“I wanted to write about what I had devoted myself to—this kind of subversive, marginalized rock music.”
A wave of distress broke on Sonic Youth fans earlier this month: Thurston Moore, the frontman for the legendary post-punk band, would not be traveling to the US on a book tour for his new memoir due to “a longstanding medical condition,” he wrote on Instagram. “I have a bit of an atrial fibrillation heart issue,” he told me at the start of our interview about the memoir, Sonic Life, which is out this week.
Like, why am I into Lou Reed and Iggy Pop and Alan Vega and these kind of darker forces? Nobody in the rural conservative communities of Connecticut where I lived were dealing with this kind of music. It was just maybe a handful of people within a hundred-mile radius that liked it—this kind of more alienated sound. But it really excited me.
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