It was at a storefront in Manhattan run by Andy Spade, where he presents interesting events and sells items he picks up from around the world that spark his collector mania. In April you gave a talk called “A Dissertation on White Noise” as part of the Avant Garde Preschool in New York City. People who go into the store, which is called Feeding Tube, walk out in a daze, and usually with emptied wallets. Now that Byron and I are old men we are primed to unload and unleash a few hundred boxes of killer plastic. They asked Byron Coley and I to partner with them knowing that we had access to a very sick amount of insanely amazing vinyl. There are two fellows here in Western Massachusetts who have a small experimental music and art label called Feeding Tube and they decided to open a used record store in Northampton, Mass., which sorely needs one. Well, I’m in cahoots with a record store. Did I hear correctly that you opened a record store? The volume was low during your panel discussion with Jim Jarmusch at All Tomorrow’s Parties.

We caught up with him via email to chat about his recent activities.

He’ll be playing at the First Unitarian Church Chapel this Saturday with guitarist Bill Nace, violinist Samara Lubelski and Philadelphia-based harpist Mary Lattimore. 1976-1980 and contributing words to Grunge and Punk House: Interiors in Anarchy, Moore is an avant-rock renaissance man. From launching Ecstatic Peace Library, a book publishing wing of his Ecstatic Peace record label, to co-writing No Wave: Post-Punk. Given Thurston Moore’s dizzying productivity and the diversity of his creative output, adding “Sonic Youth” to his name as a descriptor is too restrictive.

Sweet Strings by Aly Beck