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possible-streetwear · 6 months

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Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth, Body/Head, Free Kitten)

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ourladyofomega · 1 year

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Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth, Body/Head, Free Kitten).

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#Kim Gordon #NYC #New York City #art rock #alternative #Sonic Youth #Body/Head #Free Kitten #omega #our lady omega

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musickickztoo · 1 year

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Kim Gordon *April 28, 1953

#kim gordon #sonic youth #free kitten #body/head #april 28 #70

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morganyevans · 1 year

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Kingston After Dark: The Body/Head connection (backup of my interview from 2019)

1991: The Year Punk Broke was pretty much my almost daily afternoon home video consumption in high school after cutting class and taking acid during the day.

I cannot understate how much the classic noise-rock and grunge-era tour documentary meant to me and opened my mind, heart and ears to a lifetime of appreciating bands with edge, passion and a feminist streak, not to mention the joy of seeing Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon clowning around with Kurt Cobain.

I never thought decades later I would get a chance to talk to Gordon myself. Her fabulous noise landscape painting band Body/Head (with fellow guitarist Bill Nace) has a sophomore record called The Switch out on indie giants Matador Records as of July 13. It is an unromanticized-yet-meditative collection of moody guitar swells and poetic fragments as well as an excellent boundary-pushing follow-up to their 2013 debut Coming Apart and 2016 live album No Waves.

It was a genuine pleasure for myself and my partner Elizabeth Gomez (a.k.a. psych folk singer Globelamp) to interview Kim and Bill before their upcoming BSP Kingston back room theater appearance on Friday, July 20.

Morgan Evans: BSP is a great, non-corporate venue that has grown out of community love and involvement. How did you end up stopping here?

Bill Nace: Someone offered for us to play there and it fit into our routing. I don’t know much about Kingston. I saw Television once. My friend Angel [Deradoorian] opened. There is a poet, Ben Estes, who actually used to live with Kim who I think lives up there now and runs a publishing imprint called The Song Cave. Is Grasshopper from Mercury Rev still there?

Morgan: Yeah, he’s my friend! I am hoping he will do a song with me on my next Walking Bombs album. Kim, I wanted to know if you saw The Center Will Not Hold documentary on Netflix about Joan Didion. I know you mentioned her in your memoir, Girl in a Band. Did you like it?

Kim Gordon: I did. I thought it was pretty fluffy, but I liked learning she would get up in the morning and wear her dark glasses to have a Pepsi for breakfast.

Morgan: I remember that part! It was amazing! Your music in Body/Head is so expansive. There is a lot of debate right now about visibility and why music called “experimental” is often given that category when it is made by white people and not by other races. Everyone can experience things in a unique way, even through a pop song. What was some formative music that made you start to dissect music in a different way and opened your mind? Your records are kind of an experience rather than someone performing a genre.

Bill Nace: That’s a big one. I think experimental is such a weird phrase. We are not experimenting. We know what we are doing. Experimental is like a word that is seen in contrast with pop music. I never feel like I am commenting on pop music or trying to deconstruct that. It is more our own thing. Everyone thinks of pop music as the norm but that doesn’t have to really be the case. There are unlimited access points into music.

Elizabeth Gomez: Kim, I’ve been in the music scene only a little bit and have encountered a lot of sexism. I can only imagine how much you have, being such a pillar in the scene for so long. As a rock icon, do you have any advice for women who want to keep focusing on their art and drown that stuff out?

Kim: I would just … play louder [laughing]. It’s no different than anywhere else, the culture. I guess I got used to working from a position as a bass player that was sort of a supportive role, initially. If you are not directly in the limelight you can be more observant about things and kind of … I don’t know. It’s so normal to be in a male dominated society that it’s kind of … I guess my bar of expectations is a little bit low. [Laughs.] Especially right now with a Supreme Court opening and everything. At the same time, you can’t really stop energy. The wrath of millions of women will be really hard to contain if Roe v. Wade gets really fucked with. It’s coming to a head, in a weird way. I hope it’s not coming to a head in like a “the end of the world” way [laughs].

Elizabeth: The bar is kind of low. I know what you mean. Our president is Trump.

Kim: I guess I am used to working with limitations, is what I am saying. I kind of like that, in a way. I make it work for me. By people not expecting certain things from you, you can kind of surprise them.

Morgan: So, the song itself and song title for your track “Change My Brain” jumped out to me. People cry about “fake news” and trolls try to muddy the waters online so people can’t determine facts anymore. It makes gaslighting easier. We all have some cultural biases, but you can just hear a song and it can make you relax or feel unity at times. That piece was strong and has a great crawling tension build. Music can reset our brains sometimes back to a better reality.

Bill: For us, we try to go in and focus and play. We play and then go back to what we have done and a world and thread happens without us trying to steer it. “Change My Brain,” I came up with that name on tour a few years ago as a possible 7-inch title. We had been on tour for awhile and I just felt insane. I think we like titles like that that are really open so the listener and audience are active participants, rather than putting a fine point on anything.

#body/head #sonicyouth #noiserock #artrock #kimgordon #billnace #matador #punk

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mxdwn · 1 year

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Kim Gordon Releases Surprise EP As Body/Head

https://music.mxdwn.com/2023/05/07/news/kim-gordon-releases-surprise-ep-as-body-head/

#kim gordon #body/head #suprise #bill nace #new ep

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maquina-semiotica · 1 year

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Body/Head, "Last Time" #NowPlaying

#Body/Head #Spotify

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cadenceswishes · 6 months

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Day 4 of me shamelessly promoting my covers, because I work hard on them (u‿ฺu✿ฺ)

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angy-brows · 5 months

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Been watching alot of Lethal Company gameplay and it finally inspired me to draw something.

#lethal company #comic #comic art #coil head #horror comic #horror art #body horror cw #body horror tw

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bamsara · 2 months

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I like your eldritch form

#trod au #the rehabilitation of death #??? idk if it counts as au or not but in my head it does so in the tag it goes #narilamb #cult of the lamb #cotl narinder #cotl toww #the one who waits #cotl lamb #doodles #tw blood #tw horror #body horror

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lotus-pear · 6 months

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every time i think abt their canon height difference i want to eat drywall

#ISTG I COULD NOT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD GET THE ANATOMY RIGHT FOR THIS ONE IDK WHY😭😭#anyway they make me sick in the head i try to go one day without thinking abt them and my rotting brain starts shutting down #they're like the iv drip that's keeping my sickly malnourished deteriorating body alive #live laugh love soukoku #bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #bsd #dazai osamu #osamu dazai #chuuya nakahara #nakahara chuuya #soukoku #skk #lotus draws

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1eos · 8 months

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'tumblr is full of 14 year olds' wrong tumblr is full of 24 year olds who just don't do anything. and that's okay

#its not weird to be a virgin or to not smoke weed #it IS weird to have an emotional reaction to someone else not having sex or doing drugs #like if fucking n smoking was sooooo cool u'd be doing that rn!#and ofc vice versa mx robotpussy is so real #bc of who i follow i see more of the shaming ppl who don't have sex but ive seen the weird terminally online ppl #who haven't killed the cop in their head trying to police ppl who are just doing things with their own bodies #and i can say from personal experience ppl who do drugs are so chill abt it if you don't wanna smoke they won't pressure you #like it's ok to have sex it's ok not to it's weird if you care like they're not not fucking you keep scrolling

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possible-streetwear · 9 months

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Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth, Body/Head, Free Kitten)

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i-ate-the-rats · 9 months

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just think about it.

#Hobie's costume will change with him #noir: gray head and color music instead of body #peter is clearly in love #he will spin in front of the mirror for hours #wonderful cliché. give me two.#I see problems but see no reason to try to fix them #noirpunk #hobie brown #spider noir #spider man: across the spider verse #atsv hobie #hobie brown fanart #spider man noir #across the spiderverse #punknoir

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musickickztoo · 1 year

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CONTRA2023 - 7

TRACKLIST:

Thee Headcoats - Thee Headcoatitude Killer Kin - On A Chain Protomartyr - Elimination Dances House Of All - Ayenbite Thin Lassie - Invaders From Venus The Hannah Barberas - You're So?! Smirk - Bored By Everything The Revox - You Treat Me So Bad Tinariwen - Anemouhagh Thee Gloomies - Cry Tramhaus - Minus Twenty The Dirt - Rant Two Sex Mex - Electric Chair Graham Day and the Gaolers - Mystery Man MOAR - I Need Power Astrologer - Out Of Step Speedy Ortiz - Scabs Body/Head - Come On

The 7h playlist of the year!

Listen: https://www.mixcloud.com/Contraflow/contra2023-7/

Try it, you might even like it!!

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maquina-semiotica · 1 year

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Body/Head, "You Don't Need" #NowPlaying

#Body/Head #Spotify

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beautygorgeousgirls · 29 days

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#gorgeous #amazing body #beautiful #so hot 🔥🔥🔥#red head #ginger

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