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"He’s almost at pains to present his bona fides for discovering new music, never letting the fire go out. It gets tiresome, but the NYC scene in the mid to late 1970s is surely the most thrilling era to have experienced; we’ll lap up any and all memories of it."
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Any artist figuratively bragging about bleeding for their craft would be stopped short by Thurston Moore’s Sonic Life: A Memoir. That’s not only because of the doorstopper’s near 500 page heft, but also because the Sonic Youth guitarist makes those pages whiz by with jolting anecdotes, including one about how he repeatedly lacerated his finger, spurting blood across the stage, while playing his famously abrasive riffs. Or as he puts it, during a recent video call with Under the Radar: “A whirlwind of thrashing.”