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Thurston Moore

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By The Fire

Liberation Music: Terrie Ex & Thurston Moore Live At Incubate

Requiem For A Scream: Suicide’s ‘Punk Mass’

Sound Discrimination: April’s Rum Music By Russell Cuzner

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Thurston Moore

Demolished Thoughts

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A Quietus Interview

Confusion Is Text: Thurston Moore Interviewed

The 65-year-old post punk powerhouse has just written an autobiography and is contemplating, he tells Stevie Chick, a brand new chapter of his life, as a writer. Home page portrait by Vera Marmelo
Strange World Of...

The Strange World Of… Tom Smith/ To Live And Shave In LA

The conceptual conceit of TLASILA is founded upon dedication to chaos, sleaze, hedonism, and libidinal materialism, says Adam Lehrer, on speaking to idiosyncratic poet and contemporary druid, Tom Smith
A Quietus Interview

A Young Person’s Guide To Hitting Things: Katherina Bornefeld Of The Ex Interviewed

Our man in Rotterdam Richard Foster talks to Kat Bornefeld about her new album of healing music, Angeltalk, and a cassette called Abflug that has been many decades in the making
A Quietus Interview

Collision Course: Karl D’Silva Interviewed

Ahead of his Quietus Social show in support of Alexander Tucker (Grumbling Fur), Michael Brooks talks to multi-instrumentalist/composer Karl D’Silva about his new solo work, his formative musical experiences, and what it was like performing with the likes of Thurston Moore and GNOD
A Quietus Interview

Country Cousin: Thurston Moore On The Power Of The 12 String

Ahead of the ambitious Galaxies 12x12 project at the Barbican on April 14, Thurston Moore talks to John Doran about why he has formed an orchestra of 12 strings and how this relates to Sun Ra, Glenn Branca and his roots in No Wave...

Music of the Month

From Arca To Adult.: April’s Best New Music

Another month, another round of incredible new albums that we weren't able to give the time to that they might have deserved – and, of course, another quick nod to our favourites of the ones we've already told you about
A Quietus Interview

Mutated Tradition: An Interview With Konstrukt

Konstrukt’s avant-everything out-jazz is striking fear into the heart of jazz purists across the planet. Danny Riley caught up with their guitarist to talk tradition, techno and improvisation
A Quietus Interview

Always Organic: Cory Rayborn On 15 Years Of Three Lobed Recordings

By day, Cory Rayborn's a business and environmental lawyer, by night (often five nights in a row, packaging records by hand) he's putting out limited-run releases by the likes of Bardo Pond, Steve Gunn and Sun City Girls. As his label Three Lobed marks 15 years of operations, he talks to JR Moores
Black Sky Thinking

I’m One Of 1000 UK Artists Boycotting Israel. Here’s Why

As Thurston Moore, Miss Lauryn Hill and Primus become the latest to cancel shows in Tel Aviv, British-Palestinian musician Samir Eskanda makes the case for the boycott, with contributions from Moore and Jean-Hervé Peron of Faust. Photos by Valerio Berdini
In Conversation

“We Came From Outside”: Thurston Moore & Mark Stewart In Conversation

As The Pop Group prepare to release their first album in over three decades, Bobby Barry brings together the band's Mark Stewart with mutual fan (and fellow cloud-botherer) Thurston Moore to discuss punk, properness and Primark. Photographs courtesy of Chiara Meattelli
A Quietus Interview

N16age Riot: Thurston Moore On Stoke Newington Life

To mark his appearance at the Stoke Newington Literary Festival, we reprint an extract from New Humanist Magazine pamphlet On Community where Thurston Moore writes of his love of and life in the London area of Stoke Newington. Thurston in Abney Park cemetery photograph by Peter Beste, excellent headline by Rory Phillips
A Quietus Interview

Playing The Cosmos Song: Thurston Moore & John Sinclair On Sun Ra

Sean Kitching talks to John Sinclair of MC5, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth and Paul Smith of Blast First Petite about the life and music of Sun Ra
A Quietus Interview

Resurrection & Revenge: Michael Chapman Interviewed

Michael Chapman's is a remarkable tale: a singer/guitarist veteran of the '60s who last decade connected with US artists such as Thurston Moore and Jack Rose and started making beautiful and exploratory, improvisational music. Ahead of his performance at Supernormal Festival, he tells Russ Slater about staring at woodpiles and why he hates being called 'folk'
Black Sky Thinking

‘A Thousand Braying Asses’: Kim Gordon & Churnalism’s Busy Sewer

This week's sensationalist reframing of a nuanced profile of Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon to focus entirely upon her split from Thurston Moore, writes Paul Tucker, cast light on a wider problem
Film

Kool Things: Blank City Reviewed

Debbie Harry, Jim Jarmusch, John Waters, Lydia Lunch, Steve Buscemi and Thurston Moore are just a few of the talking heads in this documentary looking back at 'New Cinema New Wave New York'. David Pollock is entertained. Photo by Marcia Resnick
A Quietus Interview

The Demolition Man: Thurston Moore Interviewed

Thurston Moore's Demolished Thoughts is one of The Quietus's albums of 2011 so far. Here, John Doran talks to the Sonic Youth man about working with Beck and his trepidation about using the acoustic guitar

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