Sonic Life: The new memoir from the Sonic Youth founding member

Thurston Moore's memoir, "How to Be a Rock Star," is a captivating and insightful journey through his life as a musician and artist, from his early days in the punk scene to his time with Sonic Youth. The book provides a raw and honest account of his experiences, including his struggles with addiction and mental health, and his relationships with other musicians and artists.

Format: Hardback
Length: 496 pages
Publication date: 26 October 2023
Publisher: Faber & Faber

Thurston Moore's captivating and spirited account of the streets, songs, clothes, clubs, and contenders! A sensitive and authentic testimony to Moore's life lived through art and music. Beats with the heart of a true artist and mutineer.

Viv Albertine Downtown scientists rejoice! For Thurston Moore has unearthed the missing links, sacred texts, forgotten stories, and secret maps of the lost golden age. This is history-scuffed, slightly bent, plenty noisy, and indispensable.

Colson Whitehead 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 Youth, who proceeded to record and tour relentlessly for almost 30 years, always progressing, always exploring.

Along the way, we meet a constellation of artists and musicians who colluded and collided with Sonic Youth, including Velvet Underground, Stooges, Patti Smith, Television, Sex Pistols, Clash, Nirvana, Hole, Beastie Boys, Neil Young, and a cavalcade of other musical visionaries, as well as figures from the art world - Jean Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and Gerhard Richter.

Simply put, Thurston Moore and Sonic Youth changed the sound of modern alternative rock music and opened the minds of a generation of artists to new possibilities within the form. This is essential reading.

I thoroughly enjoyed Thurston Moore's trip down memory lane.

Weight: 774g
Dimension: 242 x 162 x 45 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780571373949
Edition number: Main