NYC: Thurston Moore Explains Fairly Straightforward David Bowie Videos
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We try to make our way up to MoMA as often as possible, if only just to pound Bloody Marys at The Modern. But tonight there is extra incentive to visit as Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore introduces and discusses some of David Bowie’s music videos, which were recently gifted to the museum by Bowie as part of the museum’s Looking at Music series. It’s not exactly clear what Thurston is going to talk about since most of the early Mick Rock-directed videos are just Bowie standing there looking awesome, but we’re sure he’ll have something interesting to say. For a teaser, above is one that is surely in the exhibit, “Life on Mars?” from 1973, and here’s what we predict Thurston Moore will say about it: “His hair looks really great in this one.” Buy tickets here, and if you have iTunes you can pick up some of Bowie’s 1972 Peel Sessions in the UK Store today, as well.
Video: Byron Coley And Thurston Moore Know More About Music Than Any Healthy Person Should
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“It was an interesting situation because she looked great, and that’s all it took,” says Thurston Moore, which is funny because looking great and having that be all it takes is often a pretty mundane situation. But in the context of early no wave, Ikue Mori was apparently a hot anomaly. The other day at our issue release party we watched Free Blood and thought the guitar player was wearing a Mars T-shirt but actually it was a Mariah Carey T-shirt. Carey was a singer first, fox later. But Moore is saying Mori first knew how to vamp and then sat behind a drum kit, figured rhythm out second. Further mysteries of no wave are revealed be Moore and Byron Coley in this video guide (infomercial?) for their book No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York. 1976-1980.
NYC: Thurston Moore & Bright Eyes at Radio City
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There aren’t many things we can think of that are more New York than seeing Thurston Moore at Radio City Music Hall with the bigass Christmas tree up (but dark) right down the street at Rockefeller. Actually, getting mugged by Al Pacino with a hot dog would be pretty fucking New York too, but we’ll settle. And Conor Oberst is coming along (or headlining) and he’s a great friend of The FADER as well, if a bit of a hillbilly. Just joshin’ Conor. The doors open at 8pm, and the Christmas tree gets lit up on November 28th. Read our Q+A with Thurston Moore from FADER 49 after the jump.
