Thurston Moore Details Sonic Youth’s Origin Story in Sonic Life: A Memoir

Thurston Moore and Sonic Youth blasted onto the music scene in the early 1980s, delivering truly unique sounds and creating musical art that led to their becoming one of the greatest, most inspiring, and most popular bands of their decade.

It’s thanks to them that bands like Pavement and Nirvana were discovered, and their collaborations with Iggy Pop and Neil Young are still some of the best-loved songs of the 80s to this day.

Now, in the pages of Sonic Life, you can go behind the scenes and take an in-depth look at the man who was the driving force and creative genius that made Sonic Youth the iconoclasts they were.

It’s a fascinating look at how inspiration shaped music and music triggered inspiration both, and how one man’s steadfast, never-changing love of the art form changed a generation.