
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 |
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Most Rating | 0.665 |
Birthday | 1958-07-25 |
Place of Birth | Coral Gables, Florida, USA |
Also Known As | Sonic Youth, |

2005

Punk: Attitude
7/36
A documentary on the music, performers, attitude and distinctive look that made up punk rock.
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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
6.7/34
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
7.4/11
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
7.7/3
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
6/1
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

2020

Sonic Youth: From The Basement
0/0
Enjoy Sonic Youth’s full From The Basement set!
Track listing:
01:26 - The Sprawl
10:45 - Incinerate
16:15 - Hey Joni
20:42 - Jams Run Free
24:3...
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Sonic Youth: From The Basement

2019

Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
7/5
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!
6.5/13
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

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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Blood on the Beach

2003

Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
0/0
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
0/0
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
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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.
7.75/4
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
4.6/5
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
0/0
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
0/0
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
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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

1986

Death Valley '69
0/0
Death Valley '69 was the first music video by Sonic Youth. The video features the majority of the band in various states of bloody dismemberment inter...
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Death Valley '69

2007

Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East
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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
6.6/16
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)
7.042/24
"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
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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
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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
4.8/5
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
6.6/8
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
7/12
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
7.3/6
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
6/1
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
7.7/6
Documentary tracing the existence of noted rock band Pavement from 1989 to their final performance in late 1999.
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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
0/0
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
6.8/5
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

1991

Sonic Youth - Goo
0/0
Promotional music video collection
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Sonic Youth - Goo

2006

The Devil and Daniel Johnston
7.7/133
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
7/3
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

Daydream Nation
0/0
A concert film of Sonic Youth performing their Daydream Nation album in full at the ABC in Glasgow in 2007.
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Daydream Nation

2019

Swans: Where Does a Body End?
7.75/12
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
7.3/35
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
0/0
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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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
4/2
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.
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
6.7/15
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
7.4/81
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
5.3/20
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

2024

Pavements
0/0
Documentary about the American indie band Pavement, which combines scripts with documentary images of the band and a musical mise-en-scene composed of...
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Pavements

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 Rio 2000
0/0
The band performs at the Free Jazz Festival
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Sonic Youth: Live in Rio 2000

1998

Free Tibet
0/0
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
6/1
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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