Transmissions is back with a special episode: Tyler Wilcox in conversation with underground music lifers Thurston Moore and Kramer. On May 1, the duo release their new album together, They Came Like Swallows – Seven Requiems for the Children of Gaza, out on Ethan Miller’s Silver Current Records, and ahead of their appearance this week at Big Ears Music Festival in Knoxville, Wilcox caught up with them to discuss the new collaboration, their storied history together, and that time the Butthole Surfers freaked out Alex Chilton. They join us to kick off our Big Ears 2026 coverage.
Category: Thurston Moore
Thurston Moore & Eva Moore From The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University :: A Conversation
On the occasion of his 66th birthday, Thurston Moore and his wife and creative partner Eva Moore drop in from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University to discuss collaboration and that time Henry Rollins grew out his hair.
Thurston Moore :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Thurston Moore scarcely needs an introduction, nor do we need a specific reason to want to chat with the 62-year-old artist. There is, though, a hook for this particular chat: the release of By The Fire, a new studio effort by the Thurston Moore Group. Recorded in London, the album is all radiant heat and kaleidoscopic arrangements which join together in oozing consort and tickling friction. Shooting through this mass of sound are lyrics, written by Moore or transgender poet Radieux Radio, that are rich with poetic detail and reveal a deep craving for experience and human connection.
AD Presents: Thurston Moore Group @ The Teragram – May 13th
Dig. This Saturday night in Los Angeles, AD presents the Thurston Moore Group to the Teragram Ballroom with special guest Marisa Anderson . Tickets available ahead on time, here …and we have a few pairs socked away for […]
Thurston Moore :: The Best Day
Thurston Moore’s solo records have always been an interesting barometer to his state of mind outside of Sonic Youth. Psychic Hearts, his solo debut, was the most Sonic Youth of any of his solo albums, […]
Thurston Moore :: Interview, September 1988 (Part1)
Caveat emptor: The following is recommended for fellow Sonic Youth nerds only, so no comments about ‘banality’ below, k? Alright, for those of you still reading, this is like a late 80s lower east side […]
Thurston Moore :: Demolished Thoughts
For all the legacy of Sonic Youth’s noise-laden, avant-garde beginnings and the continued examination of it through their later work, founding member Thurston Moore’s solo albums have always been a touch more pop leavened. 2007’s Trees Outside the Academy was even […]
Thurston Moore :: Benediction (Demolished Thoughts)
Earlier today Matador Records released the first taste from Thurston Moore’s upcoming (third) solo album, Demolished Thoughts. Produced by Beck, “Benediction” easily falls in line with the more subdued tone of Moore’s last solo outing, 2007’s […]
Aquarium Drunkard Presents :: Thurston Moore
Touring in support of his second solo LP, Trees Outside The Academy , An Aquarium Drunkard presents Thurston Moore , live in Los Angeles, October 30th at The Echoplex . We have five pairs of tickets to give away to A.D. readers. To […]
Thurston Moore :: Outside The Academy (Interview)
Thurston Moore :: The Shape Is In A Trance
Not surprisingly, Thurston Moore’s upcoming solo album, Trees Outside The Academy , (Sept 18 via Ecstatic Peace ) has been getting a lot of our attention since catching Sonic Youth’s performance of Daydream Nation , in its entirety, at the Greek […]
Thurston Moore :: Trees Outside The Academy
Thurston Moore has announced his new solo album, Trees Outside The Academy, to be released on his label Ecstatic Peace this September. Thurston’s first solo outing since 1995’s Psychic Hearts , Trees Outside The Academy is a 12 song affair with […]