She’s one of the icons of American alt-rock, and a heroic example of someone who maintains perfect balance as they put one foot in the mainstream and the other in the underground. After decades with Sonic Youth, Kim Gordon is continuing her remarkable solo career – and will be answering your questions.
Born in New York and raised in LA, it was back in New York where she immersed herself in the early 80s no wave scene and met her Sonic Youth bandmates Thurston Moore – later her husband – and Lee Ranaldo, adding drummer Steve Shelley a few years later. Together they forged a new and distinct kind of rock music, where noise had sculptural heft but melody and harmony were wrapped around it, resulting in 15 studio albums including towering classics such as Daydream Nation and Dirty.
After Gordon and Moore’s relationship ended in 2011, the band went on an indefinite hiatus. Gordon struck out into a brilliant new noise duo with Bill Nace, Body/Head, before releasing her debut solo album No Home Record in 2019. This, along with its follow-up The Collective, showed how open and innovative Gordon’s creative vision still was, deftly blending genres from garage rock to trap and industrial. Up next is her new album Play Me, launched with a pair of killer singles: the high-tempo shoegaze of Not Today is some of the most purely beautiful music she has ever made, while Dirty Tech has a beat you could imagine Travis Scott cocking his ear to.
Ahead of its release on 13 March, she will join us to answer your questions about anything in her long career and 72 years of life. Post them in the comments below before 1pm GMT on Wednesday 11 March. Her answers will be published in the 19 March edition of the Film & Music section, and online.
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