As a founding member of Sonic Youth, a band born in New York in 1981, Thurston Moore spent thirty years at the vanguard of alternative rock, influencing and inspiring such acts as Nirvana, Pavement, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, My Bloody Valentine, and Beck. Join this iconic artist at Chicago Humanities for an intimate evening of performance and conversation, as Moore performs a selection of songs and discusses his new memoir, A Sonic Life.

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