{"id":42089,"date":"2025-04-22T21:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T21:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/42089\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T21:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T21:18:11","slug":"thurston-moore-on-the-chances-of-a-sonic-youth-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/42089\/","title":{"rendered":"Thurston Moore on the chances of a Sonic Youth reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thurston Moore<\/a>\u00a0has opened up about the chances of a Sonic Youth<\/a> reunion in a new interview.<\/p>\n

The former frontman of the New York band, which featured his ex-wife Kim Gordon<\/a>, guitarist Lee Ranaldo and drummer Steve Shelley, went their separate ways in 2011 after 30 years together.\u00a0The band split following Moore\u2019s acrimonious divorce from Gordon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a new interview with Billboard<\/a>, Moore has now seemingly closed down any hopes of a reunion of the beloved band in the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe covered so much territory that I don\u2019t feel like it was a story left on untold. I think it really had a nice trajectory, and it certainly doesn\u2019t feel unfinished to me,\u201d he told the outlet.<\/p>\n

Back in 2014, Moore discussed his split with Gordon<\/a>, saying: \u201cI\u2019ll always have that experience of sadness that a separation brings.\u201d<\/p>\n

Addressing the separation at the time, he said: \u201cI\u2019ve had some life issues.\u201d He added: \u201cIn your 40s and 50s things can change in ways that upset the order of things that have been established over 25 years-plus of marriage. It\u2019s really distressing. You have to work through it, it\u2019s very personal and I don\u2019t really talk about it so much. It\u2019s extremely\u2026 it\u2019s just something I work through in my own world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Sonic Youth in 1986. Credit: Frans Schellekens\/Redferns<\/p>\n

The year prior to this, Gordon also opened up about the reasons behind her split from Moore, saying that it ended because of a \u201cmid-life crisis\u201d and a \u201cstarstruck woman\u201d. Moore refused to address these comments directly at the time, saying: \u201cI\u2019d rather not. We don\u2019t have stipulations with each other about who we talk to or what we say, we\u2019re our own bosses. It\u2019s not about people having a right to know, it\u2019s how much you want to publicise it. I choose not to, besides what we speak about here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moore also addressed a potential comeback in a 2023 interview with the New York Times<\/a> and was similarly pessimistic, saying: \u201cI\u2019d rather be like The Beatles<\/a> and never get back together.\u201d He did, however, acknowledge then that reuniting Sonic Youth could \u201cbe really worthwhile\u201d.<\/p>\n

On his relationship with Gordon he added: \u201cWe\u2019re adults. We can find our peace in this kind of situation. We\u2019re very connected in our family with my daughter and my nieces and everything. It\u2019s not like some hate-fest or anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking to NME in 2019, Kim Gordon opened up about the music industry and the legacy of Sonic Youth.<\/a><\/p>\n

On discussing fakery in music, she said: \u201cWell, there\u2019s a certain aspect to the irreverence to sound that I like. You can just take what you need. You know, take a reverb effect off this record and put it on this song over here. That\u2019s kind of junky in a way and I like that. But mostly I don\u2019t pay attention to the music industry. I should.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026It feels a lot apart from the world of when Sonic Youth was together and playing. One would pay more attention to that, although I didn\u2019t actually read Rolling Stone or any of those.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

On hearing Sonic Youth\u2019s sound in other bands, Gordon added: \u201cSometimes, actually. Once during this photo shoot they were playing a playlist that started with Deerhunter<\/a> and went into all this other music. At one point I thought, \u2018Is Sonic Youth\u2019 and then \u2018Is this My Bloody Valentine<\/a>?\u2019 It was this band DIIV<\/a>, and they sounded kind of interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Back in March, Gordon teamed up with Kim Deal<\/a>\u00a0to perform Sonic Youth\u2018s \u2018Little Trouble Girl\u2019. <\/a>The moment, which marked their first time ever performing live together, took place on the new Netflix<\/a> talk show Everybody\u2019s Live, hosted by John Mulaney.<\/p>\n

Gordon was the first to perform, singing her song \u2018Bye Bye\u2019 taken from her 2024 solo album \u2018The Collective<\/a>\u2018. Deal then took to the stage to play her own track \u2018Nobody Loves You More\u2019 \u2013 the title track from her debut solo album<\/a> also released last year.<\/p>\n

Then, the pair joined forces to play the Sonic Youth track \u2018Little Trouble Girl\u2019, which Deal contributed vocals to on the band\u2019s 1995 LP \u2018Washing Machine\u2019. The track is the only time Gordon and Deal have ever collaborated. Though Deal appeared in the song\u2019s music video, she never joined the band to play it live before they broke up in 2011.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile in February, Sonic Youth and Thurston Moore released \u2018Hold That Tiger\u2019, a rare live recording from 1987<\/a> that includes an introduction from the late Steve Albini<\/a>, who introduced the band onstage before their performance as well as their four back-to-back Ramones<\/a> live covers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thurston Moore\u00a0has opened up about the chances of a Sonic Youth reunion in a new interview. The former…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[77,481,269,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-42089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-indie","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}