Wanted/Needed/Loved: Kathleen Hanna’s Girl Style, Then and Now
I was entranced, wondering who made it and why.
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Posts Tagged: Kim Gordon
Swinging Modern Sounds #71: A Michael Bay Film Eating Itself
“Love,” then is not to be taken lightly here. It is being engaged at full force, megaphonically.
...moreDinosaur Jr. Covers Neil Young
The iconic band began its 7-night run at the Bowery Ballroom celebrating the 30th anniversary of its debut album, Dinosaur, with an introduction from Henry Rollins and a slew of guests including Kim Gordon, Jeff Tweedy, Steve Gunn, and Kurt Vile, according to Brooklyn Vegan. One of the performance’s highlights was Tweedy and Vile playing […]
...moreThis Week in Posivibes: The Female Rock Memoir
In a piece on the explosion of female-written music memoir, Guardian writer Jude Rogers explores what it means for there to be a redress of the idea of rock being historically told through the lens of the male figure. Beginning with Slits guitarist Viv Albertine’s book Clothes Clothes Clothes Music Music Music Boys Boys Boys, […]
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Girl In A Band by Kim Gordon
Matt Kessler reviews Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon today in Rumpus Books.
...moreNotable NYC: 2/21–2/27
Saturday 2/21: Joanna Fuhrman reads from her new poetry collection, The Year of the Yellow Butterflies, with Caroline Hagood. BookCourt, 4 p.m., free. Morgan Parker, Cynthia Arrieu-King, Mathias Svalina, and Natalie Eilbert read poetry. Mellow Pages Library, 7:30 p.m., free. Purdey Lord Kreiden and Jackie Wang join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5.
...moreIs the Internet A Modern-Day “Dunciad”?
And so it proved, as music website after music website soon reported on the Gordon-Moore breakup in exactly those sort of exclamatory tones, completely ignoring the fact that the article focused on Gordon as a modern feminist hero rather than an abandoned wife. At the Quietus, Paul Tucker examines the reaction to Elle‘s profile of Kim […]
...moreAlbums of Our Lives: The Sonic Youth Mixtape a Friend Gave Me
In the early ’90s, when I was in high school, I listened to songs from bands that got played on the radio.
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