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Kim Gordon
Kim Althea Gordon (born April 28, 1953) 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, California, 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 (album), Goo'' in 1990. Gordon was also a founding member of the musical project Free Kitten, which she formed with Julia Cafritz in 1993. Sonic Youth released its 15th and final studio album, ''The Eternal (album), The Eternal'' (2009), on Matador Records before disbanding in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Body/Head
Body/Head are an American experimental music, experimental electric guitar duo composed of Kim Gordon and Bill Nace. They began working together in 2011 in Northampton, Massachusetts, but the Body/Head concept evolved more specifically in early 2012. Their debut album, ''Coming Apart (album), Coming Apart'', was released on Matador Records on September 10, 2013. Discography *''Body/Head (EP)'' (January 8, 2013) - Open Mouth *''Coming Apart (album), Coming Apart'' (September 10, 2013) - Matador Records, Matador *''The Show Is Over (EP)'' (November 4, 2014) - Matador *''No Waves'' (November 11, 2016) - Matador *''The Switch (Body/Head album), The Switch'' (July 13, 2018) - Matador References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Body Head 2012 establishments in Massachusetts Alternative rock groups from Massachusetts Musical duos from Massachusetts Matador Records artists Musical groups established in 2012 American rock music duos Sonic Youth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth were an American rock band formed in New York City in 1981. Founding members Kim Gordon (bass, vocals, guitar), Thurston Moore (lead guitar, vocals) and Lee Ranaldo (rhythm guitar, vocals) remained together for the entire history of the band, while Steve Shelley (drums) followed a series of short-term drummers in 1985, rounding out the core line-up. Jim O'Rourke (musician), Jim O'Rourke (bass, guitar, keyboards) was also a member of the band from 1999 to 2005, and Mark Ibold (bass, guitar) was a member from 2006 to 2011. Sonic Youth emerged from the experimental no wave art and music scene in New York before evolving into a more conventional rock band and becoming a prominent member of the American noise rock scene. Sonic Youth have been praised for having "redefined what rock guitar could do" using a wide variety of scordatura, unorthodox guitar tunings while prepared guitar, preparing guitars with objects like drumsticks and screwdrivers to alter the instruments' ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Alternative Rock
Alternative rock (also known as alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a category of rock music that evolved from the independent music underground of the 1970s. Alternative rock acts achieved mainstream success in the 1990s with the likes of the grunge subgenre in the United States, and the Britpop and shoegaze subgenres in the United Kingdom and Ireland. During this period, many record labels were looking for "alternatives", as many Arena rock, corporate rock, hard rock, and glam metal acts from the 1980s were beginning to grow stale throughout the music industry. The emergence of Generation X as a Culture, cultural force in the 1990s also contributed greatly to the rise of alternative music. "Alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from mainstream or arena rock, commercial rock or pop. The term's original meaning was broader, referring to musicians influenced by the musical style or independent, DIY ethic, DIY ethos of late-1970s punk rock.di Perna, A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Hole (band)
Hole was an American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1989 in music, 1989. It was founded by singer and guitarist Courtney Love and guitarist Eric Erlandson. It had several different bassists and drummers, the most prolific being drummer Patty Schemel, and bassists Kristen Pfaff (d. 1994) and Melissa Auf der Maur. Hole released a total of four studio albums between two incarnations spanning the 1990s and early-2010s and became one of the most commercially successful rock bands in history fronted by a woman. Influenced by Los Angeles' punk rock scene, the band's debut album, ''Pretty on the Inside'' (1991), was produced by Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth, and attracted critical interest from British and American alternative press. Their second album, ''Live Through This'', released in 1994 by DGC Records, combined elements of punk, grunge music, grunge, and pop rock music, and was widely acclaimed, reaching RIAA certification, platinum status within a year o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Record Producer
A record producer or music producer is a music creating project's overall supervisor whose responsibilities can involve a range of creative and technical leadership roles. Typically the job involves hands-on oversight of recording sessions; ensuring artists deliver acceptable and quality performances, supervising the technical engineering of the recording, and coordinating the production team and process. The producer's involvement in a musical project can vary in depth and scope. Sometimes in popular genres the producer may create the recording's entire sound and structure. However, in classical music recording, for example, the producer serves as more of a liaison between the conductor and the engineering team. The role is often likened to that of a film director, though there are important differences. It is distinct from the role of an executive producer, who is mostly involved in the recording project on an administrative level, and from the audio engineer who operates the re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Collective (Kim Gordon Album)
''The Collective'' is the second solo studio album by the American musician Kim Gordon, released on March 8, 2024, by Matador Records. It received acclaim from critics. It also received two nominations at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards: Best Alternative Music Album and Best Alternative Music Performance (for "Bye Bye"). Background and recording The album was inspired in part by Jennifer Egan's 2022 novel '' The Candy House''. Producer Justin Raisen sent Gordon several instrumental tracks, over which Gordon sang vocals and added distortion effects. Gordon also said that she wanted the album to be "more beat-oriented" than her last album, 2019's ''No Home Record''. Critical reception ''The Collective'' received a score of 84 out of 100 on review aggregator Metacritic based on 16 critics' reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". ''The Wire'' felt that "hard edged synths and massive, crunchy beats lend righteous swagger to Gordon's bleary guitar squalls and jetlagged sprechstimme", ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
No Home Record
''No Home Record'' is the debut solo album by Kim Gordon. The album was produced by Justin Raisen after the two met in an Airbnb, and is named after Chantal Akerman's 2015 documentary '' No Home Movie''. The album has received positive reviews. Background ''No Home Record'' is Kim Gordon's first solo album in her 38-year music career. According to Gordon, she decided to start working on the album after meeting producer Justin Raisen in an Airbnb rental a few years prior to the album's recording. Raisen asked her to sing on a project that he had been working on, which became the basis for the song "Murdered Out". The two decided to continue working on a solo album. It was released on October 11, 2019. Music and production The music from the album has been called a "feast of disorienting beats" by NPR writer Lars Gotrich, and includes instruments such as oboe and guitar. Chantal Akerman's 2015 documentary film called '' No Home Movie'' inspired Gordon to name her album the same a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Switch (Body/Head Album)
''The Switch'' is the second studio album by the American experimental rock duo Body/Head. It was released on July 13, 2018, under Matador Records. Critical reception ''The Switch'' was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average In colloquial, ordinary language, an average is a single number or value that best represents a set of data. The type of average taken as most typically representative of a list of numbers is the arithmetic mean the sum of the numbers divided by ... score of 75, based on 17 reviews. Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release a 71 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 17 reviews. Accolades Track listing References 2018 albums Body/Head albums Matador Records albums {{2010s-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Coming Apart (album)
''Coming Apart'' is the debut studio album by the American alternative rock band Body/Head, a guitar duo composed of Kim Gordon and Bill Nace. It was released on September 10, 2013, on Matador Records. Recorded in Easthampton, Massachusetts in late 2012, ''Coming Apart'' features experimental noise rock arrangements alongside largely feminist-themed lyrics. The album features loose re-workings of the traditional folk song " Black Is the Colour (Of My True Love's Hair)", and " Ain't Got No, I Got Life" by Nina Simone. Upon its release, ''Coming Apart'' received favorable reviews from music critics. Gordon's vocals and the album's minimal production were praised by critics, and Nace's guitar techniques and the album's free structure drew comparisons to earlier releases by Sonic Youth—of whom Gordon was a co-founder and a former member. Body/Head embarked on a U.S. tour in support of its release and were due to tour Europe in late 2013. Composition ''Coming Apart'' features ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bill Nace
Bill Nace is an American experimental guitarist and visual artist, from New Jersey. Nace has collaborated with Joe McPhee, Steve Gunn, Thurston Moore, Yoko Ono, Okkyung Lee, and Kim Gordon. With Gordon, Nace is part of the experimental electric guitar duo Body/Head. He currently runs a label called Open Mouth Records, out of Philadelphia. He is also a prolific visual artist; drawing, designing various shirts, album covers, and flyers. Discography * ''Too Dead for Dreaming'' (8mm, 2010) * ''Both'' ( Drag City, 2020) * '' Through a Room'' ( Drag City, 2022) With Body/Head * '' Coming Apart'' (Matador, 2013) * ''Live Hassle'' (Feeding Tube, 2016) * '' No Waves'' (Matador, 2016) * '' The Switch'' (Matador, 2018) * ''Body/Dilloway/Head'' (with Aaron Dilloway; Three Lobed Recordings, 2021) With X.O.4 * ''All Alien Part One'' (Open Mouth, 2004) * ''X.O.4'' (Audiobot 2005) * ''Cataracts'' (Ecstatic Peace!, 2007) * ''Lost Signals'' (Ultra Eczema, 2007) * ''Exile'' (Open Mouth, 2010) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Eternal (album)
''The Eternal'' is the fifteenth and final studio album by American rock band Sonic Youth, released on June 9, 2009, by Matador Records (the band's only release on that label). It was their first studio album in three years (since '' Rather Ripped''), making it the band's longest gap between studio albums. ''The Eternal'' was the band's highest-charting album of their career in the United States, peaking at No. 18 on the ''Billboard'' 200. Background After '' Rather Ripped'' (2006), the band's contract with Geffen Records had expired and the two parties decided to go their separate ways. At the same time, Jim O'Rourke was gradually replaced with Pavement bassist Mark Ibold. Gordon suggested recruiting him for live shows after having played with him in Free Kitten. Moore found that Ibold "immediately locked in, and had really prepared himself to the point where he knew the songs better than we did". Recording When the band decided to record, it seemed natural to include Ib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Julia Cafritz
Julia Cafritz (born May 5, 1965) is an American musician and guitarist who was a member of Pussy Galore and Free Kitten. She is regarded as a cult figure from the New York City noise music scene of the 1990s. Early life Cafritz was born in Washington, DC, the daughter of Jennifer (née Stats) and Conrad Cafritz, a real estate developer with a personal fortune of over $100 million. She has a younger sister named Daisy von Furth, and two brothers, Eric and Matthew Cafritz. Her grandfather was the multimillionaire real estate developer and philanthropist Morris Cafritz. Cafritz has a B.A. and M.A. from New York University, having dropped out of Brown University after forming Pussy Galore. Pussy Galore In 1985, guitarist Julia Cafritz and fellow Brown University classmate, Jon Spencer on vocals and guitar, and John Hammill on drums, formed the punk noise music, noise band Pussy Galore. In May 1986 they moved to New York City. STP In 1989, Cafritz left Pussy Galore and formed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
