Gordon in 2005

Kim Althea Gordon (born April 28, 1953, in Rochester, New York), is a musician, vocalist, and artist. She plays bass and guitar in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth. She also plays in the band Free Kitten with Julie Cafritz (of Pussy Galore), and she has collaborated with many musicians such as Ikue Mori, DJ Olive, William Winant, Lydia Lunch, Alan Licht, and Chris Corsano. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (958x1280, 356 KB) Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth at the Le Rock Dans Tous ses Etats at Evreux, 2005-06-25. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (958x1280, 356 KB) Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth at the Le Rock Dans Tous ses Etats at Evreux, 2005-06-25. ... April 28 is the 118th day of the year (119th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 247 days remaining. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Nickname: The Flour City, The Flower City, The Worlds Image Center Motto: Rochester: Made for Living Location of Rochester in New York State Country United States State New York County Monroe Mayor Robert Duffy Area    - City 37. ... Martin EB18 Bass Guitar in flight case. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Alternative rock (also called alternative music[1] or simply alternative) is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. ... Sonic Youth is a rock group formed in New York City in 1981. ... Free Kitten was a 1990s collaboration between Sonic Youths Kim Gordon and Pussy Galores Julie Cafritz. ... Pussy Galore was an American noise rock band that formed in Washington D.C. during 1985. ... Ikue Mori (もりいくえ Mori Ikue, born 1953 in Tokyo, Japan) is a drummer, composer, and graphic designer. ... DJ Olive (a. ... William Winant is a percussionist. ... Lydia Lunch Lydia Lunch (born Lydia Koch on June 2, 1959 in Rochester, New York) is an American singer, poet, writer, and actor. ... Alan Licht is an American guitarist and composer, whose work combines elements of pop, noise, free jazz and minimalism. ... Chris Corsano is a drummer from New England, USA. He often performs in an improvisation duo with saxophonist Paul Flaherty. ...

The daughter of a seamstress, Gordon grew up in LA and fell in love with art before attending UCLA's art school. After graduating she moved to New York and joined the short lived band CKM with Christine Hahn and Miranda Stanton. Through Stanton Gordon met her future bandmates Lee Ronaldo and Thurston Moore. The three, along with a stream of drummers, made what was to be Sonic Youth in 1981, originally called "The Arcaidans". In 1984 she married fellow Sonic Youth member Thurston Moore, and would later give birth to their daughter, Coco Hayley Gordon Moore. LA can refer to Los Angeles in California, United States Latin America The Library Association in the United Kingdom The abbreviation for Louisiana, a Southern state of the United States of America An abbreviation for Language Arts. ... Binomial name Ucla xenogrammus Holleman, 1993 The largemouth triplefin, Ucla xenogrammus, is a fish of the family Tripterygiidae and only member of the genus Ucla, found in the Pacific Ocean from Viet Nam, the Philippines, Palau and the Caroline Islands to Papua New Guinea, Australia (including Christmas Island), and the... NY redirects here. ... Magazine logo CKM (shortened to Polish Czasopismo każdego mężczyzny and Hungarian Céltudatos Kalandvágyó [Férfiak] Magazinja) is a family of cultural semi-erotic monthly magazines for men, focused mainly on entertainment and factography. ... Thurston Moore Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958 in Coral Gables, Florida) is an American musician best known as a singer and guitarist for Sonic Youth. ... Sonic Youth is a rock group formed in New York City in 1981. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Thurston Moore Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958 in Coral Gables, Florida) is an American musician best known as a singer and guitarist for Sonic Youth. ... Coco Hayley Gordon Moore (born July 1, 1994) is the daughter of Sonic Youths husband-and-wife team of bassist/vocalist Kim Gordon and guitarist/vocalist Thurston Moore. ...

In 1989 Gordon, Sadie May, and Lydia Lunch teamed up as the band Harry Crews and released the album Naked in Garden Hills. She also was one of the producers of Hole's first record, Pretty on the Inside, released in 1991, and co-directed The Breeders "Cannonball" video with Spike Jonze. 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lydia Lunch Lydia Lunch (born Lydia Koch on June 2, 1959 in Rochester, New York) is an American singer, poet, writer, and actor. ... Harry Crews was a short-lived hardcore / Thrash / No Wave band made up of Lydia Lunch (guitar), Kim Gordon (bass) and Sadie Mae (drums). ... Hole was an alternative rock band that formed in Los Angeles in 1989 and disbanded in 2002. ... Pretty on the Inside is the first album by grunge band Hole, released in 1991. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Breeders are an American rock band, formed in 1988 as a side project for Kim Deal of Pixies and Tanya Donelly of Throwing Muses. ... A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a song. ... Spike Jonze (born Adam Spiegel on October 22, 1969), is an American director of offbeat music videos and commercials, and an Academy Award-nominated director and producer in film and television, most notably the 1999 black comedy film Being John Malkovich and the 2002 film Adaptation. ...

Gordon, Moore, and Coco currently reside in Northampton, Massachusetts. They are frequently sighted in the area and in 2005 played a benefit concert with Cat Power for the Greenfield Center School.   Northampton is a city in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA. The population was 28,978 at the 2000 census. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... Seal of Greenfield, MA The Town of Greenfield, a city to be known as the Town of Greenfield is located in Franklin County, Massachusetts. ...

Fellow rock band Rapeman recorded a tribute to her on their album Two Nuns and a Pack Mule entitled "Kim Gordon's Panties." Rapeman was an American rock music group founded in 1987 and disbanded in 1990. ... Two Nuns and A Pack Mule is the first and only LP by the Chicago noise rock band Rapeman. ...

She is also a well-established artist and curator. Her work has been widely exhibited across the US, Japan and Europe. She graduated form the Otis College of Art & Design in LA. In the early 1980s, she wrote for Artforum and worked for several Soho art galleries. She curated an exhibition at White Columns gallery in 1982 in which Mike Kelley and Tony Oursler were among the participants. Dan Graham invited her to join in a performance of an all-female rock band, which marked the start of her first band CKM. In 1996 Gordon was involved in an exhibition entitled Baby Generation at Parco gallery in Tokyo. Otis College of Art and Design is an art and design college located in Los Angeles, California. ... Artforum is an international monthly magazine specializing in contemporary art. ... Soho is an area of central Londons West End, in the borough of the City of Westminster. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Mike Kelley (born 1954 in Detroit, lives and works in Los Angeles) is one of the most influencial artists to emerge from west coast art scene in the United States since the the 1980s. ... Tony Ourlser - American artist born in 1957. ... Dan Graham (born 1942) is a U.S. artist He is based in New York, is an influential figure in the field of contemporary art, both a practitioner of conceptual art and a well-versed art critic and theorist. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Tokyo , literally Eastern capital)   is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, the home of the Japanese Imperial Family, and the de facto[1] capital of Japan. ...

Her exhibition titled Kim's Bedroom was shown at MU in the Netherlands and included drawing and paintings along with live music and special guests. This resulted in a limited edition book and CD out on Purple Books. In 2003 she was featured in the Gothenburg Biennale, and she exhibited Club In The Shadow, a collaboration with artist Jutta Koether at Kenny Schachter's Contemporary Gallery in NYC. Recently she curated events for Her Noise in London and did another collaboration with Koether. Location of Gothenburg in northern Europe Coordinates: Country Sweden County Västra Götaland County Province Västergötland Charter 1621 Mayor Göran Johansson Area    - City 450 km²  (174 sq mi)  - Water 14,5 km² (5,6 sq mi)  3,2%  - Urban 199 km² (77 sq mi)  - Metro 3717... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

She recently appeared in Gus Van Sant's Last Days, a fictionalized biopic of one of her close friends, Kurt Cobain. She is also the only close friend of Cobain's who has publicly claimed that he was murdered^[1]. Gus Van Sant Gus Van Sant Jr. ... Last Days (2005) is a film by director Gus Van Sant, and is a fictionalized account of the last days of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. ... A biographical film or biopic is a film about a particular person or group of people, based on events that actually happened. ... Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – c. ...

An artist's book titled Chronicles Vol. 1 was published in 2005. An artists book is an art object in the form of a book. ...

Trivia

• In the 1999 Sony PlayStation psychological horror videogame Silent Hill, Kim, along with two other members of Sonic Youth, are mentioned in a teacher's directory in one of the levels. Later in the game you acquire a "K. Gordon" key and you pass through her home. In a 2003 sequel, Silent Hill 3, Kim comes up again. You pass through her classroom and learn a little more about the character.

The Sony PlayStation ) is a video game console of the 32/64-bit era, first produced by Sony Computer Entertainment in the mid-1990s. ... Silent Hill is a video game, the first in the survival horror series with the same name. ... Silent Hill 3 is the third installment in the survival horror series. ...

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