Kim Gordon

Kim Gordon

Born: April 28, 1953
in Rochester, New York, USA
Kim Althea Gordon (born April 28, 1953) is an American musician, vocalist, artist, record producer, video director and actress. She is lead singer, bass and guitarist in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth, and in Free Kitten with Julia Cafritz (of Pussy Galore). Gordon has collaborated with a number of musicians, including Ikue Mori, DJ Olive, William Winant, Lydia Lunch, Courtney Love, Alan Licht and Chris Corsano.

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Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story
Title: Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story
Released: October 27, 2023
Type: Movie
Formed in 1978 by brothers Jeff and Steve McDonald, and still actively playing and recording today, Redd Kross are the ultimate rock and roll lifers. They have influenced independent music in ways that beg to be acknowledged. From helping invent Beach Punk to influencing the Grunge and Glam Metal movements, Redd Kross have maintained the highest level of musical integrity, originality and quality for over forty years. Born Innocent will introduce a wider audience to two of the coolest people alive. The McDonald Brothers embody Southern California, rock and roll, and what it means to be an artist.
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Bad Painter
Title: Bad Painter
Character: Interviewer
Released: June 6, 2022
Type: Movie
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Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
Title: Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
Character: herself
Released: October 1, 2021
Type: Movie
The American indie rock band “Dinosaur Jr.” is a radical group with an unmistakeable sound. The film tells the story the three charismatic guys in the band: J. Mascis (vocals, guitar), Lou Barlow (bass) and Murph (drums).
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SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
Title: SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
Character: Self
Released: May 27, 2019
Type: Movie
A fly-on-the-wall documentary about the recording of the music score by Sonic Youth.
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Daydream Nation
Title: Daydream Nation
Released: February 23, 2019
Type: Movie
A concert film of Sonic Youth performing their Daydream Nation album in full at the ABC in Glasgow.
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Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
Title: Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
Character: Corky
Released: April 4, 2018
Type: Movie
On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life.
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Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution
Title: Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution
Character: Self
Released: June 12, 2017
Type: Movie
A documentary on Queercore, the cultural and social movement that began as an offshoot of punk and was distinguished by its discontent with society's disapproval of the gay, bisexual, lesbian and transgender communities.
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The Realest Real
Title: The Realest Real
Character: Herself
Released: September 12, 2016
Type: Movie
The Realest Real is a humorous exploration of the fickle and instant world of the internet.
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Title: Party Legends
Released: July 7, 2016
Type: TV
Notable and notorious personalities share their most candid party stories with help from emerging artists and animators.
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Ed Ruscha: Buildings and Words
Title: Ed Ruscha: Buildings and Words
Character: Self
Released: May 1, 2016
Type: Movie
Commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles on the occasion of their 2016 Gala event, 'Ed Ruscha: Buildings and Words' traces two recurring themes in the artist's 60-year oeuvre.
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Girls in Bands at the BBC
Title: Girls in Bands at the BBC
Released: October 30, 2015
Type: Movie
Compilation celebrating some guitar band performances at the BBC that feature some of the best female musicians in rock. Beginning with the oft-forgotten American group Fanny performing You're the One, it's a journey along rock's spectrum from the 1970s to now. The selection includes the powerful vocals of Elkie Brooks on Vinegar Joe's Proud to Be a Honky Woman, the mesmerising poetry of Patti Smith's Horses and the upbeat energy of the Go-Go's on We Got the Beat. Mighty basslines come courtesy of Tina Weymouth on Psycho Killer and Kim Gordon on Sugar Kane, whilst we trace the line of indie rock from the Au Pairs through Lush, Elastica and Garbage to current band Savages.
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The Nightmare
Title: The Nightmare
Character: Teacher
Released: July 1, 2015
Type: Movie
After a massive party one evening, 17-year-old Tina begins experiencing nightmares in which she is haunted by an unusual creature.
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The Punk Singer
Title: The Punk Singer
Character: Herself
Released: November 29, 2013
Type: Movie
A look at the life of activist, musician, and cultural icon Kathleen Hanna, who formed the punk band Bikini Kill and pioneered the "riot grrrl" movement of the 1990s.
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Une Danse Des Bouffons
Title: Une Danse Des Bouffons
Character: Maria Martins
Released: November 28, 2013
Type: Movie
In this Dadaist love story there are many recurring themes: death and rebirth, multiple identities and doppelgangers, false prophets, love and love lost, the corruption of power and fragility of what is real or true. Using a recreation of Marcel Duchamp's Etant Donnes, a trickster of old mythology awakens Maria Martins (played by Kim Gordon) from the dream state. She learns that her lover, a captive Marcel Duchamp, has been kidnapped by a group of terrorists and forced to recite the chess moves to a historical match. Maria must enter a deep and strange rabbit hole to save her love.
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I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney
Title: I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney
Released: October 20, 2013
Type: Movie
This documentary tells the story of Mudhoney from their very beginnings, to following them on their recent world tour and everything in between. Complete with testimonials from friends, music industry veterans and musicians such as Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament, Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, Soundgarden's Kim Thayil and Mudhoney themselves. This is the true story of the founding fathers of Grunge.
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Title: Portlandia
Character: Kim Gordon
Released: January 21, 2011
Type: TV
Satirical sketch comedy set and filmed in Portland, Oregon that explores the eccentric misfits who embody the foibles of modern culture.
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Rappin' With The Rickster
Title: Rappin' With The Rickster
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
Join photographer turned public access guru Ricky Powell in this collection of clips from his influential NY TV show, Rappin' With The Rickster.
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From The Basement
Title: From The Basement
Character: Self
Released: March 8, 2009
Type: Movie
First DVD release from this refreshingly basic UK music programme puts the music in the foreground with an impressive role call of acts. With sparse production and no filler (no host, no audience, just artist centre stage), From The Basement's eclectic line-up reads like a contemporary alternative who's who; The White Stripes, Sonic Youth, Radiohead, Thom Yorke, Albert Hammond Jr., The Shins, Beck, Damien Rice, José González, Super Furry Animals, Eels, and more.
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New York Rock at the BBC
Title: New York Rock at the BBC
Character: Self - Sonic Youth
Released: June 24, 2008
Type: Movie
Celebrating the cream of the New York rock scene, including classic performances from the Ramones, New York Dolls, Television, Blondie, Lou Reed and more. 01.New York Dolls - Jet Boy (Nov 1973) 02.Patti Smith Group - Horses (May 1976) 03.Talking Heads - Psycho Killer (Jan 1978) 04.Television - Foxhole (May 1978) 05.Ramones - Don't Come Close (Sep 1978) 06.Blondie - I'm Alway Touched By Your Presence Dear (Mar 1978) 07.Lou Reed - Waiting For The Man (Dec 1984) 08.John Cale - Dying On The Vine (Dec 1985) 09.Sonic Youth - Sugar Kane (Dec 1992) 10.Patti Smith - Because The Night (Apr 2002) 11.Lou Reed - Perfect Day (May 2003) 12.John Cale - Venus In Furs (Oct 2003) 13.David Byrne - This Must Be The Place (May 2004) 14.Antony And The johnsons - Hope There's Some One (Jun 2005) 15.The Strokes - Last Nite (Jun 2006)
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I'm Not There
Title: I'm Not There
Character: Carla Hendricks
Released: October 1, 2007
Type: Movie
Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger to international icon and revealing how Dylan constantly reinvented himself.
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Title: Gossip Girl
Character: Kim Gordon
Released: September 19, 2007
Type: TV
An exclusive group of privileged teens from a posh prep school on Manhattan's Upper East Side whose lives revolve around the blog of the all-knowing albeit ultra-secretive Gossip Girl.
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Boarding Gate
Title: Boarding Gate
Character: Kay
Released: August 22, 2007
Type: Movie
A beautiful woman, Sandra, seduces a wealthy businessman, Miles Rennburg. Little does he realise that she has been sent to kill him at the behest of her boyfriend/crime partner, Lester. Controlling all this is Sue, Lester's wife.
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Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East
Title: Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East
Character: Herself
Released: May 29, 2007
Type: Movie
Filmed during their 2005 reunion tour, this release captures the sonic guitar assaults of Dinosaur Jr. onstage, playing the songs "Gargoyle," "Little Fury Things," "Just Like Heaven," and more. Also included is rare behind-the-scenes footage featuring the band, as well as interviews with Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Mike Watt (The Minutemen), and guitarist Steve Albini.
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Her Noise - The Making Of
Title: Her Noise - The Making Of
Released: November 26, 2006
Type: Movie
Her Noise was an exhibition which took place at South London Gallery in 2005 with satellite events at Tate Modern and Goethe-Institut, London. Her Noise gathered international artists who use sound to investigate social relations, inspire action or uncover hidden soundscapes. The exhibition included newly commissioned works by Kim Gordon & Jutta Koether, Hayley Newman, Kaffe Matthews, Christina Kubisch, Emma Hedditch and Marina Rosenfeld. A parallel ambition of the project was to investigate music and sound histories in relation to gender, and the curators set out to create a lasting resource in this area.
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Cut Shorts
Title: Cut Shorts
Released: September 6, 2006
Type: Movie
A collection of short films and music videos from independent filmmaker David Markey, from 1974 to 2004.
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Noise
Title: Noise
Released: June 15, 2006
Type: Movie
Footage from 2005’s Festival Art Rock in Saint-Brieuc, France, featuring Metric, Sonic Youth, Jeanne Balibar, and other acts.
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Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
Title: Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
Released: July 3, 2005
Type: Movie
Sonic Youth's 2005 performance at Les Eurockéennes de Belfort festival, one of France's largest rock music festivals.
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Last Days
Title: Last Days
Character: Record Executive
Released: June 12, 2005
Type: Movie
The life and struggles of a notorious rock musician seeping into a pit of loneliness whose everyday life involves friends and family seeking financial aid and favors, inspired by rock music legend Kurt Cobain and his final hours.
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(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
Title: (This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
Character: Himself
Released: September 12, 2004
Type: Movie
While planning the eventual DVD release for "1991: The Year Punk Broke", Dave Markey cut a 40-minute film out of unused footage to create a companion piece to include. The film was also shown to a handful of lucky audiences before the DVD's eventual release in 2011. It's an awesome bonus with tons of great footage that could have easily been in the film. These songs were probably the best to leave out of the full-length film, since 2 were brand new and still quite shaky. The only tour staple not accounted for in either film is "Mary-Christ". Here are the sources I could determine: Inhuman - ?? White Kross - 08/27/91 Bremen Orange Rolls, Angel's Spit - 08/24/91 Koln In Bloom (Nirvana) - 09/01/91 Rotterdam Eric's Trip - 09/01/91 Rotterdam (but spoken intro is from 08/25/91?) Tunic snippet - 08/27/91 Bremen Chapel Hill - 08/27/91 Bremen
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Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
Title: Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
Released: June 8, 2004
Type: Movie
A compilation of 24 music videos by Sonic Youth ranging from 1990 to 2002. Collaborators include Harmony Korine, Spike Jonze, Todd Haynes, Mark Romanek, Richard Kern, and more.
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Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage
Title: Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage
Character: Performer
Released: September 18, 2003
Type: Movie
Quintessential alternative rockers, Sonic Youth, celebrate free-form experimentalism while reinforcing their performance-art driven tradition in this Soundstage performance, recorded on May 7, 2003 at WTTW Grainger Studio in Chicago. The band, which settles just outside the realm of definition, delivers a part rock, part free-form noise, part avant-garde punk performance which features a new song "Sympathy for the Strawberry."
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Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
Title: Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
Released: April 12, 2003
Type: Movie
Filmed April 12, 2003 at a benefit concert held at and for The Anthology Film Archives, the international center for the preservation, study, and exhibition of avant-garde and independent cinema. In addition to screening films for the public, AFA houses a film museum, research library and art gallery. The event, which raised money for the Archives and celebrated the life and work of avant-garde film maker Stan Brakhage, featured Sonic Youth providing an improvised instrumental collaboration with silent Brakhage’s films. The band performed with drummer/percussionist Tim Barnes (Essex Green, Jukeboxer, Silver Jews).
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Title: Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Character: Self
Released: January 26, 2003
Type: TV
Jimmy Kimmel Live! is an American late-night talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and broadcast on ABC.
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Kiss My Grits: The Herstory of Women in Punk and Hard Rock
Title: Kiss My Grits: The Herstory of Women in Punk and Hard Rock
Character: Self
Released: July 19, 2001
Type: Movie
Part of "The Women in Music" series
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Title: Gilmore Girls
Character: Cool Mom Troubadour
Released: October 5, 2000
Type: TV
Set in the charming town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, the series follows the captivating lives of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, a mother/daughter pair who have a relationship most people only dream of.
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Silver Rockets/Kool Things: 20 Years of Sonic Youth
Title: Silver Rockets/Kool Things: 20 Years of Sonic Youth
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
This portrait of the New York band Sonic Youth marking the band’s 20th anniversary covers its history from the beginnings to today. Numerous video clips and films of live gigs as well as interviews with, and reminiscences of, collaborators over the years will be used to document the musical development of one of the most innovative and influential bands of the last two decades. Contemporaries include former mentor Glenn Branca, composer and conductor of guitar symphonies which had a seminal influence on participating musicians such as Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore, who went on to become Sonic Youth’s guitarists. The band members‘ numerous creative arts projects and other musical activities – in particular improvised music – will be covered in depth.
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Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
Title: Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
Released: July 4, 1996
Type: Movie
Live at Rocknacht, Germany 1996. Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from NewYork City, formed in 1981. In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the No Wave art and music scene in New York City. Part of the first wave of American noise rock groups, the band carried out their interpretation of the hardcore punk ethos throughout the evolving American underground that focused more on the DIY ethic of the genre rather than its specific sound. As a result, some consider Sonic Youth as pivotal in the rise of the alternative rock and indie rock movements.
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The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
Title: The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
Character: Self
Released: October 27, 1995
Type: Movie
Comedy troupe The State hosts a Halloween special on CBS.
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Blood on the Beach
Title: Blood on the Beach
Character: Self
Released: April 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Sonic Youth's Blood on the Beach is comprised of two shows and interview clips recorded in November 1985 in Brighton, UK.
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Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos
Title: Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos
Character: Self
Released: August 16, 1994
Type: Movie
Documentary that gives a voice to the percentage of youth that were outcasts/non-conformists in the 90's. Interviews many famous musicians and other celebrity personalities, who talk about their being outcasts as youths, in school etc., leading up to their successes in adult life, and how being an outcast/non-conformist played a role in their artistic expression.. Also touches upon the topic of teen suicide & depression.
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No Alternative Girls
Title: No Alternative Girls
Character: Herself
Released: February 22, 1994
Type: Movie
No Alternative Girls is a 1994 short film by Tamra Davis.
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1991: The Year Punk Broke
Title: 1991: The Year Punk Broke
Character: Self
Released: November 19, 1992
Type: Movie
David Markey's documentary of life on the road with Sonic Youth and Nirvana during their tour of Europe in late 1991. Also featuring live performances by Dinosaur Jr, Babes in Toyland, The Ramones and Gumball.
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Sonic Youth - Goo
Title: Sonic Youth - Goo
Character: Herself
Released: August 21, 1991
Type: Movie
Promotional music video collection
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Goo
Title: Goo
Character: Herself
Released: June 11, 1991
Type: Movie
For their sixth studio album, Sonic Youth created this film to showcase every song on their album Goo, the ground-breaking, genre-defining, unforgettable record from the noise rock band.
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Goo VHS
Title: Goo VHS
Character: Self
Released: June 11, 1991
Type: Movie
In 1991, a long-form music video version of Goo was released on VHS and LaserDisc. A music video for each song from the album was included; the track listing was identical to that of the original album.
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Notebook
Title: Notebook
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Early Lee Ranaldo short film with spoken word narration. Utilizes some of the same Sonic Youth tour footage as the ‘TeenAge Riot’ video.
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Weatherman '69
Title: Weatherman '69
Character: Bernadine Dohrn
Released: November 17, 1989
Type: Movie
Featuring a cast that includes Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, Mike Watt of the legendary hardcore band Minutemen, and Pettibon himself, this deadpan narrative pays dubious homage to the 1960's radical underground. In this crudely rendered home video of a commune of stoned revolutionaries, the cameras are hand-held, the edits in-camera, and the dialogue is wryly on-target. Pettibon's band of outsiders reenacts a countercultural moment defined by rock music, drugs, and ideological paradox — and in so doing, captures their own late-80's West Coast grunge milieu as well.
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Put More Blood Into the Music
Title: Put More Blood Into the Music
Character: Herself
Released: August 6, 1988
Type: Movie
PBS produced documentary in two parts: the first is dedicated to saxophonist and composer John Zorn; the second is about Sonic Youth at the height of their powers in 1988.
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Lou Believers
Title: Lou Believers
Character: Herself
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, and Lou Reed roam the streets of Los Angeles searching for James Woods.
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Death Valley '69
Title: Death Valley '69
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Death Valley '69 was the first music video by Sonic Youth. The video features the majority of the band in various states of bloody dismemberment interlaced with live footage of the band.
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Submit to Me
Title: Submit to Me
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
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Title: Saturday Night Live
Character: Self - Cameo (uncredited)
Released: October 11, 1975
Type: TV
A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, and features performances by a musical guest.
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Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond
Title: Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
As a fixture of the New York music scene for 30 years, Sonic Youth performed in New York City innumerable times, and served as ersatz cultural ambassadors for the city when traveling. As part of the 2019 Rooftop Films programming, Sonic Youth will present a New York-specific collection of film and videos from their private archives. Much of the material to be presented is completely unseen, threaded together with a few items which are out there in the public knowledge but here presented from the best source available to the band.
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Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985
Title: Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A video documenting Sonic Youth's performance at the Gila Monster Jamboree. Taking place in a remote location in the Mojave Desert, this was the bands first ever show on the West Coast. The bill also included bands such as Meat Puppets, Red Kross and Psi-Com.
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Sonic Youth: From The Basement
Title: Sonic Youth: From The Basement
Character: self
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Track listing: 01:26 - The Sprawl 10:45 - Incinerate 16:15 - Hey Joni 20:42 - Jams Run Free 24:34 - Pink Steam Recorded August 2007 at Maida Vale Studios, in London, England. "From The Basement" features exclusive live music performances with some of the finest A list and emerging talent. Including The White Stripes, Radiohead, Albert Hammond Jr., Beck, Jarvis Cocker, Sonic Youth, PJ Harvey, Mark E Smith, Red Hot Chill Peppers, Feist, Thundercat, José González, Gnarls Barkley, Iggy Pop and The Stooges, Fleet Foxes, The Raconteurs, Band of Horses, Queens of the Stone Age, and many many more.