Yeah, it's sort of this ironic, horrible question pretty much every girl hates to be asked. There weren't many women in bands in the 80s and 90s. I mean it's not shocking-that's probably the number-one question you've gotten asked in your career. This interview is an edited transcript of our conversation from that night.Įlissa Schappell: You say you're awkward, but people don't see you shy or awkward. Gordon can be shy, and as we took the stage, slipping into our leather armchairs in front of a full house she joked, "I always enjoy a fabulously awkward conversation." Which may explain why Gordon, drinking red wine backstage, seemed almost well, nervous. and abroad, beaten breast cancer, modeled for YSL-and, oh yeah, written a book that has crashed the New York Times Bestseller list-it's clear that not only is it time to paint Gordon's throne gold, you can nail the sucker down.ĭespite the fact that Gordon grew up in California in the 60s and 70s and spent the last decade living and raising her daughter Coco in Northampton, Gordon's prominence on the downtown art and music scene in the 80s and 90s-that long-gone, oft-mythologized dirty glory days of the Lower East Side-causes New Yorkers to still hail her as one of their own. Since the split, the 60-something Gordon has formed a new band, Head/Body, an experimental electric band with Bill Nace and released a record, shown her art in the U.S. ![]() If being the cofounder, frontwoman, and bass player for experimental, post-punk alternative rock band Sonic Youth and helping inspire the Riot Grrrl movement wasn't enough to secure Gordon's place in the pantheon of badass feminist rock goddesses, then her elegant rise out of the smoking rubble of her divorce from Sonic Youth cofounder and philandering husband of 27 years Thurston Moore, should be. If you needed proof, look no further than the audience at the Strand's sold-out event last Tuesday, some of whom waited hours in the biting cold for a chance to buy a copy of her new memoir Girl in a Band, and hear her interviewed. Kim Gordon famously said, "People pay to see other people believe in themselves."
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