Exclusive Portrait: Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth at the Chicago Humanities Festival

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CHICAGO – Kim Gordon was part of a rock revolution in the 1980s and ‘90s, as part of the sound called Sonic Youth. She has written a memoir about those days, “Girl in a Band,” and promoted that book through an appearance sponsored by the Chicago Humanities Festival on February 26th, 2015, at the historic Music Box Theatre in Chicago.

Gordon grew up in Los Angeles, and moved to New York City in the late 1970s to pursue an art career. She was fascinated by the punk and new wave movement in the city, and formed her first band, through which she met Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore. In 1981, the trio formed Sonic Youth. Throughout the 1980s and ‘90s, the band’s sound was influential in the era, with albums like “EVOL” and “Sister.” Over the years, Kim Gordon has participated in other musical projects, and produced the album “Pretty on the Inside” for Courtney Love and her group “Hole.”

Gordon appeared in an event sponsored by the Chicago Humanities Festival (CHF), which will present its 2015 “Stages, Sights & Sounds” international children’s theater festival from May 7th through the 20th, and their 26th Fall Festival in October. The CHF provides year-round programming and events that provides interaction with some of the world’s most brilliant minds, presenting scholars, artists, thinkers and policy makers that change the way we see the world.

Photographer Joe Arce of HollywoodChicago.com took this Exclusive Portrait of Kim Gordon at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago, before she spoke about her new memoir, “Girl in a Band.”

Kim Gordon
Kim Gordon at the Chicago Humanities Festival, February 26th, 2015
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com

For more information about the Chicago Humanities Festival, click here. “Girl in a Band,” by Kim Gordon, is available wherever books are sold.

HollywoodChicago.com senior staff writer Patrick McDonald

By PATRICK McDONALD
Writer, Editorial Coordinator
HollywoodChicago.com
pat@hollywoodchicago.com

© 2015 Patrick McDonald, HollywoodChicago.com

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