Kim Gordon
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Kim Althea Gordon (born April 28, 1953, in Rochester, New York) plays bass and guitar in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth. She also plays in the band Free Kitten. In 1989 she, Sadie May, and Lydia Lunch teamed up as the band Harry Crews and released the album Naked in Garden Hills. Her work has influenced recording artist and fellow Rochestarian Del Rivers. She also co-directed (with Spike Jonze) The Breeders "Cannonball" video.
In 1984 she married fellow Sonic Youth member Thurston Moore, with whom she has a daughter, Coco Hayley Gordon Moore. Gordon, Moore, and Coco currently reside in Northampton, Massachusetts. They are frequently sighted in the area and in 2004 played a benefit concert with Cat Power for the Greenfield Center School.
Fellow rock band Rapeman recorded a tribute to her on their album Two Nuns and a Pack Mule entitled "Kim Gordon's Panties."
She is also a well-established artist. She recently starred 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 to believe that he was murdered.
| Sonic Youth |
| Kim Gordon | Thurston Moore | Lee Ranaldo | Steve Shelley |
| Jim Sclavunos | Richard Edson | Bob Bert | Jim O'Rourke | Coco Gordon Moore |
| Discography |
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| Albums: Sonic Youth | Confusion Is Sex | Sonic Death | Bad Moon Rising | EVOL | Sister | The Whitey Album | Daydream Nation | Goo | Dirty | Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star | Screaming Fields of Sonic Love | Washing Machine | Made in USA | A Thousand Leaves | | SYR5 | NYC Ghosts & Flowers | Murray Street | Sonic Nurse | Rather Ripped |
| Extended plays: Kill Yr Idols | TV Shit | ' | ' | | Silver Session for Jason Knuth |
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