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Kim Gordon

April 27, 2023

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Kim Althea Gordon (born April 28, 1953) is an American musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the bassist, guitarist, and vocalist of alternative rock band Sonic Youth. Born in Rochester, New York, she was raised in Los Angeles, California, where her father was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. After graduating from Los Angeles's Otis College of Art and Design, she moved to New York City to begin an art career. There, she formed Sonic Youth with Thurston Moore in 1981. She and Moore married in 1984, and the band released a total of six albums on independent labels before the end of the 1980s. They would subsequently release nine studio albums on the major label DGC Records, beginning with Goo in 1990. Gordon was also a founding member of the musical project Free Kitten, which she formed with Julia Cafritz in 1993.

Kim Gordon
Gordon performing in 2009 with Sonic Youth
Born
Kim Althea Gordon

(1953-04-28) April 28, 1953 (age 69)
Rochester, New York, U.S.
Alma mater
Occupations
  • Singer
  • musician
  • songwriter
Years active1981–present
Spouse
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(m. 1984; div. 2013)​
Children1
Musical career
Genres
Instrument(s)
  • Vocals
  • guitar
  • bass
Years active1981–present
Labels

Sonic Youth released their sixteenth and final studio album, The Eternal (2009), on Matador Records before disbanding in 2011 after Gordon and Moore separated. Following the dissolution of Sonic Youth and her divorce from Moore, Gordon formed the experimental duo Body/Head with Bill Nace, releasing their debut album Coming Apart in 2013. She subsequently formed Glitterbust with Alex Knost, releasing a self-titled debut album in 2016. Body/Head released their second studio album, The Switch, in 2018. She released her first solo album, No Home Record, in 2019.

In addition to her work as a musician, Gordon has had ventures in record producing, fashion, and acting, and has worked consistently as a visual artist throughout her musical career. She debuted as a producer on Hole's debut album Pretty on the Inside (1991), and founded the Los Angeles-based clothing line X-Girl in 1993. Beginning in the mid-2000s, Gordon began acting, making minor appearances in such films as Last Days (2005) and I'm Not There (2007), followed by guest-starring appearances on several television series. In February 2015, she published a memoir, Girl in a Band, by HarperCollins imprint Dey Street Books.

Life and career

1953–1978: Early life

Kim Althea Gordon was born April 28, 1953[1] in Rochester, New York, the second child of Althea (d. 2002) and Calvin Wayne Gordon (1915–1998).[2][3][4] At the time of her birth, Gordon's father, a native of Kansas,[4] was a professor in the sociology department at the University of Rochester.[5][6] Her mother, a descendant of American pioneers of the West Coast,[7] learned to sew during her upbringing in the Great Depression, and worked as a seamstress throughout Gordon's childhood.[2][8] She was described by Gordon as "reserved and usually anxious" and "an unfulfilled artist."[2] Gordon has one older brother, Keller (b. 1949 d. 2023),[2] whom she described as "brilliant, manipulative, sadistic, arrogant, almost unbearably articulate," and "the person who more than anyone else in the world shaped who I was, and who I turned out to be."[9]

At the age of five, Gordon and her family relocated to Los Angeles, California when her father was offered a professorship in the sociology department at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA),[10][9] where he later became the Dean of Faculty.[2] As a child, Gordon attended University Elementary School, a progressive elementary school affiliated with UCLA, which she described as "learn[ing] by doing. So we were always making African spears and going down to the river and making mud huts, or skinning a cowhide and drying it and throwing it off the cliff at Dana Point."[11] In her memoir, Gordon recounts spending summers with her family in Klamath, California, near the Oregon border.[12] The family also lived in British Hong Kong for one year during her childhood.[2]

Gordon attended University High School in Los Angeles, and dated classmate Danny Elfman while a student there.[13] After graduating high school, she attended Santa Monica College for two years[14] before transferring to York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[15] Gordon soon grew homesick and chose to drop out of York at the end of the school year and return to Los Angeles.[16] "I was less and less happy as the bleak Toronto winter moved in," she recalled. "Without the benefit of California sunshine, my hair grew darker and darker, and I had no idea how to dress for the cold."[17] She decided to enroll at the Otis College of Art and Design,[18] which she said "changed my life."[17] Gordon lived in Culver City and Venice, Los Angeles, and worked at an Indian restaurant to pay her tuition.[17] She also briefly worked for art dealer Larry Gagosian as a side-job.[19] She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1977.[20]

While she was a student at Otis, Gordon's older brother Keller suffered a psychotic episode on the day of his graduation from the University of California, Berkeley, where he had earned a Master's degree in classics.[2] He was subsequently diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and for a time lived in halfway houses before becoming a ward of the state of California.[2] The song "Schizophrenia," which appeared on Sonic Youth's fourth studio album, Sister (1987), was partly inspired by her brother.[2]

1979–1994: Sonic Youth and X-Girl

Main article: Sonic Youth

After graduating from the Otis Art Institute, Gordon moved to New York City in 1980, hoping to pursue a career in art.[21] There, she took art-related jobs to earn an income, such as working as a writer for Artforum,[22] and launched a "D.I.Y. project called Design Office, doing low-fi artistic interventions" in friends' apartments.[21] In 1981, she curated an exhibition at White Columns Gallery[21] that involved contributions from Mike Kelley and Tony Oursler, among others. Around 1981, Gordon became interested in "no-wave" bands, recalling: "When I came to New York, I'd go and see bands downtown playing no-wave music. It was expressionistic and it was also nihilistic. Punk rock was tongue-in-cheek, saying, 'Yeah, we're destroying rock.' No-wave music is more like, 'NO, we're really destroying rock.' It was very dissonant. I just felt like, Wow, this is really free. I could do that."[11]

 
Gordon performing with Sonic Youth in Leeds, 1992

In 1981, Gordon joined the short-lived band CKM,[23] with Christine Hahn and Stanton Miranda, and met her future Sonic Youth bandmates Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore through Miranda. At the time, Gordon, then 27 years old, had never played an instrument.[24] Gordon began dating Moore and, together with Ranaldo, the couple then formed Sonic Youth in 1981.[11] Originally the band released their first unnamed EP (considered by the band to be their first album) in 1982 and their first two albums, Confusion is Sex (1983) and Bad Moon Rising (1985) on Neutral and Homestead Records, respectively, before signing with SST to release EVOL (1986) and Sister (1987). Gordon and Moore married in 1984, three years after beginning Sonic Youth.[25] In October 1988, the band released Daydream Nation through Enigma Records.

In 1989, Sonic Youth signed onto DGC Records, a subsidiary of Geffen, and released Goo (1990), which became the group's first commercial hit.[26] Also in 1989, Gordon, Sadie May, and Lydia Lunch formed Harry Crews, and released the album Naked in Garden Hills.[27] To promote Goo, Gordon toured with Sonic Youth extensively between 1990 and 1991, and a documentary titled 1991: The Year Punk Broke documented the band's tour with Nirvana, Babes in Toyland, Dinosaur Jr., Gumball and Mudhoney.[28] In early 1991, Courtney Love, who had been influenced by Sonic Youth and the no wave scene, sent Gordon a letter asking her to produce her band Hole's debut record, Pretty on the Inside. Gordon, along with assistance from Don Fleming, produced the album in March 1991, which received critical acclaim and later achieved cult status.[11] Gordon commented on the recording sessions that Love "was either charming and nice or screaming at her band" but that she was "a really good singer and entertainer and front person."[29] In 1992, Gordon released a single, "Electric Pen," with Mirror/Dash, a short-lived project she formed with Moore.[30]

Beginning in 1993, Gordon co-owned, with Daisy von Furth, a women's streetwear clothing company in Los Angeles, called X-Girl.[31] The company was a spin-off of X-Large, a men's streetwear company co-founded by Michael Diamond of the Beastie Boys.[32] The first X-Girl store was opened in Los Angeles in 1994.[33] Actress Chloë Sevigny served as a model for several pieces in the clothing line.[34] Also in 1993, Gordon formed the musical project Free Kitten with Julia Cafritz.[35] On July 1, 1994, Gordon gave birth to her only child, daughter Coco Hayley Gordon Moore, with Thurston Moore.[36]

1995–2008: Music, art, and acting

Free Kitten released their debut studio album, Nice Ass, in 1995, followed by Sentimental Education (1997), both on the independent label Kill Rock Stars.[37] In 1993, Gordon co-directed The Breeders' "Cannonball" music video with Spike Jonze,[38] and was also involved in an exhibition entitled Baby Generation at Parco gallery in Tokyo. Gordon's exhibition Kim's Bedroom was shown at MU in the Netherlands, and included drawing and paintings alongside live music and special guests.[39]

 
Gordon performing with Sonic Youth in Seattle, 2009

As a part of Sonic Youth, Gordon released several albums in the mid–late 1990s, including Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star (1994), Washing Machine (1995), and A Thousand Leaves (1998), all on DGC Records.[40] They subsequently released NYC Ghosts & Flowers in 2000, and Murray Street in 2002.[41] In 1999, after selling her share of X-Girl,[2] Gordon relocated with Moore from New York City to Northampton, Massachusetts, to raise their daughter.[21] Around 2002, Gordon became involved with The Supreme Indifference, a musical collaboration that involved Gordon, Jim O'Rourke and Alan Licht.[42] The band appeared on the 2002 compilation Fields and Streams, though their contribution was deemed "annoying" and the project "self-indulgent" by critic Adrian Begrand of PopMatters.[42]

In 2003, Gordon was featured in the Gothenburg Biennale and exhibited Club In The Shadow, an installation art collaboration with artist Jutta Koether, at Kenny Schachter's Contemporary Gallery in New York City.[43] In 2005, she submitted another collaboration with Koether for the Her Noise exhibition in London, United Kingdom, entitled "Reverse Karaoke."[44] In the same year, an artist's book Kim Gordon Chronicles Vol. 1 was published and featured photos of Gordon throughout her life.[45] The following year, Kim Gordon Chronicles Vol. 2 was released and featured her drawings, collages, and paintings.[46]

Beginning in 2005, Gordon began appearing in minor or supporting parts in films, first as a record executive in Gus Van Sant's Last Days.[47] She then had a small role portraying a textile exporter in the 2007 French thriller film Boarding Gate,[48] and in Todd Haynes's I'm Not There (2007), inspired by the life of Bob Dylan.[49] The same year, she played a street troubadour in the season six finale of the television series Gilmore Girls, along with husband Moore and their daughter Coco, performing the song "What a Waste" from the album Rather Ripped.[50]

In September 2008, Gordon launched a limited-edition fashion line called Mirror/Dash (also the name of a musical side project that was created with Moore),[30] inspired by Françoise Hardy and based on the idea that "there's a need for clothes for cool moms."[51]

2009–2011: Dissolution of Sonic Youth; personal struggles

Sonic Youth released their final studio album, The Eternal, in 2009.[52] Rolling Stone journalist Will Hermes wrote of the album: "It's amusing to think that the fiercely freaky Sonic Youth were a major-label act for nearly 20 years. The Eternal marks their literal return to indie rock – and that's no big whoop, since they've always done pretty much what they want anyway. The irony is that The Eternal might be their most concise record ever. It's also a rock & roll ass-kicker."[53] The same year, Gordon, along with the rest of Sonic Youth, made an appearance in the television series Gossip Girl and performed an acoustic version of the song "Starpower".[54]

In 2011 Gordon and Moore separated after 27 years of marriage.[55] The next month, bandmate Ranaldo said Sonic Youth had disbanded,[56] after having been together 30 years.[a] After their divorce was finalized in April 2013, Gordon revealed that she had confronted Moore about a text message from another woman which was then followed by counseling sessions, and the separation occurred because Moore continued his extra-marital relationship. Gordon said her ex-husband was "like a lost soul."[11]

She also said she had been diagnosed with DCIS breast cancer during her divorce, which was successfully treated with surgery.[11][57]

2012–present: Body/Head and other projects

 
Gordon performing with Body/Head, 2018

Following the announcement of Sonic Youth's hiatus, Gordon commenced touring with Ikue Mori, Tokyo-born drummer of late-1970s band DNA—Gordon had performed with Mori previously at events such as the NoFunFest in 2004.[58][59][60] The duo completed a European tour in mid-2012 and Gordon explained during a corresponding interview: "You sorta want to get lost and you hope that the audience gets lost with you ... You can feel if they're listening, you can feel if there's some connection."[61] Together with Bill Nace, Gordon and Mori were selected for the June 2013 All Tomorrow's Parties event that was curated by the band Deerhunter.[62] Around 2012, Gordon formed a noise guitar project with Nace, entitled Body/Head, and a single called "The Eyes, The Mouth" was released in 2012 on Belgian label Ultra Eczema.[63] The band's debut album Coming Apart was released on September 10, 2013, on the Matador Records label and the band completed a U.S. tour during the fall of 2013.[64]

I almost feel like I'm making up for lost time. I feel like I owe it to myself. Because my whole life I wanted to be a visual artist. I really got sidetracked into music.

– Gordon on her artistic aspirations being precluded by her career as a musician, 2018[21]

Gordon also immersed herself in producing art, having felt that music had "sidetracked" her career as a visual artist.[21] She held several art exhibitions in 2013, including "The Show Is Over," at Gagosian Gallery in London, and the survey "Design Office with Kim Gordon–Since 1980," at White Columns, New York,[11] the latter a revival of a project she had begun in 1980.[21] In 2014, she presented newly created Wreath Paintings throughout Rudolf Schindler's iconic Fitzpatrick-Leland House under the byname of Design Office.[65] In January 2014, she appeared in the season three premiere of the series Girls as Mindy, a recovering drug addict in a rehab support group.[66] She then appeared as herself in a March 2014 episode of Portlandia.[67]

Gordon published a memoir, Girl in a Band, on February 24, 2015, by HarperCollins imprint Dey Street Books.[68] The memoir explores her childhood, life in art and Sonic Youth, and marriage to and divorce from Thurston Moore. Its title, Girl in a Band, stems from a lyric in "Sacred Trickster" from Sonic Youth's final album, The Eternal (2009). The lyric goes, "What's it like to be a girl in a band?/ I don't quite understand."[69] The same year, Gordon appeared in The Nightmare (2015), a German horror film in which she portrayed a schoolteacher, which was released at the Locarno International Film Festival. She also contributed to its soundtrack.[70][71] In November that year, Gordon relocated from the Massachusetts home she had shared with Moore and their daughter to her hometown of Los Angeles, purchasing a home in the Franklin Hills neighborhood.[72]

Also in 2015, Gordon formed the experimental musical group Glitterbust with guitarist Alex Knost, releasing a self-titled debut album in March 2016.[73] Gordon then appeared in Tony Oursler's film Imponderable, which screened at the Museum of Modern Art in June 2016.[74] On September 12, 2016, Gordon released her first solo single, "Murdered Out", followed on August 20, 2019, by a second solo single, "Sketch Artist". A third track, "Air BnB", was released on September 11. All tracks appear on her first solo record on Matador Records, No Home Record, which was released on October 13, 2019.[75][76]

 
Gordon in 2018

In 2017, Gordon had a small role on the HBO series Animals,[77] followed by a supporting role in Gus Van Sant's comedy-drama film Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot.[78] Her album No Home Record was rated number 8 of Paste Magazine's "20 Best Punk Albums of 2019".[79]

Kim Gordon: Lo-Fi Glamour, Gordon's first North American museum solo-exhibition, opened at The Andy Warhol Museum in 2019. The exhibition features a commissioned score for Andy Warhol’s 1963–64 silent film Kiss in conversation with text paintings, figure drawings and erotic sculpture.[80]

In December 2021, Gordon recorded a 7" single on Sub Pop Records with J Mascis titled "Abstract Blues" backed with "Slow Boy".[81]

Artistry

Gordon possesses a contralto vocal range.[2] A 2016 review from Pitchfork noted her voice as "one of the great instruments in post-punk history, though she doesn't always get credit for the variety of her technique."[82] Despite her prolific career in music, Gordon told journalist Evan Smith in a 2015 interview that she never considered herself a musician, explaining that she had been "drawn into the world" of the music scenes happening in the 1980s, and that she "felt like an outsider" once part of it.[83] Gordon's instrumental work as a guitarist has been described as "free-form"[84] and experimental.[85]

Influences

Several female musicians influenced Gordon. She stated in 2015:

Initially, I was really inspired by The Slits and The Raincoats, and Siouxsie Sioux, Patti Smith. Then, there was The Runaways, Janis Joplin, Tina Turner – who is the ultimate performer – and Billie Holiday.[86]

Public image

No one ever questions the disorder behind her tarantula LA glamour – sociopathy, narcissism – because it's good rock and roll, good entertainment! I have a low tolerance for manipulative, egomaniacal behavior, and usually have to remind myself that the person might be mentally ill.

– Gordon on Courtney Love

Gordon is a popular culture icon, epitomizing an "ineffable, magnetic coolness"[21] and "a certain brand of aloof, downtown cool."[87] Some journalists have noted her as a public figure who has "never given much away" about herself.[86] Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys commented on Gordon's persona, stating: "Wherever Kim ends up, she is the coolest person in the room. But I know her, and I know she'd rather be at home grilling hot dogs."[2]

Gordon has also been cited as "a modest polymath" given her varied career pursuits in art, music, fashion, and acting.[88] While observations were made by the media of Gordon being "dauntingly impressive and self-assured" during her tenure with Sonic Youth, she commented in a retrospective interview that she was "pretty insecure about my image and where I fitted in."[88] Describing her image, she said: "I knew I couldn't achieve some kind of cool, stylised image, that just wasn't me...  It was a reaction to corporate style. So it was kind of just being yourself, you know walking on stage wearing a t-shirt."[86]

Upon the release of her 2015 memoir, Gordon received some criticism for comments made about other musicians,[89] among them Lana Del Rey: "Naturally, [she]'s just a persona. If she really truly believes it's beautiful when young musicians go out on a hot flame of drugs and depression, why doesn't she just off herself?"[90] Gordon also reflected on working with Courtney Love in 1991, writing: "No one ever questions the disorder behind her tarantula LA glamour – sociopathy, narcissism – because it's good rock and roll, good entertainment! I have a low tolerance for manipulative, egomaniacal behavior, and usually have to remind myself that the person might be mentally ill."[90] Gordon clarified her comments on Del Rey in a subsequent interview, stating: "Initially it was about just seeing something in the paper... something about how rock stars should just like kill themselves with drugs, and Frances Bean [Cobain] had really reacted to that and I felt really actually weirdly protective of Frances. So I was basically just trying to point out that it was a persona and I just offhandedly said what I said...  I guess I could have articulated the whole thing a lot better."[91]

Honors

On May 21, 2015, Gordon was honored at The Kitchen's Spring Gala.[92]

On May 5, 2018, she received an Honorary Doctorate from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design.[93]

Legacy

Gordon and her contributions in Sonic Youth are considered by critics and music scholars to have been key influences in the development of grunge music and riot grrrl, both musical movements which began in the early 1990s.[88][94] Among those who have cited her as an influence are filmmaker Sofia Coppola,[95] musician Kathleen Hanna, and Irish singer Róisín Murphy.[96] Hanna explained in 2013:

She was a forerunner, musically. Just knowing a woman was in a band trading lead vocals, playing bass, and being a visual artist at the same time made me feel less alone. As a radical feminist singer, I wasn't particularly well liked. I was in a punk underground scene dominated by hardcore dudes who yelled mean shit at me every night, and journalists routinely called my voice shrill, unlistenable. Kim made me feel accepted in a way I hadn't before. Fucking Kim Gordon thought I was on the right track, haters be damned. It made the bullshit easier to take, knowing she was in my corner.[11]

Discography

Solo

Sonic Youth

Main article: Sonic Youth discography

Free Kitten

Body/Head

Glitterbust

  • Glitterbust (2016)

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
1989 The Whole World is Watching: Weatherman '69 Bernadine Dohrn [99]
1992 1991: The Year Punk Broke Herself Documentary film [100]
2005 Last Days Record Executive [47]
2006 Gilmore Girls Cool Mom Troubadour Episode: "Partings" [50]
2007 Boarding Gate Kay [48]
2007 I'm Not There Carla Hendricks [49]
2009 Gossip Girl Herself Episode: "Rufus Getting Married" [101]
2013 Une Danse Des Bouffons Maria Martins Short film [102]
2014 Girls Mindy Episode: "Females Only" [66]
2014 Portlandia Herself Episode: "Pull-Out King" [67]
2015 The Nightmare English poetry teacher German title: "Der Nachtmar" [70]
2016 Imponderable Madame Vesta [74]
2016 The Realest Real Herself Short film [103]
2017 Animals Tulip Episode: "Rats" [77]
2018 Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot Corky [78]

Publications

  • Gordon, Kim (2014). Is It My Body? – Selected Texts. Berlin, Germany: Sternberg Press. ISBN 978-3-95679-038-6.
  • Gordon, Kim (2015). Girl in a Band: A Memoir. New York: Dey Street Books. ISBN 978-0-062-29590-3.
  • Gordon, Kim (2020). No Icon. New York: Rizzoli. ISBN 978-0-8478-6581-9.[104]
  • Gordon, Kim; Gleeson, Sinéad, eds. (2022). This Woman's Work: Essays on Music. Hachette Books. ISBN 9780306829000.

See also

Notes and references

Notes

  1. ^ Sonic Youth was founded by Gordon and Moore in 1981, and the group formally disbanded in 2011.

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X Girl redirects here For Marvel Comics see X Men Kim Althea Gordon born April 28 1953 is an American musician singer and songwriter best known as the bassist guitarist and vocalist of alternative rock band Sonic Youth Born in Rochester New York she was raised in Los Angeles California where her father was a professor at the University of California Los Angeles After graduating from Los Angeles s Otis College of Art and Design she moved to New York City to begin an art career There she formed Sonic Youth with Thurston Moore in 1981 She and Moore married in 1984 and the band released a total of six albums on independent labels before the end of the 1980s They would subsequently release nine studio albums on the major label DGC Records beginning with Goo in 1990 Gordon was also a founding member of the musical project Free Kitten which she formed with Julia Cafritz in 1993 Kim GordonGordon performing in 2009 with Sonic YouthBornKim Althea Gordon 1953 04 28 April 28 1953 age 69 Rochester New York U S Alma materSanta Monica College Otis College of Art and DesignOccupationsSingermusiciansongwriterYears active1981 presentSpouseThurston Moore m 1984 div 2013 wbr Children1Musical careerGenresAlternative rock experimental rock punk rockInstrument s Vocals guitar bassYears active1981 presentLabelsSSTGeffenMatadorSonic Youth released their sixteenth and final studio album The Eternal 2009 on Matador Records before disbanding in 2011 after Gordon and Moore separated Following the dissolution of Sonic Youth and her divorce from Moore Gordon formed the experimental duo Body Head with Bill Nace releasing their debut album Coming Apart in 2013 She subsequently formed Glitterbust with Alex Knost releasing a self titled debut album in 2016 Body Head released their second studio album The Switch in 2018 She released her first solo album No Home Record in 2019 In addition to her work as a musician Gordon has had ventures in record producing fashion and acting and has worked consistently as a visual artist throughout her musical career She debuted as a producer on Hole s debut album Pretty on the Inside 1991 and founded the Los Angeles based clothing line X Girl in 1993 Beginning in the mid 2000s Gordon began acting making minor appearances in such films as Last Days 2005 and I m Not There 2007 followed by guest starring appearances on several television series In February 2015 she published a memoir Girl in a Band by HarperCollins imprint Dey Street Books Contents 1 Life and career 1 1 1953 1978 Early life 1 2 1979 1994 Sonic Youth and X Girl 1 3 1995 2008 Music art and acting 1 4 2009 2011 Dissolution of Sonic Youth personal struggles 1 5 2012 present Body Head and other projects 2 Artistry 3 Influences 4 Public image 5 Honors 6 Legacy 7 Discography 8 Filmography 9 Publications 10 See also 11 Notes and references 11 1 Notes 11 2 References 11 3 Sources 12 External linksLife and career Edit1953 1978 Early life Edit Kim Althea Gordon was born April 28 1953 1 in Rochester New York the second child of Althea d 2002 and Calvin Wayne Gordon 1915 1998 2 3 4 At the time of her birth Gordon s father a native of Kansas 4 was a professor in the sociology department at the University of Rochester 5 6 Her mother a descendant of American pioneers of the West Coast 7 learned to sew during her upbringing in the Great Depression and worked as a seamstress throughout Gordon s childhood 2 8 She was described by Gordon as reserved and usually anxious and an unfulfilled artist 2 Gordon has one older brother Keller b 1949 d 2023 2 whom she described as brilliant manipulative sadistic arrogant almost unbearably articulate and the person who more than anyone else in the world shaped who I was and who I turned out to be 9 At the age of five Gordon and her family relocated to Los Angeles California when her father was offered a professorship in the sociology department at the University of California Los Angeles UCLA 10 9 where he later became the Dean of Faculty 2 As a child Gordon attended University Elementary School a progressive elementary school affiliated with UCLA which she described as learn ing by doing So we were always making African spears and going down to the river and making mud huts or skinning a cowhide and drying it and throwing it off the cliff at Dana Point 11 In her memoir Gordon recounts spending summers with her family in Klamath California near the Oregon border 12 The family also lived in British Hong Kong for one year during her childhood 2 Gordon attended University High School in Los Angeles and dated classmate Danny Elfman while a student there 13 After graduating high school she attended Santa Monica College for two years 14 before transferring to York University in Toronto Ontario Canada 15 Gordon soon grew homesick and chose to drop out of York at the end of the school year and return to Los Angeles 16 I was less and less happy as the bleak Toronto winter moved in she recalled Without the benefit of California sunshine my hair grew darker and darker and I had no idea how to dress for the cold 17 She decided to enroll at the Otis College of Art and Design 18 which she said changed my life 17 Gordon lived in Culver City and Venice Los Angeles and worked at an Indian restaurant to pay her tuition 17 She also briefly worked for art dealer Larry Gagosian as a side job 19 She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1977 20 While she was a student at Otis Gordon s older brother Keller suffered a psychotic episode on the day of his graduation from the University of California Berkeley where he had earned a Master s degree in classics 2 He was subsequently diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and for a time lived in halfway houses before becoming a ward of the state of California 2 The song Schizophrenia which appeared on Sonic Youth s fourth studio album Sister 1987 was partly inspired by her brother 2 1979 1994 Sonic Youth and X Girl Edit Main article Sonic Youth After graduating from the Otis Art Institute Gordon moved to New York City in 1980 hoping to pursue a career in art 21 There she took art related jobs to earn an income such as working as a writer for Artforum 22 and launched a D I Y project called Design Office doing low fi artistic interventions in friends apartments 21 In 1981 she curated an exhibition at White Columns Gallery 21 that involved contributions from Mike Kelley and Tony Oursler among others Around 1981 Gordon became interested in no wave bands recalling When I came to New York I d go and see bands downtown playing no wave music It was expressionistic and it was also nihilistic Punk rock was tongue in cheek saying Yeah we re destroying rock No wave music is more like NO we re really destroying rock It was very dissonant I just felt like Wow this is really free I could do that 11 Gordon performing with Sonic Youth in Leeds 1992 In 1981 Gordon joined the short lived band CKM 23 with Christine Hahn and Stanton Miranda and met her future Sonic Youth bandmates Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore through Miranda At the time Gordon then 27 years old had never played an instrument 24 Gordon began dating Moore and together with Ranaldo the couple then formed Sonic Youth in 1981 11 Originally the band released their first unnamed EP considered by the band to be their first album in 1982 and their first two albums Confusion is Sex 1983 and Bad Moon Rising 1985 on Neutral and Homestead Records respectively before signing with SST to release EVOL 1986 and Sister 1987 Gordon and Moore married in 1984 three years after beginning Sonic Youth 25 In October 1988 the band released Daydream Nation through Enigma Records In 1989 Sonic Youth signed onto DGC Records a subsidiary of Geffen and released Goo 1990 which became the group s first commercial hit 26 Also in 1989 Gordon Sadie May and Lydia Lunch formed Harry Crews and released the album Naked in Garden Hills 27 To promote Goo Gordon toured with Sonic Youth extensively between 1990 and 1991 and a documentary titled 1991 The Year Punk Broke documented the band s tour with Nirvana Babes in Toyland Dinosaur Jr Gumball and Mudhoney 28 In early 1991 Courtney Love who had been influenced by Sonic Youth and the no wave scene sent Gordon a letter asking her to produce her band Hole s debut record Pretty on the Inside Gordon along with assistance from Don Fleming produced the album in March 1991 which received critical acclaim and later achieved cult status 11 Gordon commented on the recording sessions that Love was either charming and nice or screaming at her band but that she was a really good singer and entertainer and front person 29 In 1992 Gordon released a single Electric Pen with Mirror Dash a short lived project she formed with Moore 30 Beginning in 1993 Gordon co owned with Daisy von Furth a women s streetwear clothing company in Los Angeles called X Girl 31 The company was a spin off of X Large a men s streetwear company co founded by Michael Diamond of the Beastie Boys 32 The first X Girl store was opened in Los Angeles in 1994 33 Actress Chloe Sevigny served as a model for several pieces in the clothing line 34 Also in 1993 Gordon formed the musical project Free Kitten with Julia Cafritz 35 On July 1 1994 Gordon gave birth to her only child daughter Coco Hayley Gordon Moore with Thurston Moore 36 1995 2008 Music art and acting Edit Free Kitten released their debut studio album Nice Ass in 1995 followed by Sentimental Education 1997 both on the independent label Kill Rock Stars 37 In 1993 Gordon co directed The Breeders Cannonball music video with Spike Jonze 38 and was also involved in an exhibition entitled Baby Generation at Parco gallery in Tokyo Gordon s exhibition Kim s Bedroom was shown at MU in the Netherlands and included drawing and paintings alongside live music and special guests 39 Gordon performing with Sonic Youth in Seattle 2009 As a part of Sonic Youth Gordon released several albums in the mid late 1990s including Experimental Jet Set Trash and No Star 1994 Washing Machine 1995 and A Thousand Leaves 1998 all on DGC Records 40 They subsequently released NYC Ghosts amp Flowers in 2000 and Murray Street in 2002 41 In 1999 after selling her share of X Girl 2 Gordon relocated with Moore from New York City to Northampton Massachusetts to raise their daughter 21 Around 2002 Gordon became involved with The Supreme Indifference a musical collaboration that involved Gordon Jim O Rourke and Alan Licht 42 The band appeared on the 2002 compilation Fields and Streams though their contribution was deemed annoying and the project self indulgent by critic Adrian Begrand of PopMatters 42 In 2003 Gordon was featured in the Gothenburg Biennale and exhibited Club In The Shadow an installation art collaboration with artist Jutta Koether at Kenny Schachter s Contemporary Gallery in New York City 43 In 2005 she submitted another collaboration with Koether for the Her Noise exhibition in London United Kingdom entitled Reverse Karaoke 44 In the same year an artist s book Kim Gordon Chronicles Vol 1 was published and featured photos of Gordon throughout her life 45 The following year Kim Gordon Chronicles Vol 2 was released and featured her drawings collages and paintings 46 Beginning in 2005 Gordon began appearing in minor or supporting parts in films first as a record executive in Gus Van Sant s Last Days 47 She then had a small role portraying a textile exporter in the 2007 French thriller film Boarding Gate 48 and in Todd Haynes s I m Not There 2007 inspired by the life of Bob Dylan 49 The same year she played a street troubadour in the season six finale of the television series Gilmore Girls along with husband Moore and their daughter Coco performing the song What a Waste from the album Rather Ripped 50 In September 2008 Gordon launched a limited edition fashion line called Mirror Dash also the name of a musical side project that was created with Moore 30 inspired by Francoise Hardy and based on the idea that there s a need for clothes for cool moms 51 2009 2011 Dissolution of Sonic Youth personal struggles Edit Sonic Youth released their final studio album The Eternal in 2009 52 Rolling Stone journalist Will Hermes wrote of the album It s amusing to think that the fiercely freaky Sonic Youth were a major label act for nearly 20 years The Eternal marks their literal return to indie rock and that s no big whoop since they ve always done pretty much what they want anyway The irony is that The Eternal might be their most concise record ever It s also a rock amp roll ass kicker 53 The same year Gordon along with the rest of Sonic Youth made an appearance in the television series Gossip Girl and performed an acoustic version of the song Starpower 54 In 2011 Gordon and Moore separated after 27 years of marriage 55 The next month bandmate Ranaldo said Sonic Youth had disbanded 56 after having been together 30 years a After their divorce was finalized in April 2013 Gordon revealed that she had confronted Moore about a text message from another woman which was then followed by counseling sessions and the separation occurred because Moore continued his extra marital relationship Gordon said her ex husband was like a lost soul 11 She also said she had been diagnosed with DCIS breast cancer during her divorce which was successfully treated with surgery 11 57 2012 present Body Head and other projects Edit Gordon performing with Body Head 2018 Following the announcement of Sonic Youth s hiatus Gordon commenced touring with Ikue Mori Tokyo born drummer of late 1970s band DNA Gordon had performed with Mori previously at events such as the NoFunFest in 2004 58 59 60 The duo completed a European tour in mid 2012 and Gordon explained during a corresponding interview You sorta want to get lost and you hope that the audience gets lost with you You can feel if they re listening you can feel if there s some connection 61 Together with Bill Nace Gordon and Mori were selected for the June 2013 All Tomorrow s Parties event that was curated by the band Deerhunter 62 Around 2012 Gordon formed a noise guitar project with Nace entitled Body Head and a single called The Eyes The Mouth was released in 2012 on Belgian label Ultra Eczema 63 The band s debut album Coming Apart was released on September 10 2013 on the Matador Records label and the band completed a U S tour during the fall of 2013 64 I almost feel like I m making up for lost time I feel like I owe it to myself Because my whole life I wanted to be a visual artist I really got sidetracked into music Gordon on her artistic aspirations being precluded by her career as a musician 2018 21 Gordon also immersed herself in producing art having felt that music had sidetracked her career as a visual artist 21 She held several art exhibitions in 2013 including The Show Is Over at Gagosian Gallery in London and the survey Design Office with Kim Gordon Since 1980 at White Columns New York 11 the latter a revival of a project she had begun in 1980 21 In 2014 she presented newly created Wreath Paintings throughout Rudolf Schindler s iconic Fitzpatrick Leland House under the byname of Design Office 65 In January 2014 she appeared in the season three premiere of the series Girls as Mindy a recovering drug addict in a rehab support group 66 She then appeared as herself in a March 2014 episode of Portlandia 67 Gordon published a memoir Girl in a Band on February 24 2015 by HarperCollins imprint Dey Street Books 68 The memoir explores her childhood life in art and Sonic Youth and marriage to and divorce from Thurston Moore Its title Girl in a Band stems from a lyric in Sacred Trickster from Sonic Youth s final album The Eternal 2009 The lyric goes What s it like to be a girl in a band I don t quite understand 69 The same year Gordon appeared in The Nightmare 2015 a German horror film in which she portrayed a schoolteacher which was released at the Locarno International Film Festival She also contributed to its soundtrack 70 71 In November that year Gordon relocated from the Massachusetts home she had shared with Moore and their daughter to her hometown of Los Angeles purchasing a home in the Franklin Hills neighborhood 72 Also in 2015 Gordon formed the experimental musical group Glitterbust with guitarist Alex Knost releasing a self titled debut album in March 2016 73 Gordon then appeared in Tony Oursler s film Imponderable which screened at the Museum of Modern Art in June 2016 74 On September 12 2016 Gordon released her first solo single Murdered Out followed on August 20 2019 by a second solo single Sketch Artist A third track Air BnB was released on September 11 All tracks appear on her first solo record on Matador Records No Home Record which was released on October 13 2019 75 76 Gordon in 2018 In 2017 Gordon had a small role on the HBO series Animals 77 followed by a supporting role in Gus Van Sant s comedy drama film Don t Worry He Won t Get Far on Foot 78 Her album No Home Record was rated number 8 of Paste Magazine s 20 Best Punk Albums of 2019 79 Kim Gordon Lo Fi Glamour Gordon s first North American museum solo exhibition opened at The Andy Warhol Museum in 2019 The exhibition features a commissioned score for Andy Warhol s 1963 64 silent film Kiss in conversation with text paintings figure drawings and erotic sculpture 80 In December 2021 Gordon recorded a 7 single on Sub Pop Records with J Mascis titled Abstract Blues backed with Slow Boy 81 Artistry EditGordon possesses a contralto vocal range 2 A 2016 review from Pitchfork noted her voice as one of the great instruments in post punk history though she doesn t always get credit for the variety of her technique 82 Despite her prolific career in music Gordon told journalist Evan Smith in a 2015 interview that she never considered herself a musician explaining that she had been drawn into the world of the music scenes happening in the 1980s and that she felt like an outsider once part of it 83 Gordon s instrumental work as a guitarist has been described as free form 84 and experimental 85 Influences EditSeveral female musicians influenced Gordon She stated in 2015 Initially I was really inspired by The Slits and The Raincoats and Siouxsie Sioux Patti Smith Then there was The Runaways Janis Joplin Tina Turner who is the ultimate performer and Billie Holiday 86 Public image EditNo one ever questions the disorder behind her tarantula LA glamour sociopathy narcissism because it s good rock and roll good entertainment I have a low tolerance for manipulative egomaniacal behavior and usually have to remind myself that the person might be mentally ill Gordon on Courtney Love Gordon is a popular culture icon epitomizing an ineffable magnetic coolness 21 and a certain brand of aloof downtown cool 87 Some journalists have noted her as a public figure who has never given much away about herself 86 Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys commented on Gordon s persona stating Wherever Kim ends up she is the coolest person in the room But I know her and I know she d rather be at home grilling hot dogs 2 Gordon has also been cited as a modest polymath given her varied career pursuits in art music fashion and acting 88 While observations were made by the media of Gordon being dauntingly impressive and self assured during her tenure with Sonic Youth she commented in a retrospective interview that she was pretty insecure about my image and where I fitted in 88 Describing her image she said I knew I couldn t achieve some kind of cool stylised image that just wasn t me It was a reaction to corporate style So it was kind of just being yourself you know walking on stage wearing a t shirt 86 Upon the release of her 2015 memoir Gordon received some criticism for comments made about other musicians 89 among them Lana Del Rey Naturally she s just a persona If she really truly believes it s beautiful when young musicians go out on a hot flame of drugs and depression why doesn t she just off herself 90 Gordon also reflected on working with Courtney Love in 1991 writing No one ever questions the disorder behind her tarantula LA glamour sociopathy narcissism because it s good rock and roll good entertainment I have a low tolerance for manipulative egomaniacal behavior and usually have to remind myself that the person might be mentally ill 90 Gordon clarified her comments on Del Rey in a subsequent interview stating Initially it was about just seeing something in the paper something about how rock stars should just like kill themselves with drugs and Frances Bean Cobain had really reacted to that and I felt really actually weirdly protective of Frances So I was basically just trying to point out that it was a persona and I just offhandedly said what I said I guess I could have articulated the whole thing a lot better 91 Honors EditOn May 21 2015 Gordon was honored at The Kitchen s Spring Gala 92 On May 5 2018 she received an Honorary Doctorate from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design 93 Legacy EditGordon and her contributions in Sonic Youth are considered by critics and music scholars to have been key influences in the development of grunge music and riot grrrl both musical movements which began in the early 1990s 88 94 Among those who have cited her as an influence are filmmaker Sofia Coppola 95 musician Kathleen Hanna and Irish singer Roisin Murphy 96 Hanna explained in 2013 She was a forerunner musically Just knowing a woman was in a band trading lead vocals playing bass and being a visual artist at the same time made me feel less alone As a radical feminist singer I wasn t particularly well liked I was in a punk underground scene dominated by hardcore dudes who yelled mean shit at me every night and journalists routinely called my voice shrill unlistenable Kim made me feel accepted in a way I hadn t before Fucking Kim Gordon thought I was on the right track haters be damned It made the bullshit easier to take knowing she was in my corner 11 Discography EditSolo No Home Record 2019 97 At Issue 2022 with Loren Connors 98 Sonic Youth Main article Sonic Youth discography Free Kitten Unboxed 1994 Nice Ass 1995 Sentimental Education 1997 Inherit 2008 Body Head Body Head 12 2013 Coming Apart 2013 No Waves 2016 The Switch 2018 Glitterbust Glitterbust 2016 Filmography EditYear Title Role Notes Ref 1989 The Whole World is Watching Weatherman 69 Bernadine Dohrn 99 1992 1991 The Year Punk Broke Herself Documentary film 100 2005 Last Days Record Executive 47 2006 Gilmore Girls Cool Mom Troubadour Episode Partings 50 2007 Boarding Gate Kay 48 2007 I m Not There Carla Hendricks 49 2009 Gossip Girl Herself Episode Rufus Getting Married 101 2013 Une Danse Des Bouffons Maria Martins Short film 102 2014 Girls Mindy Episode Females Only 66 2014 Portlandia Herself Episode Pull Out King 67 2015 The Nightmare English poetry teacher German title Der Nachtmar 70 2016 Imponderable Madame Vesta 74 2016 The Realest Real Herself Short film 103 2017 Animals Tulip Episode Rats 77 2018 Don t Worry He Won t Get Far on Foot Corky 78 Publications EditGordon Kim 2014 Is It My Body Selected Texts Berlin Germany Sternberg Press ISBN 978 3 95679 038 6 Gordon Kim 2015 Girl in a Band A Memoir New York Dey Street Books ISBN 978 0 062 29590 3 Gordon Kim 2020 No Icon New York Rizzoli ISBN 978 0 8478 6581 9 104 Gordon Kim Gleeson Sinead eds 2022 This Woman s Work Essays on Music Hachette Books ISBN 9780306829000 See also EditSonic Youth discography Experimental music Alternative rockNotes and references EditNotes Edit Sonic Youth was founded by Gordon and Moore in 1981 and the group formally disbanded in 2011 References Edit George Warren amp Romanowski 2005 p 912 a b c d e f g h i j k l Halberstadt Alex June 3 2013 Next Stage The New Yorker Retrieved August 17 2018 Gordon Kim March 26 2015 Interview with Kim Gordon WTF with Marc Maron Interview Interviewed by Marc Maron a b In Memoriam C Wayne Gordon University of California Los Angeles February 24 1998 Retrieved August 23 2018 Gordon 2015 p 15 3 Groups to Study Center for Alcoholics Democrat and Chronicle Rochester New York March 25 1956 p 3B via Newspapers com Gordon 2015 p 4 People Staff June 10 1996 Rockabye Baby People Vol 45 no 23 Retrieved August 17 2018 a b Gordon 2015 p 14 Wayne C Gordon University of California Archived from the original on September 21 2013 Retrieved September 20 2013 a b c d e f g h Goodman Lizzy April 22 2013 Kim Gordon Sounds Off Elle Retrieved September 20 2013 Gordon 2015 pp 25 26 Coscarelli Joe Kim Gordon Sonic Youth s Antifrontwoman on the Band and Breakups The New York Times Retrieved August 17 2018 Friedman Ann February 4 2015 Even Kim Gordon Doesn t Have It All The New Republic Retrieved August 14 2018 Barclay Michael July 2002 Sonic Youth Time Takes Its Crazy Toll Exclaim ca Ontario Media Development Corporations Retrieved April 29 2013 Gordon 2015 pp 72 73 a b c Gordon 2015 p 73 Gaar 2002 p 370 Brooks Katherine September 3 2013 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Thompson Elizabeth Swerdloff Alexia August 20 2012 An Oral History of X Girl Paper Archived from the original on May 19 2013 Retrieved April 29 2013 Johnson Rebecca July 1 2016 The X Girl Factor How the Cult 90s Label Set the Standard for Skater Girl Style Vogue Retrieved August 14 2018 Blush 2016 p 362 Fricke David September 22 1994 The Rolling Stone Interview Sonic Youth s Thurston Moore Rolling Stone Retrieved August 15 2018 Christgau 2000 p 109 Mayshark 2007 p 138 MU past exhibitions Kim s Bedroom Archived from the original on June 25 2007 Retrieved November 13 2007 Bogdanov Woodstra amp Erlewine 2002 p 1041 Bogdanov Woodstra amp Erlewine 2002 pp 1041 1042 a b Begrand Adrian July 11 2002 Various Artists Fields and Streams PopMatters Retrieved August 14 2018 Molon 2007 pp 138 271 Jones amp Heathfield 2012 p 307 Kim Gordon Chronicles Vol 1 Artbook Artbook LLC August 15 2005 Retrieved April 29 2013 Chronicles Vol 2 Kim Gordon Northampton USA Nieves Nieves 2006 Retrieved April 29 2013 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April 23 2013 Kim Gordon reveals why she split from Thurston Moore The Guardian London Retrieved August 15 2018 Dav Heaton 1999 2013 Kim Gordon Ikue Mori DJ Olive self titled PopMatters Spin Music a division of SpinMedia Retrieved April 29 2013 SYR4 GOODBYE 20th CENTURY Sonic Youth Sonic Youth 2013 Retrieved April 29 2013 Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine HolgerXregloH July 4 2010 Ikue Mori amp Kim Gordon w The Sweet Ride NoFunFest 2004 Video upload YouTube Google Inc Retrieved September 9 2013 Lunch Lily July 27 2012 A gig to remember Kim Gordon and Ikue Mori live in Belgrade B turn B turn Retrieved September 9 2013 ATP curated by Deerhunter All Tomorrow s Parties Festival June 2013 Archived from the original on August 17 2015 Retrieved September 9 2013 Pelly Jen August 23 2012 Kim Gordon s Body Head Announce European Tour Pitchfork Retrieved September 9 2013 Pitchfork Advance September 2 2013 Body Head Via Pitchfork Advance Pitchfork Retrieved September 9 2013 Kim 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2018 Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine Gordon Kim May 4 2015 Kim Gordon why she won t call herself a musician Overheard with Evan Smith Interview Interviewed by Evan Smith Retrieved August 20 2018 Grant Sarah October 26 2016 Inside Kim Gordon s Latest Post Sonic Youth Experiment Rolling Stone Retrieved August 20 2018 Schonfeld Zach October 31 2016 There s Not a Lot of Really Experimental Music Out There Kim Gordon s New Noise Frontier Newsweek Retrieved August 20 2018 a b c Woodward Daisy April 13 2015 Kim Gordon on Kurt Cobain and Female Icons Another Magazine Archived from the original on August 26 2018 Retrieved August 15 2018 Grose Jessica February 23 2015 Kim Gordon s Not Pretending Anymore Elle Retrieved August 16 2018 a b c Lynskey Dorian February 16 2014 Kim Gordon life after Sonic Youth The Guardian London Retrieved August 15 2018 Bengal Rebecca February 20 2015 JeSuisKim Why Kim Gordon and Her New Memoir Will Outlive the Lana Del Rey Twitter Controversy Vogue 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