Girl in a band audiobook

The 288page memoir was published on february 24, 2015 by dey street books, an imprint of harper collins. Right now, im getting started with girl in a band, the new memoir released by kim gordon, the cofounder of the influential indie rock band, sonic youth. Eighteenyearold moira mitchell grew up in the shadows of vegass stage lights while her fathers career as a magician soared. But at its core, girl in a band examines the route from girl to woman in uncharted territory, music, art career, what partnership means and what happens when that identity dissolves. Girl in a band is a study of her subsequent disillusionment. The band part is way less important, especially since this is far from another rockandroll cliche.

The band helped build a vocabulary of musicpaving the way for nirvana, hole, smashing pumpkins and many other acts. Girl in the song tells the gripping, true story of a young woman whose choices led her to despair and incredible triumph. Download hundreds of free audio books, mostly classics, to your mp3 player or computer. The band helped build a vocabulary of musicpaving the way for nirvana, hole, smashing pumpkins, and many other acts. Girl in the song by chrissy cymbala toledo overdrive. Kim gordon, founding member of sonic youth, fashion icon, and role model for a generation of women, now tells her storya memoir of life as an artist, of music, marriage, motherhood, independence, and as one of the first women of rock and roll.

Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone. The story of the worlds greatest girl band audiobook. Before carrie brownstein became a music icon, she was a young girl growing up in the pacific. Girl in a band by kim gordon audiobook listen online. More than anything, moira wants to be a magician too, but her father is dead set against her pursuing magic. The band helped build a vocabulary of music paving the way for nirvana, hole, smashing pumpkins, and many other acts.

Often described as aloof, kim gordon opens up as never. More than the story of one lost girl, chrissys experience points to the power of hope to lead us away from destructive relationships and into a life that just might end happily ever after. Girl in a band audiobook by kim gordon 9780062374073. Rough trade has made available online five audio clips, starting with gordon reading from chapter 1. But at its core, girl in a band examines the route from girl to woman in uncharted territory, music, art career, what partnership means. She was the driver for putting a gerhard richter painting on the cover of 1989s daydream nation, enlisting raymond pettibon for the cover of 1990s goo, and girl in a band named after gordon. Exceptional readings, available to download to your tablet or smartphone on bbc sounds. Girls to the front is the epic, definitive history of riot grrrl, the radical feminist uprising that exploded into the public eye in the 1990s and included incendiary punk bands bikini kill, more want to read. Theres a lot of appropriation going on, and kim speaks quite openly about the ways various songs, album covers, and other projects were influenced by other artists. A memoir is a 2015 autobiography written by former sonic youth bass guitarist, vocalist and songwriter kim gordon. Girl in a band audiobook by kim gordon rakuten kobo. The band helped build a vocabulary of music paving the way for nirvana, hole, smashing pumpkins and many other acts.

Kim gordon, founding member of sonic youth, fashion icon, and role model for a generation of women, now tells her storya memoir of life as an artist, of. The overall tone of girl in a band is bittersweet, rather than bitter. The concept of a girl in a band is actually secondary, but the idea of a girl in life, and art thats the actual foundation of this book. The girl in the glass tower audiobook by elizabeth fremantle part 1 by dewayne lee. Telling the story of her family, growing up in california in the 60s and 70s, her life in visual.

Gordon, of course, was the bassist for sonic youth, the legendary. But at its core, girl in a band examines the route from girl to woman in uncharted territory, music, art career, what partnership meansand what happens when that identity dissolves. Kim gordon describes final sonic youth show in girl in a. What i found most interesting about girl in a band was the way kim gordons experiences in the manhattan art world of the 1980s affected her other creative pursuits, including music. Often described as aloof, kim gordon opens up as never before in girl in a band.

Episode 1 monday big girl, small town by michelle gallen. From the guitarist of the pioneering band sleaterkinney, the book kim gordon says everyone has been waiting for and a new york times notable book of 2015 a candid, funny, and deeply personal look at making a lifeand finding yourselfin music. Sonic youth, the seminal alternative rock, postpunk new york group she formed in 1981 with her thenboyfriend, later husband, thurston moore. The readers awareness that gordons resources of rapture are finite makes her a more sympathetic character as a narrator. Until the band and their marriagebroke up in 2011, the author sang and played bass, made art, and raised a daughter. Gordon takes us back to the lost new york of the 1980s and 90s that gave rise to sonic youth, and the alternative revolution in popular music. Kim gordon, founding member of sonic youth, fashion icon, and role model for a generation of women, now tells her story. But at its core, girl in a band examines the route from girl to woman in uncharted territory, music, art career, what partnership meansand what. The story of the worlds greatest girl band audiobook by sean smith.

Billboards podcast alt in our stars featured kim gordon as a guest today where she unveiled the first five minutes of the audiobook to her upcoming memoir girl in a band. Hunger makes me a modern girl by carrie brownstein. But at its core, girl in a band examines the route from a girl to a woman in uncharted territory, highlighting unconventional music, art, and the meaning of partnershipand what happens when that identity dissolves. This is a fancy way of saying that im probably in the sweet spot when it comes to kim gordons memoir, girl in a band. Telling the story of her family, growing up in california in the 60s and 70s, her life in visual art, her move to new york city, the men in her life, her marriage, her relationship with her daughter, her music, and her band, girl in a band is a rich and beautifully written memoir. Read an exclusive excerpt from kim gordons new memoir, girl in a.