Girl in a Band Lib/E: A Memoir (Audiobook)

from LamontCranston

I'd have liked to have read more about the 70s art scene and no wave, early sonic youth, free kitten, x-girl, juggling touring and music and art and raising a kid. All this just gets a few pages each and will have an allusion to what thurston did. And then the last 100 pages are what thurston did.

from Big_Bang_Gorilla

Paul Westerberg once commented that there would never be a Replacements reunion because whenever he approached Chris Mars about doing one, he acted as though someone wanted him to take up a paper route he had when he was a kid. And that's the problem with this memoir by Sonic Youth co-founder Gor...

from AHS-Wolfy

Autobiography that starts with the break-up of both her marriage and the band she was an integral part of for 30 years before retreating to events of her childhood and growing up and on to the rest of the story of her life. Plenty of name-dropping with collaborations both in her artwork and her m...

from Opinionated

For a girl who was in a band (Sonic Youth) for 30 years, she doesn't seem to have that much to say about it. Yes, the book opens with Sonic Youth playing their last ever gig and Kim Gordon's feelings of resentment to her husband, and bandmate, Thurston Moore, who had recently left her for another...

from pivic

While this book is similar to that which Gordon previously has published, by means of mentioning art, dropping names and quickly going over events and people, this book has something special in that she goes through her marriage breaking apart due to her former husband's infidelity; she writes ab...