An Evening With Thurston Moore (Book Talk Only)

Thurston Moore
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Tuesday December 10, 2024 07:00 PM EST
Cost: $20 (book talk)
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CRITIC’S PICK: Sonic Youth founder Thurston Moore will be at the Tara Theatre on Dec. 10 for a book signing and discussion sponsored by A Cappella Books about the recently released paperback version of his book, ‘Sonic Life: A Memoir’ (the hardback was published in 2023). Former Creative Loafing music editor and author Chad Radford (‘Atlanta Record Stores: An Oral History’) will guide the discussion.Immediately following the book talk will be a screening of ‘Desolation Center’ (2020), Stuart Swezey’s documentary about the Los Angeles industrial/post-punk music scene in the early Eighties and particularly the DIY Mojave desert concerts, which blazed a path for Burning Man, Lollapalooza and Coachella. The film features performances by Sonic Youth, Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Swans, Redd Kross, Survival Research Laboratories and Einstürzende Neubauten.In addition to being a wickedly talented guitarist and songwriter, Moore is a sharply insightful observer who teaches writing at Allen Ginsberg & Anne Waldman’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder. His publishing company, Ecstatic Peace Library, publishes poetry and specialty books about esoteric subjects, such as the emergence of the Norwegian black metal scene and 70s-era avant-garde jazz. – Doug DeLoach

From the venue:

From the founding member of Sonic Youth, a passionate memoir tracing the author’s life and art—from his teen years as a music obsessive in small-town Connecticut, to the formation of his legendary rock group, to thirty years of creation, experimentation, and wonder.

A Cappella Books welcomes Thurston Moore to Atlanta’s historical Tara Theatre on Tuesday, December 10, at 7 PM to celebrate the paperback release of his recent book, “Sonic Life: A Memoir. ” The author will speak with RadATL’s Chad Radford, music journalist and author of “Atlanta Record Stores: An Oral History.”

Following the conversation and book signing, The Tara will host a screening of director Stuart Swezey’s documentary, “Desolation Center,” featuring performances by Sonic Youth, Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Swans, Redd Kross, Einstürzende Neubauten, and more. Moore will introduce the film.

About the Book

Thurston Moore moved to Manhattan’s East Village in 1978 with a yearning for music. He wanted to be immersed in downtown New York’s sights and sounds—the feral energy of its nightclubs, the angular roar of its bands, the magnetic personalities within its orbit. But more than anything, he wanted to make music—to create indelible sounds that would move, provoke, and inspire.

His dream came to life in 1981 with the formation of Sonic Youth, a band Moore cofounded with Kim Gordon and Lee Ranaldo. Sonic Youth became a fixture in New York’s burgeoning No Wave scene—an avant-garde collision of art and sound, poetry and punk. The band would evolve from critical darlings to commercial heavyweights, headlining festivals around the globe while helping introduce listeners to such artists as Nirvana, Hole, and Pavement and playing alongside such icons as Neil Young and Iggy Pop. Through it all, Moore maintained an unwavering love of music: the new, the unheralded, the challenging, the irresistible.

In the spirit of “Just Kids,” “Sonic Life” offers a window into the trajectory of a celebrated artist and a tribute to an era of explosive creativity. It presents a firsthand account of New York in a defining cultural moment, a history of alternative rock as it was birthed and came to dominate airwaves, and a love letter to music, whatever the form. This is a story for anyone who has ever felt touched by sound—who knows the way the right song at the right moment can change the course of a life.

About the Author

Thurston Moore is a founding member of Sonic Youth, a band born in New York in 1981 that spent thirty years at the vanguard of alternative rock, influencing and inspiring such acts as Nirvana, Pavement, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, My Bloody Valentine, and Beck. The band’s album “Daydream Nation” was chosen by the Library of Congress for historical preservation in the National Recording Registry in 2006. Moore is involved in publishing and poetry and teaches at the Summer Writing Workshop at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. He divides his time between the USA and England.

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