Kim Gordon

Pioneer Works is excited to team up with Bang on a Can to present the opening night of Long Play 2025 with a performance from the iconic Kim Gordon with her band in the Main Hall. In addition to Kim Gordon'a opening concert, the we'll be co-present another amazing show in our Main Hall this May featuring a 90th Birthday Tribute to Terry Riley on Sunday, May 4th. For more information about Bang on a Can's Long Play Festival, please visit their website. About Kim Gordon With a career spanning nearly four decades, Kim Gordon is one of the most prolific and visionary artists today. A co-founder of the legendary Sonic Youth, Gordon has performed all over the world, collaborating with many of music’s most exciting figures including Tony Conrad, Ikue Mori, Julie Cafritz and Stephen Malkmus. Despite the exhaustive nature of her résumé, the most reliable aspect of Gordon’s music may be its resistance to formula. Songs discover themselves as they unspool, each one performing a test of the medium’s possibilities and limits. Her command is astonishing, but Gordon’s artistic curiosity remains the guiding force behind her music. Gordon continued this pursuit on 2019’s No Home Record, her first-ever solo release, produced by Justin Raisen (Angel Olsen, John Cale, Charli XCX, etc.). Borrowing its name from a Chantal Akerman film, No Home Record is, in many ways, a return as much as it is a departure. When Gordon first began playing music in the early 1980s, she used a guitar, a drum machine, and some lyrics sniped from magazine advertisement copy. No Home Record contains echoes of that setup, in both form and concept while highlighting Gordon’s capacity to meld cultural critique, divulgence and humor. Front to back, No Home Record is an expert operation in the uncanny. You don’t simply listen to Gordon’s music; you experience it. Her second solo studio album, The Collective, was released in March 2024, and received two nominations at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards: Best Alternative Music Album and Best Alternative Music Performance.