Thurston Moore performs in the Soundcheck studio.

Thurston Moore's Latest Jangly Shimmering Guitar Bursts

Soundcheck | Jul 17, 2017

Guitarist & singer Thurston Moore blazed all kinds of musical trails with the band Sonic Youth, but even before the dissolution of the group in 2011, he was doing all kinds of outside projects, ranging from noise, drone and black metal collaborations. His latest is a solo album called Rock ‘n’Roll Consciousness, and it brings Thurston Moore here to play a couple of songs for us, one acoustic and one electric.

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