Kim Gordon

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).