Kim Gordon built her career as the legendary singer, bass player, songwriter of the legendary and enormously influential band Sonic Youth from the late '80s through the '00s. Originally a southern Californian with a background in visual arts, she is now back in Los Angeles, doing her art and her solo work, producing a kind of hard-edged garage-driven experimental music that is not too far removed from Sonic Youth years. She combines electronic loops, repetitive conceptual work with her signature bass-driven dirty dirges or pounding drum beats bashing against a wall of distorted guitars. You know .... all Sonic Youth stuff, except, a tad more out there. Her solo work is the best way to find out about the evolution of an enormously influential musician whose impact can be seen in a lot of today's musical acts of a younger generation (Knife Wife, Horsegirl).
Sonic Youth, Knife Wife, The Breeders, Deerhoof, Sleater-Kinney, Shonen Knife
Kim Gordon played with Sonic Youth for many years. During that period she worked with Julia Cafritz from Pussy Galore in a project called Free Kitten.
After Sonic Youth, she formed Head/Body with Bill Nace, and formed Glitterbust with Alex Knost.
