Formats
Anthologies
105
Audio
310
Catalogues
411
Clothing
23
Editions
31
Ephemera
68
Literary
39
Monographs
179
Posters
298
Video
39
Zines
141

Shop > Artists' Books

#11872

Girl in a Band: A Memoir

Writer
Kim Gordon
Price
$37.00
Date
2015
Publisher
William Morrow Publishers
Format
Artists' Books
Size
16 × 23.5 cm
Length
273 pages
Genre
Autobiography, Music
Description

For many, Kim Gordon, vocalist, bassist and founding member of Sonic Youth, has always been the epitome of cool.

Sonic Youth is one of the most influential and successful bands to emerge from the post-punk New York scene, and their legacy continues to loom large over the landscape of indie rock and American pop culture. Almost as celebrated as the band’s defiantly dissonant sound was the marriage between Gordon and her husband, fellow Sonic Youth founder and lead guitarist Thurston Moore. So when Matador Records released a statement in the fall of 2011 announcing that—after twenty-seven years—the two were splitting, fans were devastated. In the middle of a crazy world, they’d seemed so solid.

What did this mean? What comes next? What came before?

In Girl in a Band, the famously reserved superstar speaks candidly about her past and the future. From her childhood in the sunbaked suburbs of Southern California, growing up with a mentally ill sibling who often sapped her family of emotional capital, to New York’s downtown art and music scene in the eighties and nineties and the birth of a band that would pave the way for acts like Nirvana, as well as help inspire the Riot Grrl generation, here is an edgy and evocative portrait of a life in art.

Exploring the artists, musicians, and writers who influenced Gordon, and the relationship that defined her life for so long, Girl in a Band is filled with the sights and sounds of a pre-Internet world and is a deeply personal portrait of a woman who has become an icon.

  1. Girl in a Band
 

Related Items

  1. Kim Gordon and Branden W. Joseph: Is It My Body?
  2. Jalal Toufic: Reading, Rewriting Poe’s “The Oval Portrait“
  3. Doniella Davy: Z-Girl and the Snake Charmer
  4. Nihilist Spasm Band and Sonic Youth: Wintage Records Subscription Service
  5. Grace Lee Boggs: Living for Change
  6. Autobiography: Patrick Tuttofuoco
  7. Autobiography: Claudia Comte
  8. Autobiography: Alessandro Pessoli
  9. Barry Doupé and James Whitman: The Foul Girl Relaxes
  10. Walter Scott: Wendy, Master of Art
  11. Stephen Wicks: Never Going Back Again
  12. Fly: PEOPs #7
  13. Lise Melhorn-Boe: Big Black Bag
  14. Gordon Foster: Ten Lessons Every Artist Should Learn (and other trite sayings).
  15. Marco Müller and Nicolas Sourvinos: Zero Tolerance
  16. Perroquet tout s’écroule sort sont premier album
  17. Ken Kagami: Freaky Dog and Freaky Boy
  18. Phil Woollam: Crossways
  19. Robin Nishio: Wailed
  20. Emily Jacir & Susan Buck-Morss
  21. The Mass Production of Artwork: Christian Giroux and Daniel Young in Conversation with Kim Förster
  22. Toronto Builds
  23. Construction Hoarding
  24. Ian Hamilton Finlay, Douglas Gordon, and Ross Sinclair: Northern Grammar
  25. Steffanie Ling: Nascar
  26. Olivier Foulon and Michael Krebber: The Soliloquy of the Broom
  27. Dan Starling: The Culture Industry and the Propaganda Factory
  28. Philip Monk: Double-Cross: The Hollywood Films of Douglas Gordon
  29. Kids on TV and Times Neue Roman: Art Metronome 001
  30. Manuel Saiz: 24 24 Hour Psycho Sequels
  31. Yes, but is it Edible?
  32. Jannis Schulze: San Carlos
  33. Martin Hogue: [Fake] Fake Estates, Reconsidering Gordon Matta-Clark’s Fake Estates
  34. Jacob Fabricius: Yours Truly