Kim Gordon
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Kim Althea Gordon (born April 28, 1953, in Rochester, New York) plays bass and guitar in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth. She also plays in the band Free Kitten.
In 1989 Gordon, Sadie May, and Lydia Lunch teamed up as the band Harry Crews and released the album Naked in Garden Hills. She also was one of the producers of Hole's first record, Pretty on the Inside, released in 1991, and co-directed (with Spike Jonze) The Breeders "Cannonball" video.
In 1984 she married fellow Sonic Youth member Thurston Moore, with whom she has a daughter, Coco Hayley Gordon Moore. Gordon, Moore, and Coco currently reside in Northampton, Massachusetts. They are frequently sighted in the area and in 2005 played a benefit concert with Cat Power for the Greenfield Center School.
Fellow rock band Rapeman recorded a tribute to her on their album Two Nuns and a Pack Mule entitled "Kim Gordon's Panties."
She is also a well-established artist. She recently appeared in Gus Van Sant's Last Days, a fictionalized biopic of one of her close friends, Kurt Cobain. She is also the only close friend of Cobain's who has publicly claimed that he was murdered<ref>Dalton, Stephen. "Suicide Blond". Uncut Magazine August 2005. Beautifully Scarred. Accessed on August 24 2005.</ref>.
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In the 1999 Sony PlayStation psychological horror videogame Silent Hill, Kim, along with two other members of Sonic Youth, are mentioned in a teacher's directory in one of the levels. Later in the game you acquire a "K. Gordon" key and you pass through her home. In a 2003 sequel, Silent Hill 3, Kim comes up again. You pass through her classroom and learn a little more about the character.
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