Girl in a Band

Girl in a Band

By Kim Gordon
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“I’ve always admired Kim Gordon. She is cool, smart, and dignified. Girl in a Band is a fascinating and honest memoir, full of raw emotion and insight.”

Sofia Coppola

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth, fashion icon, and role model for a generation of women, now tells her story—a memoir of life as an artist, of music, marriage, motherhood, independence, and as one of the first women of rock and roll, written with the lyricism and haunting beauty of Patti Smith's Just Kids.

Often described as aloof, Kim Gordon opens up as never before in Girl in a Band. Telling the story of her family, growing up in California in the '60s and '70s, her life in visual art, her move to New York City, the men in her life, her marriage, her relationship with her daughter, her music, and her band, Girl in a Band is a rich and beautifully written memoir.

Gordon takes us back to the lost New York of the 1980s and '90s that gave rise to Sonic Youth, and the Alternative revolution in popular music. The band helped build a vocabulary of music—paving the way for Nirvana, Hole, Smashing Pumpkins and many other acts. But at its core, Girl in a Band examines the route from girl to woman in uncharted territory, music, art career, what partnership means—and what happens when that identity dissolves.

Evocative and edgy, filled with the sights and sounds of a changing world and a transformative life, Girl in a Band is the fascinating chronicle of a remarkable journey and an extraordinary artist.

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  1. Kate
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    Best memoir of 2015

    Kim Gordon is an icon and provides insight to a major part of rock history that few others could. Her thoughtful narrative describes growing through the turmoil of late 60s fallout of the peace movement in L.A., the emergence of punk, no wave, and grunge, and life in New York city before it was cleaned up into sparkling tourist center we know today. And while her divorce was messy, and public she very gracefully navigates the narrative of her relationship with Thurston Moore in a tasteful but human way. I have always admired her and this book only cements those feelings. Highly recommend to fans of rock, feminist literature, and contemporary art.

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  2. Jack Vincent
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    What a Great Story

    I was not a sonic youth fan although I had of course heard of the band over the years . However I was taken in by a YouTube video of author Kim Gordon being interviewed about this book . So I decided to give it a chance and boy was I glad I did , she writes straight from the heart and her story is amazing . Starting in California as a teenager to New York City where the band takes off . She is open about the life in rock and roll with such wonderful stories about fellow musician's , poets and artist that she knew and worked with over the years. She reads the book as well and is great at it making the book sound like she is sitting at the kitchen table telling you her bitter sweet true life story.

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