Kim Gordon
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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Movies (90)
Avec Kim
2026 · Kim, Original Music Composer
Marc by Sofia
2026 · Self
The Best Summer
2026 · Self
The Chronology of Water
2025 · Photographer
Sonic Youth: Live in 1991
2025
Pavements
2025 · Self (uncredited)
Bad Painter
2025 · Interviewer
FireAid Benefit Concert
2025 · Self
Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story
2024
12341 Branford St. Sun Valley
2023 · Self, Director
Picture Window
2022 · Kim Gordon, Director
Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
2021 · Self
Los Angeles June 6
2020 · Self, Director
Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond
2019
SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
2019 · Self
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
2019
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
2018 · Corky
Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution
2017 · Self
Ed Ruscha: Buildings and Words
2016 · Self
Girls in Bands at the BBC
2015 · Self (archive footage)
The Nightmare
2015 · Teacher
The Punk Singer
2013 · Self
Une Danse Des Bouffons
2013 · Maria Martins
I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney
2013
A Proposal for A Dance
2012 · Self
Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
2011
Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival
2011
Lights Out
2010 · Music
Sonic Youth & The Black Keys: Live at Austin City Limits 2011
2010
Rappin' With The Rickster
2010 · Self
Massage the History
2009 · Music
From the Basement
2009 · Self - Sonic Youth
From The Basement
2009 · Self - Sonic Youth
New York Rock at the BBC
2008 · Self - Sonic Youth
365 Day Project
2007 · Self
Welcome to My Castle!
2007 · Self
I'm Not There
2007 · Carla Hendricks
Boarding Gate
2007 · Kay
Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East
2007 · Self
Her Noise - The Making Of
2006
Cut Shorts
2006
Noise
2006 · Self
Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
2005
Last Days
2005 · Record Executive
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
2004 · Original Music Composer
(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
2004 · Self
Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
2004
The Work of Director Spike Jonze
2003 · Director
Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage
2003 · Performer
Me Myself and the Universe
2003 · Music
Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
2003
Demonlover
2002 · Original Music Composer
Things Behind the Sun
2001 · Original Music Composer
Kiss My Grits: The Herstory of Women in Punk and Hard Rock
2001 · Self
Sonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000
2000
Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth
2000 · Self
Free Tibet
1998 · Self - Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim
1998
Teenie Weenie Boppie
1997 · Director
Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
1996
Tibetan Freedom Concert
1996 · Self
The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
1995 · Self
Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love
1995
Sonic Youth: Blood on the Beach
1995 · Self
X-Girl
1995 · interviewer, Executive Producer
Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!
1994 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos
1994 · Self
No Alternative Girls
1994 · Herself
Changing Fashions
1993
Sonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa
1993
Grunge Pedal
1993
1991: The Year Punk Broke
1992 · Self
Skeeno H.C. Rules
1991
Goo
1991 · Self, Writer, Music
Notebook
1991
Weatherman '69
1989 · Bernadine Dohrn
Sonic Youth: 930 Club
1988
Put More Blood Into the Music
1988 · Herself
Lou Believers
1988 · Herself
Made in U.S.A.
1987 · Original Music Composer
Sonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis
1986
Sublapse Video Mag 1
1986
Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree
1985
Submit to Me
1985
Making the Nature Scene
1985 · Director
Rock My Religion
1984 · Music, Idea
Kiss
1963 · Music
Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985
Sonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996
Sonic Youth: Full Set From The Basement
· Self
TV shows (15)
Estamos todos en vivo con John Mulaney
2025 · Self - Musical Guest
Women Who Rock
2022 · Self
Party Legends
2016
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Self - Musical Guest
Portlandia
2011 · Kim Gordon
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
2009 · Self - Musical Guest
Gossip Girl
2007 · Kim Gordon
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Self - Musical Guest
Gilmore Girls
2000 · Cool Mom Troubadour
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Self - Musical Guest
Late Show with David Letterman
1993 · Self - Musical Guest
Later... with Jools Holland
1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992 · Self - Musical Guest
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Self (uncredited)
The Grammys
1959 · Self