{"id":10659,"date":"2020-05-02T16:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10659"},"modified":"2020-05-17T17:22:54","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T00:22:54","slug":"kim-gordon-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/05\/02\/kim-gordon-rocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Gordon Rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from The New Yorker<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kim Gordon Is Home Again<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

The artist on Instagram, ambition, and Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Amanda Petrusich<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe planet is on its way out if we don\u2019t get our act together,\u201d Kim Gordon, the musician and avant-garde polymath, said. \u201cAnd then you look around and see a Buddhist catchphrase engraved on the floor of a juice place: \u2018Be Here Now.\u2019 \u201d<\/em> Photograph by Annabel Mehran for The New Yorker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Kim Gordon was born in upstate New York, in 1953, but was raised on the West Side of Los Angeles, where her father taught in the sociology department at U.C.L.A., and her mother worked as a seamstress. She moved to New York City in 1980, with designs on becoming an artist. In 1981, Gordon and the guitarists Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore started Sonic Youth, an experimental rock band that inadvertently helped usher in the alternative-boom of the early nineteen-nineties. Gordon was the kind of cool\u2014vaguely aloof, impossibly chic, intimidatingly smart\u2014that made young women like me feel equal parts terrified and enamored. During a time when it was still somewhat anomalous to see women playing in rock bands, and especially in bands as esoteric and adventurous as Sonic Youth, Gordon was a beacon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was also an avant-garde polymath. Gordon produced Hole\u2019s d\u00e9but album, \u201cPretty on the Inside,\u201d co-founded X-girl, a streetwear brand for women (the actress Chlo\u00eb Sevigny was its official face), formed a series of musical side projects, and eventually began to show her drawings, paintings, and collages in galleries around the world. Around 2011, her marriage to Moore fell apart, and Sonic Youth went on an indefinite hiatus. Four years later, Gordon published \u201cGirl in A Band<\/a>,\u201d a thoughtful, occasionally scathing memoir that recounts her formative years in Sonic Youth, her relationship with Moore, the birth of her daughter, and the origins of her art practice. She has spent the last several years performing as half of Body\/Head, with the experimental musician Bill Nace, and, in 2019, at age sixty-six, she released her first solo album, \u201cNo Home Record<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In April, Gordon and I began a correspondence, and she shared her thoughts on Instagram, Los Angeles, overpriced coffee, and canvassing for Bernie Sanders. This interview has been condensed and edited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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