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Kim Gordon

June 2026

  • A black man wearing shades, a white shirt and sporting blond hair and a woman with long dark hair in a white vest, jeans and a cowboy hat.

    Best culture of 2026 so far
    The best albums of 2026 so far

    From Thundercat’s all-star funk to Kacey Musgraves’ hymns to solitude, we look at some of our favourite music of the last six months from across the pop spectrum

March 2026

  • Kim Gordon in a green outfit by window

    ‘The male ego is even more fragile than it ever was’: Kim Gordon on shyness, AI and Zohran Mamdani’s cool

  • Kim Gordon photographed in 2024.

    Film & Music reader interview
    Post your questions for Kim Gordon

December 2024

  • Kim Gordon, Chappell Roan and Beyoncé.

    Best music of 2024
    The 20 best songs of 2024

    Here are the year’s most outstanding tracks – from Fontaines DC to Beyoncé via Kendrick Lamar – as voted for by 26 Guardian music writers

November 2024

  • Graphic showing various punk stars in cut outs with ink splattered background.

    Anger is an energy! Stars and writers on the songs that define punk spirit

    As Patti Smith’s debut single turns 50, punk musicians and music writers pick the songs that define the genre’s resistance, rebellion and refusal

July 2024

  • Musician Kim Gordon at home in Los Angeles

    10 Chaotic Questions
    Kim Gordon: ‘My most controversial pop culture opinion? I’m not really a fan of Taylor Swift’

  • ‘A beautiful, bold and totally involving album’ … English Teacher.

    ‘A folk music wolf in doom metal clothing’: readers’ favourite albums of 2024 so far

June 2024

  • SZA performs during the Glastonbury Festival.

    Glastonbury live: Sunday with SZA, Shania Twain, Burna Boy and more – as it happened

    Pictures, reviews and more, after Glastonbury’s final day and sets by Avril Lavigne, Janelle Monáe, Steel Pulse, Kim Gordon, the National and others

March 2024

  • Kim Gordon, spotlit, smiling as she ties a blindfold on herself

    Kim Gordon: The Collective review – so close to the edge it sometimes falls off

    The former Sonic Youth bassist’s follow-up to her acclaimed solo debut has some great moments, but tips over into a barrage of distortion

February 2024

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    ‘I’m journalling, just like Taylor Swift’: Kim Gordon on TikTok, motherhood and her revealing new album

    The alt rock pioneer has earned social media adoration for her trap-infused new song Bye Bye. Now she’s following it up with a ‘realistic’ new record , as well as a collection of her late brother’s writing

November 2023

  • Your kiss is not on my list … Hall & Oates in 1984.

    ‘He’s a man with a fork in a world of soup’: the bitterest music-duo spats

    With Hall & Oates now saying ‘no can do’ to their partnership, we look at the other pop pairs who fell out of harmony

October 2023

  • Thurston Moore photographed in London, September 2023, by Phil Fisk for the Observer New Review.

    ‘The band, the scene… I put it all in there’: Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore on his memoir of a rock’n’roll life

    With cameos from William Burroughs and Iggy Pop, Sonic Life – the musician’s new autobiography – chronicles his long relationship with Kim Gordon and life at the vanguard of US indie-rock

May 2022

  • Reliving past glories is not her style … Kim Gordon performing at Koko, London.

    Kim Gordon review – swaggering thrills from musician who refuses to compromise

    Gordon’s post-Sonic Youth career has been restlessly creative, yet her debut solo album No Home Record sounds properly lived-in here

April 2022

  • Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon on stage in 2014.

    Book of the day
    This Woman’s Work edited by Kim Gordon and Sinéad Gleeson review – ‘Music undoes me’

  • British rapper Stormzy performing at the Leeds First Direct Arena.

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer photography

    Gallery20

March 2022

  • Sinéad Gleeson at home in Dublin and Kim Gordon at home in Los Angeles.

    Sinéad Gleeson and Kim Gordon in conversation: ‘The best music books are about grief, politics, family, loss’

    The Irish author and the former Sonic Youth bassist have co-edited an eclectic collection of women’s writing about music that includes Anne Enright and Rachel Kushner

November 2021

  • SONIC YOUTH, Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Steve Shelley, Lee Ranaldo, 1988.<br>HD2KTK SONIC YOUTH, Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Steve Shelley, Lee Ranaldo, 1988.

    Ranked
    Sonic Youth’s greatest songs – ranked!

    As they release two live albums to benefit abortion support groups, we rate the best of the New York band who collided alt-rock with the avant garde in a thrilling noise

October 2021

  • Kylie Minogue and Nick Cave

    PJ Harvey, Sonic Youth, Madonna: the unseen archives of rock photographer Tony Mott

    He’s partied with Queen. Tom Petty had his email. Now one of Australia’s most accomplished rock photographers has been digging through his negatives

May 2020

  • ‘Indie rock’s truly sacred texts’ ... Sonic Youth.

    Listener's digest
    Sonic Youth: where to start in their back catalogue

    In Listener’s digest, our writers help you explore the work of great musicians. Next up: the feedback-worshipping high priests of indie-rock who wedded art and pop

March 2020

  • Kim Gordon

    The Q&A
    Kim Gordon: ‘I was busted for smoking pot at Disneyland’

    The musician on her daughter, Jean-Paul Sartre’s Nausea and why she despises Donald Trump
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