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Massachusetts

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Hard rock

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Thurston Moore

Thurston Joseph Moore is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label...

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Ecstatic Peace

Ecstatic Peace! is a record label based in Easthampton, Massachusetts, founded in 1981 by Sonic Youth member Thurston Moore. The premiere release was a split cassette featuring spoken word performances from Michael Gira of Swans and Lydia Lunch...

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. The band performed at North East Sticks Together in 2005 and 2006.

The group has received significant media coverage in the United States, especially after appearing at the 2007 SXSW. They embarked on a national tour of the US in March 2007. Their second album, Invisible Jet, has been reviewed by a number of US press outlets.

Discography

• That Specific Function (Traktor 7, 2004)
• Invisible Jet (Ecstatic Peace
  Ecstatic Peace
  Ecstatic Peace! is a record label based in Easthampton, Massachusetts, founded in 1981 by Sonic Youth member Thurston Moore. The premiere release was a split cassette featuring spoken word performances from Michael Gira of Swans and Lydia Lunch...
  
  , 2006)
• Don't Fuck With The Apocalypse (Ecstatic Peace
  Ecstatic Peace
  Ecstatic Peace! is a record label based in Easthampton, Massachusetts, founded in 1981 by Sonic Youth member Thurston Moore. The premiere release was a split cassette featuring spoken word performances from Michael Gira of Swans and Lydia Lunch...
  
  , 2010)