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Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon

Girl in a Band: A Memoir

Girl in a Band: A Memoir by Kim Gordon

July 18, 2025 by llp Leave a Comment

I have to confess I have never been a particular fan of Sonic Youth. I would read about them in Sassy, but I didn’t really hear much of their music other than when the Kool Thing video played on Much Music, and I just didn’t really love it. The band had an aura of cool (New York, friends with Chloe Sevigny, etc) that felt really beyond me because I just did not get it. However, I was in a used record store this spring and […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Featured, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, cbr17, cbr17bingo, kim gordon, non fiction, Sonic Youth

llp's CBR17 Review No:7 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Featured, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, cbr17, cbr17bingo, kim gordon, non fiction, Sonic Youth ·
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Little Trouble Girl

July 3, 2015 by Jenny S Leave a Comment

I’ll start this review by saying that I’m not a super fan of Sonic Youth but I’ve always been aware of them, ever since a friend put “Kool Thing” on a mix tape for me back in the early 90’s. This book was compared to Patti Smith’s Just Kids, which I loved, so I was interested to learn both more about Kim Gordon and Sonic Youth. The memoir starts off powerfully in the near present. Gordon and her husband and bandmate, Thurston Moore, have broken […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, Sonic Youth

Jenny S's CBR7 Review No:42 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, Sonic Youth ·
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