7.3/37
A thoughtful portrait of a renowned artist, this documentary shines the spotlight on New York City painter Jean-Michel Basquiat. Featuring extensive i...
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Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
1988
Lou Believers
0/0
Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, and Lou Reed roam the streets of Los Angeles searching for James Woods.
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Lou Believers
2019
SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
10/1
A fly-on-the-wall documentary about the recording of the music score by Sonic Youth.
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SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
2006
Noise
4.8/5
Footage from 2005’s Festival Art Rock in Saint-Brieuc, France, featuring Metric, Sonic Youth, Jeanne Balibar, and other acts.
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Noise
Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985
10/1
A video documenting Sonic Youth's performance at the Gila Monster Jamboree. Taking place in a remote location in the Mojave Desert, this was the bands...
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Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985
2020
Thick Air
6.8/4
An experimental music ensemble is recording an album. They want a very specific sound: the sound of thick air. The sound engineer struggles to underst...
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Thick Air
2007
Welcome to My Castle!
0/0
Over 5 hours of full-length interviews with Nirvana, Tommy Chong, Sonic Youth, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Ron Jeremy, and many more. Includes videos of Na...
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Welcome to My Castle!
1995
The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
4/4
Comedy troupe The State hosts a Halloween special on CBS.
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The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
2021
Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
7.8/3
The American indie rock band “Dinosaur Jr.” is a radical group with an unmistakeable sound. The film tells the story the three charismatic guys in the...
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Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
2021
Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
6.618/17
The death of punk icon and X-Ray Spex front-woman Poly Styrene sends her daughter on a journey through her mother's archives in this intimate document...
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Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
2021
The Sparks Brothers
7.3/96
Take a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers Ron & Russell Mael, celebrating the inspiring legacy of Sparks: your fav...
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The Sparks Brothers
1986
Submit to Me
5.318/22
Cinema of Transgression pioneers and participants (Lydia Lunch, Lung Leg, Nick Zedd, etc.) perform a series of acts as they submit to director Richard...
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Submit to Me
2008
New York Rock at the BBC
6.5/2
Celebrating the cream of the New York rock scene, including classic performances from the Ramones, New York Dolls, Television, Blondie, Lou Reed and m...
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New York Rock at the BBC
1991
Skeeno H.C. Rules
0/0
Sonic Youth play hockey arena w/ Neil Young in Reno, Nevada. Ten years earlier 7 Seconds recorded the earnest hardcore classic "Skins, Brains, & Guts"...
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Skeeno H.C. Rules
2011
Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
0/0
The final Sonic Youth concert
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Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
2000
Sonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000
0/0
The band performs at the Free Jazz Festival
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Sonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000
1998
Free Tibet
8/1
A film about the Tibetan Freedom Concert in San Francisco in 1996.
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Free Tibet
1995
Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
7/4
I Just Wasn't Made for These Times is a documentary about the life of Brian Wilson, the musical mastermind and songwriter for the Beach Boys. The film...
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Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
2005
Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
8/1
Sun Ra was born on the planet Saturn some time ago. The best accounts agree that he emerged on Earth as Herman Blount, born in Birmingham, Alabama in...
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Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
2010
Sonic Youth & The Black Keys: Live at Austin City Limits 2011
0/0
ACL presents the evolution of electric guitar music with Sonic Youth and the Black Keys. Sonic Youth showcases the avant-garde rock of its latest albu...
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Sonic Youth & The Black Keys: Live at Austin City Limits 2011
2025
Pavements
6.846/13
'90s indie-rock band Pavement reunites for their sold-out 2022 tour. But as preparations get underway, surreal tributes emerge: an off-Broadway musica...
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Pavements
1985
Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree
0/0
This was a concert video released thru Sonic Death, filmed on January 5th, 1985 in the Mojave Desert. This was SY's first west coast excursion.
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Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree
1998
Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 1998
0/0
Rockpalast Festival, Lorelei, Germany
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Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 1998
2002
Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 2002
0/0
July 11, 2002 E-Werk Cologne, Germany
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Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 2002
2001
Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music
0/0
The hallmarks of popular music - artist independence and diversity of voices - are threatened by a contracting marketplace of record companies, radio...
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Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music
2025
Sonic Youth: Live in 1991
0/0
Sonic Youth in 1991 on Neil Young's Smell the Horse tour, captured by Crazy Horse Guitar/Bass Tech Mondo aka Armando Garcia.
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Sonic Youth: Live in 1991
1993
Sonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa
0/0
Sonic Youth's first concert in Portugal.
Recorded Live at Campo Pequeno Lisbon, Portugal July 14, 1993
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Sonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa
1998
Sonic Youth: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim
0/0
Concert given by Sonic Youth on Friday, August 7, 1998, as part of the Benicàssim International Festival. Broadcast on Sputnik Concert (Channel 33) a...
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Sonic Youth: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim
2011
Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival
0/0
The second last show on Sonic Youth's sad final stanza, a festival tour of South America that eventually took them to Chile for the Maquinaria Festiva...
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Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival
2024
Uncropped
8.5/2
A legendary Village Voice photojournalist recounts the stories behind iconic images taken over the course of a five-decade career. A visual chronicle...
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Uncropped
1995
Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love
0/0
All of the band 80's music videos along with some live performances
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Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love
1988
Sonic Youth: 930 Club
0/0
Proshot footage from the band's 1988 tour.
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Sonic Youth: 930 Club
1986
Sonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis
0/0
Rare proshot from 1986
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Sonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis
2005
Classic Albums: Nirvana - Nevermind
7/37
Nirvana's groundbreaking 1991 album NEVERMIND raised the Seattle trio to the status of Godhead, forever changing the face of the pop music market. "He...
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Classic Albums: Nirvana - Nevermind
1994
Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!
7.541/37
Nirvana's frontman Kurt Cobain worked on compiling this collection of performances, interviews, and touring clips from 1991 to 1993 but did not finish...
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Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!
Sonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996
0/0
June 16, 1996 Golden Gate Park San Francisco
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Sonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996
Tibetan Freedom Concert
0/0
Documentary surrounding the festival.
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Tibetan Freedom Concert
2026
Broken English
7/2
A survivor, provocateur and true original, Marianne has spent more than six decades defying expectations — releasing over thirty-five albums while con...
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Broken English
2014
Station to Station
6.8/10
Sending a burning arrow into the stunting effects that the compartmentalization of culture has on how creativity manifests, visual artist Doug Aitken...
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Station to Station
2026
The Last Critic
0/0
Sixty years & a million records ago, Robert Christgau invented Rock music criticism. Anyone who has ever read or written a Pop music review has been i...
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The Last Critic
2000
The Hardcore Collection
0/0
A fringe film collective of edge-dwelling New York nihilist punks and crazies whose main pathological protagonist triumvirate were voyeur smackhead Ri...
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The Hardcore Collection
2013
Lou Reed - Remembered
6.5/2
Film tribute to Lou Reed, who died in October, which looks at the extraordinarily transgressive life and career of one of rock 'n' roll's true origina...
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