Thurston Moore
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"Thurston Joseph Moore" 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 Stones 2004 edition of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time." In May 2012, Spin (magazine)/Spin published a staff-selected top 100 ranking Moore and his Sonic Youth bandmate Lee Ranaldo together on number 1.

In 2012, Moore started a new band Chelsea Light Moving, with their first track, "Burroughs", released as a free download. Chelsea Light Moving's Chelsea Light Moving (album)/eponymous debut was released on March 5, 2013.

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I had no interest in an actor who has a band. But then I realized he was just some (New) Jersey kid who moved to New York to play in a band, and the whole acting thing was just something he fell into. Music was his real deal.

When I'm here, I get stressed out because there so much good stuff I want to see, and it's all at the same time.

Last year was such a sick show; we're psyched to come back again. We love playing empty shows. It reminds us how D-list we really are.