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  The charm of Sonic Youth

 Profile of the Muse

 Birth: 23 April 1958 (and not 1953) , los angeles
School: santa monica college, toronto high school Art and Design otis school (specialized in modern dance)
Status: married to thurston moore
Children: Coco [5 year old]
Position in the band: she plays bass. but she plays guitar on 'washing machine' and SYR1 pre-sonic band : she was in a band at york university, she arrived in new york in 1980.
 
 
 
 
Favorite bands and influence: Billy Holiday, Dinosaur Jr., Black Flag, Germs ....
Side projects: Free Kitten, X-Girl (kim's fashion company)
Equipment: bass : (currently) A 1962 Precision Bass, (in the past) Rickenbacker, Jazz Bass, B.C. Rich and a round no-name bass from the Confusion days. guitar : Amid-60's Les Paul custom. amps : Mesa/Boogie head with Mesa/Boogie 4x10 bass cabinet and 1x15 guitar cabinet. effect : Dunlop Jimi Hendrix octave divider box, Pro-Co Rat, wah-wah.
Play in other bands: Harry Crews, Mudhoney (plays with), Free Kitten, Die Haut (plays with), The Lucky Sperms, Epic Soundtracks (plays with) (she also helps for lot of other album).
Kim and Sonic Youth

The iconoclastic noisemakers Sonic Youth have their roots in New York's "No Wave" music scene of the early 1980s. Despite a tumultuous history of personnel changes, fan backlash and record label catfights, the band survived to become one of the most improbable success stories of the last decade.
  
 
 
 
 
In 1981 guitarists Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo, singer/bassist Kim Gordon and drummer Richard Edson played their first gig at New York's "Noise Festival." Four years and as many drummers later, the band hit their stride, mixing their dissonant avant garde sound with more conventional pop song rhythms. In 1985, now backed by drummer Steve Shelley, Sonic Youth signed with SST Records. The union was short-lived however; after arguing with SST over royalty payments, the band began distrubuting through Enigma Records in 1986. Their mid-'80s trilogy, Evol (1986), Sister (1987) and Daydream Nation (1988) firmly established their popularity on the college music scene.
  Throughout their career Sonic Youth have straddled the fence of mainstream culture; at once embracing it and making fun of it. The band's offshoot project, Ciccone Youth, was a tongue-in-cheek jab at pop diva Madonna. Their release, The Whitey Album(1988), featured a parody of Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love."
 
 
 
 
 

In 1990, the band kissed their indie status goodbye and shocked many of their hardcore fans when they signed with David Geffen's DGC label, explaining their jump to the mainstream recording industry as a "Warholian art-act."



The band collaborated with rapper Chuck D on "Kool Thing,"a single off their 1990 release Goo. In the early 90s Sonic Youth toured with such bands as Public Enemy, Mudhoney and Nirvana. They agreed to open for Neil Young on his 1991 "Ragged Glory" tour, further buttressing their entree into the mainstream. Young called the band's "Expressway to Yr Skull" one of the greatest guitar songs ever written.

  
 
 
 
 
 
In 1999 Sonic Youth released Goodbye 20th Century, a two CD set of pieces by modern classical and avant-garde composers like John Cage and Steve Reich. Their latest, NYC Ghosts And Flowers, was released in 2000.