Kim Gordon

Kim Althea Gordon (born April 28, 1953, Rochester, New York) sang and played bass in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth. After graduating from art school, Gordon moved to New York City and became fascinated by "no-wave" bands: "When I came to New York, I’d go and see bands downtown playing no-wave music. It was expressionistic and it was also nihilistic. Punk rock was tongue-in-cheek, saying, ‘Yeah, we’re destroying rock.’ No-wave music is more like, ‘NO, we’re really destroying rock.’ It was very dissonant. I just felt like, Wow, this is really free. I could do that."

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