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Kim gordon s memoir, girl in a band, is out next week on february 24. Young and adrift in new york in the late seventies, kim gordon found music, thurston moore, and her future with sonic youth. Kim gordon, founding member of sonic youth, fashion icon, and role model for. Until the bandand their marriagebroke up in 2011, the author sang and played bass, made art, and raised a daughter. Eventually, gordon found herself submitting to his dominating personality. Girl in a band king county library system overdrive. Girl in a band will hit shelves on february 24, and it promises unprecedented insights into gordons life, relationship and split with thurston moore, and the history of the new. Sep 21, 2018 joel selvin altamont the rolling stones the hells angels and the inside story audiobook duration. This is a fancy way of saying that im probably in the sweet spot when it comes to kim gordon s memoir, girl in a band. From the guitarist of the pioneering band sleaterkinney, the book kim gordon says everyone has been waiting for and a new york times notable. Its a history she carried with her when she headed from california to the no wave underground of new york in 1980, where she met moore, the lanky, punkobsessed guitarist and soul mate who was already worshipping at the altar of cbgbs. Kim gordon, founding member of sonic youth, fashion icon, and role model for a generation of women, now tells her story a memoir of life as an artist, of music, marriage, motherhood. Kim gordon, founding member of sonic youth, fashion icon, and role model for a generation of women, now tells her storya memoir of life as an artist, of music, marriage, motherhood, independence, and as one of the first women of rock and roll, written with the lyricism and haunting beauty of patti smiths just kids often described as aloof, kim gordon opens up as. Kim gordons memoir, girl in a band, begins and ends with two seminal gigs, the final sonic youth concert in 2011 that also marked the end of her marriage to front man thurston moore and last years induction ceremony for the rock and roll hall of fame when gordon was invited to sing with the remaining members of nirvana.
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