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Kim Gordon performs in concert at Alcatraz, Milan 2024
Alt-rock icon Kim Gordon on the secret to making great music on bad guitars and why she never saw herself as a bassist

By Henry Yates Published

Returning with solo album Play Me – a stinging broadside against the modern age – the alt-rock talisman remembers the bad guitars and renegade tunings of her ’80s breakout with Sonic Youth

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U.S. singer, musician and composer Kim Gordon (Althea) former member of Sonic Youth, currently member of the super-group Free Kitten performs in concert at Alcatraz. Milan (Italy), October 28th, 2024
Why Kim Gordon has stopped playing the bass – despite being an icon of the instrument

By Matt Owen Published

Gordon's work with Sonic Youth cemented her reputation as a modern pioneer of the bass guitar – but she hasn't picked one up in over 10 years

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Melissa Auf Der Maur performs at Highline Ballroom on March 3, 2011 in New York City
Hole and Smashing Pumpkins' Melissa Auf der Maur reveals the bassists who compelled her to pick up the instrument

By Janelle Borg Published

The ’90s bass icon pays homage to the other women in the scene at the time – and recalls how seeing them onstage was a total game-changer for her

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(from left) Pat Smear, Dave Grohl, St. Vincent, and Krist Novoselic perform onstage at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, California on January 30, 2025
Surviving members of Nirvana reunite unannounced at FireAid concert, with four guest frontwomen

By Jackson Maxwell Published

But for Violet Grohl taking the place of Lorde, it was the same group of singer/guitarists the remaining Nirvana trio played with at their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction performance in 2014

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Mike Kinsella (left) and Steve Holmes of American Football perform during FORM Arcosanti 2019 at Arcosanti Urban Laboratory on May 10, 2019 in Arcosanti, Arizona
From cinematic death metal epics to math-rock magic: here are this week's essential guitar tracks

By Michael Astley-Brown, Jackson Maxwell, Matt Owen, Sam Roche Published

See out 2021 the right way with must-listens from Kim Gordon & J Mascis, American Football, Venom Prison, Matt Pike, Karnivool, Big Thief, and more

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[L-R] J Mascis and Kim Gordon
J Mascis and Kim Gordon team up for two-track single, Abstract Blues

By Sam Roche Published

The Dinosaur Jr. and Sonic Youth guitarists serve up distorted riffs and effects-heavy leads aplenty in the new offering

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Kim Gordon performs at Marc Jacobs, Sofia Coppola & Katie Grand Celebrate The Marc Jacobs Redux Grunge Collection And The Opening Of Marc Jacobs Madison at Marc Jacobs Madison on December 3, 2018 in New York City
Kim Gordon blends dissonance and classic rock riffage on new single, Grass Jeans

By Jackson Maxwell Published

All proceeds raised by the song's purchase this month will be donated to Fund Texas Choice, a non-profit organization that pays for Texans’ travel to abortion clinics

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Kim Gordon: "If dissonance is something we added to the vocabulary of indie rock, from a legacy standpoint, that’s pretty cool"

By Joe Bosso Published

The former Sonic Youth bassist/vocalist/guitarist breaks down her truly wild solo debut, No Home Record

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Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore Releases Single With New Band, Chelsea Light Moving

By Damian Fanelli Published

Sonic Youth have been on "indefinite hiatus" since Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon -- the band's husband-and-wife frontman and woman -- announced their split in November.

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