In one of the unlikeliest TV appearances since the Flaming Lips rocked the Peach Pit on 90210, Sonic Youth is getting its Gossip Girl moment. The cult heroes are set to make a cameo in an episode airing 12 October in the US.

The star turn sees them tearing up the Upper East Side as a wedding band performing 1986 classic Star Power. And guess what? It was totes their idea. “Kim [Gordon] and I are pretty fanatical viewers of the show,” Thurston Moore enthused to Rolling Stone. “It’s sort of our dose of Shakespeare every week.”

After fratenising with the well-heeled and hard-jawed Gossip Girl types, Moore is feeling right at home. “I’d like to have a role on the show,” he joked to RS. “I’d love to be a 51-year-old ex-indie rocker who hangs out in some capacity. Maybe I can be kind of an art-rock nemesis to Dan Humphrey or something.”