Despite cancelling the book tour due to a debilitating health condition, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore is set to release his new memoir, Sonic Life, next week. Amid his press circuit behind the release, he gave an interview with The New York Times that saw him address the possibility of the band reuniting.
"Everybody wants us to get back together," Moore told the publication's Mark Yarm. "I don't foresee it happening because I think maybe it's a little too unwieldy at this point." The musician added that reunions are "a really typical and expected thing to do," which "goes against the nature of what the band was. I'd rather be like the Beatles and never get back together."
However, Moore admitted that Sonic Youth getting back together would, hypothetically, "be really worthwhile," and the possibility is "always going to be on the table."
Sonic Youth broke up back in 2011, after Moore and Kim Gordon announced their separation following 27 years of marriage — which she wrote about in her own memoir, 2015's Girl in a Band. When Yarm asked Moore if he could ever see himself performing with his ex-wife again, he said, "We're adults. We can find our peace in this kind of situation. We're very connected in our family with my daughter and my nieces and everything. It's not like some hate-fest or anything… Nobody's getting any younger. You know, Sonic Youth at 80?"
Guitarist Lee Renaldo has also spoken about a potential reunion, telling Rolling Stone last year that the band had received some "blank check offers" to reunite at festivals but hadn't ever really considered them. "We're all living and breathing, so you never know what the future will bring," he said. "But we have not entertained it at this point. It's something that hangs out there and people are always asking about."
Despite over a decade of inactivity, Sonic Youth continue to roll out reissues, the latest being this summer's release of Live in Brooklyn 2011 — recorded at their final North American concert on August 12 of that year. To mark the occasion, Exclaim! ranked the band's 20 best songs.
"Everybody wants us to get back together," Moore told the publication's Mark Yarm. "I don't foresee it happening because I think maybe it's a little too unwieldy at this point." The musician added that reunions are "a really typical and expected thing to do," which "goes against the nature of what the band was. I'd rather be like the Beatles and never get back together."
However, Moore admitted that Sonic Youth getting back together would, hypothetically, "be really worthwhile," and the possibility is "always going to be on the table."
Sonic Youth broke up back in 2011, after Moore and Kim Gordon announced their separation following 27 years of marriage — which she wrote about in her own memoir, 2015's Girl in a Band. When Yarm asked Moore if he could ever see himself performing with his ex-wife again, he said, "We're adults. We can find our peace in this kind of situation. We're very connected in our family with my daughter and my nieces and everything. It's not like some hate-fest or anything… Nobody's getting any younger. You know, Sonic Youth at 80?"
Guitarist Lee Renaldo has also spoken about a potential reunion, telling Rolling Stone last year that the band had received some "blank check offers" to reunite at festivals but hadn't ever really considered them. "We're all living and breathing, so you never know what the future will bring," he said. "But we have not entertained it at this point. It's something that hangs out there and people are always asking about."
Despite over a decade of inactivity, Sonic Youth continue to roll out reissues, the latest being this summer's release of Live in Brooklyn 2011 — recorded at their final North American concert on August 12 of that year. To mark the occasion, Exclaim! ranked the band's 20 best songs.
