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Kim Gordon
Sign in to saveAmerican musician and artist, most known as co-founding member of Sonic Youth (born 1953)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1953
- Works
- 18
Top works
- Girl in a band
- Chloë Sevigny
- Is it my body?
- Performing/guzzling
- Chronicles Vol. 3
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Film & TV
Acting · Rochester, New York, USA
Kim Althea Gordon (born April 28, 1953) is an American musician, vocalist, artist, record producer, video director and actress. She is lead singer, bass and guitarist in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth, and in Free Kitten with Julia Cafritz (of Pussy Galore). Gordon has collaborated with a number of musicians, including Ikue Mori, DJ Olive, William Winant, Lydia Lunch, Courtney Love, Alan…
Known for
- The Best Summer — Self2026
- Marc by Sofia2026
- Bad Painter — Interviewer2025
- The Chronology of Water — Photographer2025
- FireAid Benefit Concert — Self2025
- Pavements — Self (uncredited)2025
- Sonic Youth: Live in 19912025
- Everybody's Live with John Mulaney — Self - Musical Guest2025
- Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story2024
- 12341 Branford St. Sun Valley — Self2023
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- England
- Active from
- 1953
Discography
Member of
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 170,387
- Total plays
- 2,392,580
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Kim Gordon (born 28 April 1953 in Rochester, NY, United States) is chiefly known as the former bass player and singer (along with Lee Ranaldo and her then partner Thurston Moore) of the alternative rock band Sonic Youth (1981-2011). The demise of Sonic Youth coincided with the dissolution of her marriage to Moore. Gordon's take on this painful story is in her post-Sonic Youth memoir, 'Girl in a Band' (2015). During and after Sonic Youth's existence she has taken part in many experimental side
Academic profile · OpenAlex
- Works
- 525
- Cited by
- 31,797
Research areas
Most cited works
- Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association2021 · 3,410 cit
- Inequality in the Built Environment Underlies Key Health Disparities in Physical Activity and Obesity2006 · 1,789 cit
- The nutrition transition: worldwide obesity dynamics and their determinants2004 · 1,533 cit
- Determinants of Adolescent Physical Activity and Inactivity Patterns2000 · 957 cit
- Longitudinal physical activity and sedentary behavior trends2004 · 715 cit
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- <tt>edgeR</tt>
: a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data
· 2009 · cited 39,702x
- limma powers differential expression analyses for RNA-sequencing and microarray studies
· 2015 · cited 37,025x
- Electrophoretic transfer of proteins from polyacrylamide gels to nitrocellulose sheets: procedure and some applications.
· 1979 · cited 34,265x
- User Acceptance of Information Technology: Toward A Unified View1
· 2003 · cited 31,120x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,949x
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Quotes
- “The image a lot of people have of me as detached, impassive, or remote is a persona that comes from years of being teased for every feeling I ever expressed.”
- “Your life is hard to change. But at the same time, I've also always felt that I'm the same person now as I was at five, so I've been sort of reaching out to that too, in a way.”
- “I don't wanna think that I'm influential or an icon or blah blah blah blah...Ultimately, I feel most confident when I'm just working. Thinking about ideas. That's how I'm most comfortable. Or performing in a group situation.”
- “Well, it sort of bothers me that if a man is doing it, then it's fine. Like, if a woman had Bob Dylan's voice, how far would she have gotten? Or Leonard Cohen? And men can get away with saying more things that are—I don't know, it's kind of like, everyone could sit around and pat each other on the back. And that's not very interesting.”
- “I never think of myself as famous anyway, like, if anything, it’s barely famous.”
- “I like a certain amount of tension in music…I like the kind of music that maybe makes you think about the status quo.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Kimberly Althea Gordon , ( 1953-04-28 ) April 28, 1953 (age 73) , Rochester, New York , U.S.
- Alma mater
- Santa Monica College Otis College of Art and Design ( BFA )
- Occupations
- Singer musician songwriter
- Years active
- 1981–present
- Spouse
- Thurston Moore ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1984 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2013 )
- Genres
- Alternative rock experimental rock punk rock
- Instruments
- Vocals guitar bass
- Labels
- SST Geffen Matador
- Member of
- Free Kitten Body/Head Glitterbust
- Formerly of
- Sonic Youth
- Website
- kimaltheagordon .com
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Encyclopedic overview
Kim Althea Gordon (born April 28, 1953) is an American musician, singer and songwriter best known as the bassist, guitarist, and vocalist of alternative rock band Sonic Youth. Born in Rochester, New York, she was raised in Los Angeles, where her father was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. After graduating from Los Angeles's Otis College of Art and Design, she moved to New York City to begin an art career. There, she formed Sonic Youth with Thurston Moore in 1981. She and Moore married in 1984, and the band released a total of six albums on independent labels before the end of the 1980s. It then released nine studio albums on the label DGC Records, beginning with Goo in 1990. Gordon was also a founding member of the musical project Free Kitten, which she formed with Julia Cafritz in 1993.
Sonic Youth released its 15th and final studio album, The Eternal (2009), on Matador Records before disbanding in 2011 after Gordon and Moore separated. After the dissolution of Sonic Youth and her divorce from Moore, Gordon formed the experimental duo Body/Head with Bill Nace, which released its debut album, Coming Apart, in 2013. She subsequently formed Glitterbust with Alex Knost, releasing a self-titled debut album in 2016. Body/Head released its second studio album, The Switch, in 2018. Gordon released her first solo album, No Home Record, in 2019. Her sophomore solo effort, The Collective, followed in 2024. Released to widespread critical acclaim, it has earned Gordon her first two Grammy nominations.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kim Gordon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.