Girl in a band. L'autobiografia

I finally understand why they say you should never meet your heroes. I thought (just like you) that Kim was the coolest ever in the hippest band ever. If you want to keep thinking that, don't ever read this book. Read this one instead . If you're already set on reading it anyway or got it as a gift o Leggi tutto

Interesting and at times even moving, but mostly, there is a distance there and whether or not it's because there are places she doesn't want to go or doesn't care to take you, I'm not sure. There is something very unresolved about it as a memoir but again, that's ok - she's in the middle of a major Leggi tutto

A very fast read and quite illuminating though not for the reasons one might expect. I was pretty dismayed at how Kim's elitism and namedropping goes hand in hand with her playing punk rock contests and speaking really harshly about other women. It's one thing to say Courtney Love is crazy but quite Leggi tutto

Sonic Youth is one of the most innovative and influential bands of the past 40 years. From the start, they questioned everything about traditional musical forms and embraced the use of alternate tunings, dissonance, and speaker feedback. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, they became godparents of the Leggi tutto

This book really reminds you to Kill Yr Idols. I was disappointed by this book for several reasons. An author can talk about whatever they want. It's their book and it can be a part of the grieving process, but learning about Thurston Moore's affairs was frankly boring. Women also have middle age cr Leggi tutto

Kim Gordon's Girl in a Band offers interesting insights, especially on the formation of Sonic Youth, how the band approached songs and albums (what they had in mind while writing specific songs and what their studio sessions were like). Gordon also relates how the band identified itself in the conte Leggi tutto

True to her stage persona Kim Gordon has the effortless cool detached rock thing happening, what you see is what you get. Kim is a hard nut to crack, you can see that she truly struggles to open up but when she does it’s worth the wait. She can be scathing, hard edged and cynical. Sometimes a little Leggi tutto

Kim Gordon's life has certainly taken her to fascinating places. Growing up in the sixties, traveling, infiltrating the NYC art scene, Sonic Youth's formation and success, starting her own fashion line, producing others music and films, becoming an artist in her own right and all while being female

I'm hoping that this will turn out to be the biggest literary let-down of 2015, because I can't think what could be worse. You know how Gordon is famous for being icy, opaque, inscrutable? This memoir is.. icy, opaque and inscrutable. Page after page of naming art dealers, a statement at the beginni Leggi tutto

This book gave me a different view not just on Kim Gordon herself, but also on women's rights and the role of visual arts post-1960s. I listened to the audio book, main reason being that she is reading it herself. It was my first audiobook, so I don’t have anything to compare it to, but I have to say Leggi tutto