Kim Gordon in the news; with Aimee Mann at Live Talks LA on March 5

We host Kim Gordon in conversation with Aimee Mann at Live Talks Los Angeles on March 5, 2015, 8pm at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica. Ticket info here.  

Gordon’s new memoir is Girl in a Band, and is getting much attention in the press. Here’s a summary of some reviews and features on Kim Gordon and her upcoming book.

— Feature in  The New York Times, Feb. 18, “Kim Gordon, Sonic Youth’s Antifrontwoman, on the Band and Breakups”
— Review in Los Angeles Times, Feb 19, “Girl in a Band’ is Kim Gordon’s unconventional self-creation tale”
— On All things Considered, NPR, Feb. 22, “Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon On Marriage, Music And Moving On”
— ABC News, Feb. 23, “Book Review: Kim Gordon Is More Than Just a ‘Girl in a Band’
— Excerpt in Vogue, Feb .19
— In The Guardian, Feb. 6, ‘Kim Gordon: ‘Women aren’t allowed to be kick-ass. I refused to play the game’
— In Spin, Feb.6, “Kim Gordon Writes About Nirvana’s ‘Charismatic’ Live Shows in New Memoir”
— Interview in GQ, Feb, “Kim Gordon: Queen of the Underground”
— New York Post, Feb. 21, on the beak up of her marriage and Sonic Youth
— New Republic, Feb 4, “Even Kim Gordon Doesn’t Have It All”
— Art News, Feb. 10, “How to Kill Your Idols: Kim Gordon Takes No Prisoners in New Memoir”
— NME, Feb. 6, “Thurston gets a kicking, but it’s the Sonic Youth icon’s vivid documentation of US subcultures that impresses”
— New York Magazine, Feb. 24, Excerpt, “Kim Gordon on the Pain and Anger of Performing With Her Ex”
— The New Yorker, Feb. 24, “Kim Gordon, Kurt Cobain, and the Mythology of Punk”