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News Articles: Kim Gordon

Listening to Kim Gordon's new album <em>The Collective </em>uncannily bottles up the feeling of being on the Internet, trying to discern what's real and what's not.

Kim Gordon on her intense, disorienting, beat-driven new solo album, 'The Collective'

The artist's radically inventive new album produced with Justin Raisen plays like an apt distillation of what it's like to live right now.

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  • Paula Mejía
In her 2015 memoir, <em>Girl in a Band</em>, Kim Gordon credits The Shangri-Las' speak-sing style as an influence on her own. The '60s girl-group's lead singer, Mary Weiss, died last week.

Kim Gordon raps her shopping list — it's hot and terrifying

Sonic Youth's co-founder took her cues from a '60s girl-group but forges a new lane. NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich functions as your antidote to the algorithm in eight tracks to know this week.

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  • Lars Gotrich
On Aug. 12, 2011, Sonic Youth played the Williamsburg Waterfront in Brooklyn; it would be the band's final concert in the United States.

The sunset of Sonic Youth: An oral history of the band's final U.S. show

For the first time, the band members, their crew and their fans tell the story of a landmark moment they didn't realize was happening. Sonic Youth's new album, Live in Brooklyn 2011, is out this week.

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  • Grayson Haver Currin