Thurston Moore

A music-obsessed retrospective, beginning with his childhood epiphany of rock 'n' roll in the early 1960s into an infatuation with the subversive world of 1970s punk and no wave blasting forth from New York City – where he eventually runs off to join a band in 1978. By 1981 Moore would form the legendary and notorious experimental rock group Sonic...

The Sonic Youth frontman takes us from a 1960s childhood rock 'n' roll epiphany, through the subversive world of 1970s punk blasting forth from New York City, to traversing the globe with a band who changed the sound of modern alternative rock music and opened the minds of a generation of artists.

A music-obsessed retrospective, beginning with his childhood epiphany of rock 'n' roll in the early 1960s, leads into an infatuation with the subversive world of 1970s punk and no wave blasting forth from New York City—where he eventually runs off to join a band in 1978. By 1981, Moore would form the legendary and notorious experimental rock group Sonic Youth,...