He is the guitar player for Sonic Youth, and a solo artist. In addition
to recording around 20 albums, and producing several for other bands,
he has written 3 books. He has two children, Cody (born 1985) and Sage
(1999)
He is one of the three guitarist in the super-group "The Million Dollar Bashers" that were assembled specifically for the soundtrack of I'm Not There (2007), alongside Nels Cline from Wilco and Tom Verlaine from Television.