• Kim Gordon – No Home Record

    November 5, 2019 - By 

    “The way the word ‘empowered’ is used makes feminism more digestible … I wanted to make work that was maybe less digestible.” This was Kim Gordon in conversation with Sinéad Gleeson at Dublin’s Light House Cinema this past July, having launched an exhibition of her visual art at the IMMA entitled She bites her tender mind. Its title is derived from one of Sappho’s fragments, connecting the project to the ancient poet’s evocations of feminine beauty and desire – while also nodding to the broken-down language that has consistently graced Gordon’s own work, in both her coolly minimalist lyrics and the shredded phrases…

  • Body/Head w/ Heather Leigh & Elaine Kahn @ IMMA, Dublin

    July 29, 2019 - By 

    The end of Sonic Youth’s 30 year career in 2011 was the end of an indie rock era, but it’s been some consolation that the band’s remarkable consistency has largely carried across to each member’s post-SY projects. Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo’s solo careers have both largely carried on where their contributions to the band left off, both even sharing joint custody of drummer Steve Shelley. But it’s arguably Kim Gordon who has remained most in touch with Sonic Youth’s avant-garde roots. Since forming experimental guitar duo Body/Head with Bill Nace, their three albums of freeform guitar exploration so far…

  • Body/Head Set For Dublin Show

    June 18, 2019 - By 

    Body/Head, the American experimental electric guitar duo comprised of Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon and Bill Nace, will perform in Dublin next month. Kicking off Gordon’s exhibition ‘She bites her tender mind’ – which runs in the building’s Courtyard Galleries from July 27-November 10 – the pair will play The Irish Museum of Modern Art on July 27. The performance takes place as part of An Evening With Kim Gordon, which will also poet Elaine Kahn and guitar Heather Leigh. Tickets will go on sale on Wednesday, June 19th at 9am, priced €25.00.