Kim Gordon

?uestlove, Andrew W.K., Kim Gordon More - Masonic Temple - 5/1/13

Better Than: That unimprovised Paisley/Cool J duet. The format, in case you missed the emails, flyers, and Red Bull Music Academy promotional newspapers being handed out around the city, went something like this: One performer took the stage. He or she played for five minutes, at which point anothe ... More >>

The Best Jazz Shows in NYC This Month

These are the best jazz shows in NYC this month.

The Ten Best Concerts in NYC This Week, 4/29/13

Kim Gordon, ?uestlove, Andrew Bird and Andrew W.K. walk into a Masonic Temple ... these are the 10 best shows in NYC this week.

Spring Arts Guide Picks: Music

One Night Only: The Velvet Underground Pay Tribute to Nico and Allen Ginsberg

Tonight, fans of the Velvet Underground will get to see their idols pay tribute to two of their most revered friends and collaborators--just not on the same stage. At Housing Works, Lou Reed will be celebrating the vinyl and digital re-issue of Allen Ginsberg's FIRST BLUES. Across the East River, Jo ... More >>

FEMME FATALE

John Cale pays tribute to Nico

GREEN MIND

Dinosaur Jr. takes 
Terminal 5 back in time

Tupac's Hologram Asks, "Remember The '90s?"

At what point does the nostalgia overwhelm the art?

Live: Free Kitten[esque], Corn Mo, And Assorted Comedians And Noiseniks Pay Homage To Kraftwerk

Krautwork 1-8 Condensed: Kraftwerk Covered Littlefield Tuesday, April 10 Better than: Waiting in the queue. "Intellectual property" is the hot Hollywood buzzword this season for content with which potential audiences might have some previous and preciously guileless associations—enough to ... More >>

Sonic Youth (5) And Arthur Russell (12) Close Out Round One Of SOTC's March Madness

​The Round of 64 for Sound of the City's own version of March Madness—in which you, the Sound of the City voting public, help determine the quintessential New York musician—finishes this weekend, with the Round of 32 kicking off Monday. (The schedule and results so far are here; the fu ... More >>

SOLITARY MAN

Lee Ranaldo goes it alone

Live: Sonic Youth Get Caught Between Bad Moon Rising and New York City

Sonic Youth w/Wild Flag, Kurt Vile Williamsburg Waterfront Friday, August 12 Better than: Listening to a playlist of the set on Spotify. Just before Sonic Youth played "Starfield Road," from 1994's Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, at Friday night's Williamsburg Waterfront gig, singer-guit ... More >>

Q & A: Don Fleming On The Grunge Years, Courtney Love's Work Ethic, The Velvet Monkeys And Being Sonic Youth's "Manager"

​One of the more surreal moments in television history happened one superlate evening in 1989, when Sonic Youth appeared on the avant-garde-leaning music program Night Music on the severely avant-lacking NBC network. With downtown skuzz buddy Don Fleming playing SY's "manager on keyboards"
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Kim Gordon

Reveling In Social Anxiety with Arcade Fire and Vampire Weekend

The Suburbs and Contra contemplate little pink polos for you and me

Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever? American Idol Wobbles, R&B Thrives, And The '90s Rise Again

Welcome to Sound of the City's year-in-review rock-critic roundtable, an amiable ongoing conversation between five prominent Voice critics: Rob Harvilla, Zach Baron, Sean Fennessey, Maura Johnston, and Rich Juzwiak. We'll be here all week! At least one song on this record is really good!​Gent ... More >>

Live: Kathleen Hanna And Friends (Kim Gordon! Amy Andronicus! Care Bears On Fire!) Invade The Knitting Factory

Murray Hill introduces the night's star attraction. The Kathleen Hannah Project The Knitting Factory Saturday, December 12 Better than: Any actual battle of the bands that I've ever attended. We are gathered here tonight at the Knitting Factory to praise Kathleen Hanna, not bury her. Though it ... More >>

'Rah! Rah! Replica!: The Kathleen Hanna Project a/k/a Who Told You Christmas Wasn't Cool?'

NYC NOISE

A look back at No Wave

Scenes from the Anthology Film Archives 40th Anniversary: Sonic Youth, Julian Schnabel, Kenneth Anger, and Some Guy Named Lou

all photos by Nate "Igor" SmithDon't care what you say, Thurston still looks bad-ass The Anthology Film Archives celebrated its 40th anniversary last night at the Hiro Ballroom. The scene was, by all accounts, an intimately swanky affair--reserved tables started at $500; mezzanine tickets cost $99 ... More >>

This Weekend! Ted Leo, Screaming Females, Sundelles, Arms, Sea Monsters, MiniBoone, The Trombone Festival, Doveman, Mirror/Dash, Wild Babies, Twin Sister, and Balún

TedLeo.comTed Leo loves popcorn more than you​Everyone's favorite "goddamn American hero," Ted Leo, will be chord-chugging tonight at the Fillmore with Screaming Females. Though if you've been offended by his karaoke criticism, you can always check out mindlessly ecstatic lo-fiers the Sundelle ... More >>

Tonight! Plastic Ono Band (For Real This Time), Wavves, Lightspeed Champion, and Bear Hands

​Today, Yoko Ono is busy assembling the year's most disparate backing group. After yesterday's "dress rehearsal," her reincarnated Plastic Ono Band will be performing at BAM, with guests ranging from Eric Clapton to Sean Lennon to ... the Scissor Sisters? Also included in the lineup are Mark R ... More >>

Richard Hell+Dorothea Lasky+Thurston Moore

Yoko Ono Reforms Plastic Ono Band For One Ridiculous New York Show

​Last September's Between My Head and the Sky was Yoko Ono's first record as Plastic Ono Band since 1973's Feeling the Space. John Lennon produced the first; his son Sean handled the second, and now comes word that the Plastic Ono Band will once again perform as well. So far, it's just two dat ... More >>

Watch Sonic Youth Perform on Gossip Girl

Videogum has the clip--Kim Gordon is apparently available to officiate your wedding. The song, a dazed, acoustic version of "Star Power," perfect for slow dancing at romantic occasions and the like, is available now from Sonic Youth, where it comes with all sorts of other bonus swag. Can someone w ... More >>

News Roundup: Method Man Tax Evasion, Slumberland Anniversary, Thurston Moore, Momus

​--Oops. Not much came of Method Man allegedly shooting a fan in the face with an air gun, or a friend in the leg with a BB, but evading those $32,799 in income taxes over three years landed the Staten Island rapper at the 120 Police Precinct stationhouse this morning. "Taxes are the burden th ... More >>

Fashion Week in Review: Threeasfour ♥ Yoko Ono; Rodarte Dresses Us for the Apocalypse

​ Photos by Angela Ashman. It was the kind of avant-garde spectacle that fashion outsiders would mock. Models, one by one, snipped away pieces of a spiral white dress worn by a model in the center of the room, until she was left wearing nothing but a bandeau top and high-waisted briefs. But ... More >>

Fashion Week in Review: Schwartzman, Dunst, Kim Gordon's Rad Gloves at Band of Outsiders; United Bamboo and Zero Maria Cornejo

​ Look, Max Fischer is all grown up! Photos by David Wentworth. "What are you doing to me?" a model was overheard saying to the makeup artist backstage at Band of Outsiders who was covering up her creamy pale complexion with a thick layer of golden-bronze makeup. Sorry, dear, but you were ... More >>

Good Morning, Kim Gordon at the Band of Outsiders Fashion Week Event

David WentworthKim Gordon, 09/12/09, Band of Outsiders Fashion Week event at Milk Studios Gotta be honest with you, Kim. It doesn't look like you're particularly enjoying getting your picture taken right now. In fact, that's a butt-clench glare if there ever was one. We understand it's annoying to ... More >>

All Hail the Three Badass Girls in Sonic Youth's New "Sacred Trickster" Video

So what's it like being a girl in a band, Kim Gordon? Well, as we see from Sonic Youth's Tom Surgal-directed "Sacred Trickster" video, it's about trying on cocktail dresses, putting on wigs, and setting off paint ball bombs at a rooftop cocktail party with a mime waiter. Duh! "Sacred Trickster" is ... More >>

Sonic Youth's Rather Regressive Latest

The Eternal doesn't break new ground, for the first time in 20-plus years

Live: Sonic Youth at the Soho Apple Store, Which Isn't That Weird, Actually

Surreptitiously taken with an Apple product. Sonic Youth Soho Apple Store Tuesday, June 9 "It's so quiet," says Kim Gordon, and it instantly gets even quieter, everyone instinctively inhaling with anticipation, because Kim's not one for banter unless she's thought of something profound. "One wou ... More >>

THE WAY IT WAS

A look at those good ol' New York days you might have missed

Fete Yr Idols: Sonic Youth Play a 90th Birthday Party

Merce Cunningham gives a noisy band new eardrums to puncture

Sonic Youth Calm Snakes, Thousands of Chileans

Two early reviews of the new Sonic Youth record, albeit from the same person, rate The Eternal as "fuck. in. maj. or." and also "GAMAZING," which is heartening, in an satisfyingly jittery internet squawk kind of manner. Back at the beginning of March, the band's clever, toy kaleidoscope of an albu ... More >>

BEEN HERE AND BACK

She's not just angry 'cuz she's from Boston

All Systems Goo: Fiction Inspired by Sonic Youth

Feedback titans send fiction writers to the inkwell in Noise.

Kool Things Remembered

Touring the frustrating but frequently brilliant Sonic Youth archives

Friday 8/11

Rather Exhilarating

The best band in the universe do their Brecht thing with hooks

Placing Politics Within the Pop Culture Landscape

Brooklyn Art Festival Brings Art, Some Rock

Wack Job

Terry Richardson's 'Terryworld' brings blowjobs to the art world

Nature Is a Vacuum

Mature pastoralists explore great outdoors, decide dead noise and emo boys are all right

Babies on Fire

Like the Sweet Song of a Choir You Light My Morning Sky With Burning Love Like Blood

Music

Off the Wall

An Extreme Painter Lays It Out

Rekall Yr Idols

Roots in Outer Space

Rubicon Beach

Sonic Youth in Occupied America