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The memoir explores her childhood, life in art and Sonic Youth, and marriage to and divorce from Thurston Moore. Its title, Girl in a Band, stems from a lyric in "Sacred Trickster" from Sonic Youth's final album, The Eternal (2009). The lyric goes, "What's it like to be a girl in a band?/ I don't quite understand."
Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958) [7] is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter best known as a member of the rock band Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label.
Critics have made connections between the album's lyrical themes on songs such as "Last Mistress" and Gordon's divorce from former bandmate and husband Thurston Moore in late 2011. Gordon "bleeds cathartically all over the record" [6] with her lyrics leaving her "as emotionally naked as she could possibly be."
The band broke up in 2011, at the same time as her marriage to guitarist Thurston Moore. She also spoke about what she’s learnt through her career in music.
Thurston Moore: I wanted to write about the history of Sonic Youth through my prism at some point. Our band has been out of business for a number of years, so I felt like I could write it anytime.
Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth revealed a longtime health condition had ended his book tour plans: 'This news is utterly distressing. ... [M]y memoir, 'Sonic Life,' means so much to me.'
Sonic Life was first published in the UK by Faber & Faber on October 23, 2023. [1] It was published in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House. The title is derived from a tattoo the author got to celebrate his marriage to his first wife and then-bandmate, Kim Gordon.
Thurston Moore has a new album on the way. The ex-Sonic Youth guitarist/singer is releasing Flow Critical Lucidity, his ninth studio album, on Sept. 20 through his Daydream Library Series label ...