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Performer description
Kim Althea Gordon is an American musician, singer and songwriter best known as the bassist, guitarist, and vocalist of alternative rock band Sonic Youth. Born in Rochester, New York, she was raised in Los Angeles, where her father was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. After graduating from Los Angeles's Otis College of Art and Design, she moved to New York City to begin an art career. There, she formed Sonic Youth with Thurston Moore in 1981. She and Moore married in 1984, and the band released a total of six albums on independent labels before the end of the 1980s. It then released nine studio albums on the label DGC Records, beginning with Goo in 1990. Gordon was also a founding member of the musical project Free Kitten, which she formed with Julia Cafritz in 1993.
Discography
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Sonic Youth
Year: 1982
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Confusion Is Sex
Year: 1983
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Bad Moon Rising
Year: 1985
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Master-Dik
Year: 1987
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Sister
Year: 1987
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Daydream Nation
Year: 1988
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The Whitey Album
Year: 1988
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Rehab Doll
Year: 1988
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Life in Exile After Abdication
Year: 1989
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Goo
Year: 1990
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Dirty
Year: 1992
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Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star
Year: 1994
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Washing Machine
Year: 1995
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A Thousand Leaves
Year: 1998
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NYC Ghosts & Flowers
Year: 2000
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Murray Street
Year: 2002
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Sonic Nurse
Year: 2004
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Rather Ripped
Year: 2006
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Inherit
Year: 2008
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The Eternal
Year: 2009
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Rub
Year: 2015
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Bottle It In
Year: 2018
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The Collective
Year: 2024
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Play Me
Year: 2026