Kim Gordon
Sign in to saveAmerican musician and artist, most known as co-founding member of Sonic Youth (born 1953)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1953
- Works
- 18
Top works
- Girl in a band
- Chloë Sevigny
- Is it my body?
- Performing/guzzling
- Chronicles Vol. 3
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Acting · Rochester, New York, USA
Kim Althea Gordon (born April 28, 1953) is an American musician, vocalist, artist, record producer, video director and actress. She is lead singer, bass and guitarist in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth, and in Free Kitten with Julia Cafritz (of Pussy Galore). Gordon has collaborated with a number of musicians, including Ikue Mori, DJ Olive, William Winant, Lydia Lunch, Courtney Love, Alan…
Known for
- The Best Summer — Self2026
- Marc by Sofia2026
- Bad Painter — Interviewer2025
- The Chronology of Water — Photographer2025
- FireAid Benefit Concert — Self2025
- Pavements — Self (uncredited)2025
- Sonic Youth: Live in 19912025
- Everybody's Live with John Mulaney — Self - Musical Guest2025
- Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story2024
- 12341 Branford St. Sun Valley — Self2023
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Kim Gordon (born 28 April 1953 in Rochester, NY, United States) is chiefly known as the former bass player and singer (along with Lee Ranaldo and her then partner Thurston Moore) of the alternative rock band Sonic Youth (1981-2011). The demise of Sonic Youth coincided with the dissolution of her marriage to Moore. Gordon's take on this painful story is in her post-Sonic Youth memoir, 'Girl in a Band' (2015). During and after Sonic Youth's existence she has taken part in many experimental side
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- <tt>edgeR</tt>
: a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data
· 2009 · cited 38,885x
- limma powers differential expression analyses for RNA-sequencing and microarray studies
· 2015 · cited 35,737x
- Electrophoretic transfer of proteins from polyacrylamide gels to nitrocellulose sheets: procedure and some applications.
· 1979 · cited 34,209x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,698x
- User Acceptance of Information Technology: Toward A Unified View1
· 2003 · cited 29,465x
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Key dates
- Born
- 28 April 1953
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Althea
- Family name
- Gordon
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Rochester
- Spouse
- Thurston Moore
- Occupation
- record producer
- Educated at
- King George V School
- Languages spoken
- English language
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