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Kim Gordon Announces 2024 Australian Tour

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The former Sonic Youth vocalist,  Kim Gordon  is set to do an Australian Tour, in 2024 supporting her new solo album titled ‘The Collective’. Gordon toured Australia many times before as well.

Kim would be seen performing in Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Melbourne in July and would also make appearances at Open Frame and Unsound Adelaide.

This new LP came along with a music video of the main track titled “Psychedelic Orgasm”, the video has been directed by Gordon herself and the filmmaker/musician/producer Vice Cooler. The LP also features certain singles like “I’m A Man” and “BYE BYE”, which were released earlier and starred Coco Gordon Moore.

“Psychedelic Orgasm” – Kim Gordon

“Gordon will turn 71 next month, and she’s made one of the most daring albums of her career. If you want to get it though, you have to turn it up and submit,” stated Rolling Stones about this album.

“What Gordon has proved in this past decade is that her art, her life, her cool…has never been contingent upon anyone else. With time, and through continued art-making, she has righted her ship and pointed it once again in the direction of thrillingly uncharted waters.” added The New York Times about the newly released album ‘The Collective’.

You can stream the new album “The Collective” by Kim Gordon from here.

Tickets for Kim Gordon’s Australian tour will be up on sale for the general public on Thursday, 2nd May. Gordon is doing this tour to support her album ‘The Collective’ which was released via Matador and has also received a lot of praise.

Kim Gordon 2024 Australian Tour Dates:

Thursday,18th July at TBA, Sydney

Friday, 19th July at TBA, Sydney

Saturday,20th July at Unsound Adelaide @ Dom Polski Centre

Sunday, 21st July at Open Frame, Brisbane Powerhouse

Wednesday, 24th July at Northcote Theatre, Melbourne

Tickets via Mistlestone

Further Reading

Cradle Of Filth Announce 2024 Australian Tour Dates

Love Letter To A Record: Totally Unicorn On Cypress Hill’s ‘Black Sunday’

Kim Gordon Releases New Album ‘The Collective’ With A Music Video For ‘Psychedelic Orgasm’

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Sonic youth icon kim gordon is touring australia in july.

Legendary musician and multi-disciplinary artist Kim Gordon is bringing The Collective tour to Northcote Theatre on Wednesday, July 24. 

Kim Gordon’s second solo album The Collective (out now on Matador via Remote Control) advances her world building with producer Justin Raisen’s (Lil Yachty, John Cale, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Charli XCX, Yves Tumor) damaged, blown out dub and trap constructions playing the foil to Gordon’s intuitive word collages and hooky mantras, conjuring communication, commercial sublimation and sensory overload.

“On this record, I wanted to express the absolute craziness I feel around me right now,” Kim Gordon said. “This is a moment when nobody really knows what truth is, when facts don’t necessarily sway people, when everyone has their own side, creating a general sense of paranoia. To soothe, to dream, escape with drugs, TV shows, shopping, the internet, everything is easy, smooth, convenient, branded. It made me want to disrupt, to follow something unknown, maybe even to fail.”

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Since co-founding the seminal Sonic Youth in the early 80s, Kim Gordon has remained at the nexus of music, art and (more recently) books and film. To quote Kathleen Hanna: “Kim Gordon is kind of like a shark, in that she needs to keep swimming. She needs to keep making art. It’s just who she is. What Kim’s doing is totally, absolutely normal. What’s not normal is when women or people who are marginalized in other ways have stopped making art for reasons having to do with ageism or sexism. We’re not witnessing a miracle, we’re witnessing what happens when the thing that’s supposed to happen is just allowed to happen.”

Kim Gordon’s debut album No Home Record (2019) received wide-ranging critical acclaim. Her artistic output includes her 2015 memoir Girl In A Band which debuted in the #1 spot on the NY Times Bestseller List; acting in Gus Van Sant’s film Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot; making music as one half of Body/Head alongside Bill Nace; opening multiple solo exhibitions at internationally renowned museums; and hosting a public sale of her iconic wardrobe, with all proceeds going to the Downtown Women’s Centre in Los Angeles.

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Mistletone & Triple R proudly present legendary musician and multi-disciplinary artist Kim Gordon , bringing The Collective  tour to Northcote Theatre. Kim Gordon’s second solo album  The Collective  out now on Matador) advances her world building with producer Justin Raisen (Lil Yachty, John Cale, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Charli XCX, Yves Tumor), with Raisin’s damaged, blown out dub and trap constructions playing the foil to Gordon’s intuitive word collages and hooky mantras, which conjure communication, commercial sublimation and sensory overload. “ On this record, I wanted to express the absolute craziness I feel around me right now ,” says Gordon. “ This is a moment when nobody really knows what truth is, when facts don’t necessarily sway people, when everyone has their own side, creating a general sense of paranoia. To soothe, to dream, escape with drugs, TV shows, shopping, the internet, everything is easy, smooth, convenient, branded. It made me want to disrupt, to follow something unknown, maybe even to fail.” 

Since co-founding the seminal Sonic Youth in the early 80s,  Kim Gordon has remained at the nexus of music, art and (more recently) books and film. To quote Kathleen Hanna : “Kim Gordon is kind of like a shark, in that she needs to keep swimming. She needs to keep making art. It’s just who she is. What Kim’s doing is totally, absolutely normal. What’s not normal is when women or people who are marginalized in other ways have stopped making art for reasons having to do with ageism or sexism. We’re not witnessing a miracle, we’re witnessing what happens when the thing that’s supposed to happen is just allowed to happen. ” 

Kim Gordon ’s debut album  No Home Record (2019) received wide-ranging critical acclaim from The New York Times (" The art star queen of New York cool” ), The Guardian (***** “brilliantly weds noise textures to pop dynamics ”), Sunday Times ( “brutally good - Album Of The Week" ), Vogue (“ immediate, loose, and liberated....as ferocious as she’s ever been” ) and Pitchfork ( "thrilling solo debut lives at the vanguard of sound and performance - Best New Music ”). Her artistic output includes her 2015 memoir Girl In A Band which debuted in the #1 spot on the NY Times Bestseller List; acting in Gus Van Sant’s film Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot; making music as one half of Body/Head alongside Bill Nace; opening multiple solo exhibitions at internationally renowned museums; and hosting a public sale of her iconic wardrobe, with all proceeds going to the Downtown Women’s Centre in Los Angeles.

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The annual winter arts festival in the South Australian capital will also feature 'Fire Gardens', Max Cooper's '3D AV', Dutch pianist Joep Beving and more.

Sydney knows it thanks to Vivid . Melbourne's RISING makes the same point clear. No matter the place, there's nothing like a city lit up with glowing lights, outdoor art installations and projections in winter. Since debuting in 2021 , Illuminate Adelaide has embraced the same idea each year in the City of Churches — and 2024's just-dropped full lineup includes more than 40 works that'll dazzle the city, plus everything from after-dark puppetry in the zoo and a digital garden to Max Cooper and Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon.

And Fire Gardens . Back in April, Illuminate Adelaide revealed that the French art collective Compagnie Carabosse would headline the fest with its acclaimed piece, which will fill Adelaide Botanic Garden more than 7000 fire pots, sculptures and terracotta urns. While it'll be the event's scorching centrepiece from Thursday, July 4–Sunday, July 21, the highlights keep coming on the complete program.

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Much of the brightness in the South Australian at Illuminate Adelaide comes via the City Lights program, which will span those 40-plus free site-specific works over 17 days. The class of 2024 features Renaissance artworks coming alive, interactive lights inspired by the moon's phases, the harp becoming a light-and-colour experience, illuminated street furniture, blue fireflies and more.

The World Has Gone Pear Shaped — a large-scale, six-metre-tall inflatable sculpture that turns earth into a pear to muse on humanity's impact upon the planet — is sure to be standout. So is intangible #form  by Japanese artist Shohei Fujimoto, which uses lasers, strobe lights, other moving lights and haze to create a multi-sensory piece across an array of rooms. You'll be swinging at Spectrum of Happiness , and as you do you'll create a rainbow.

And Tjarutja Dance Theatre Collective Project's Ngarrindjeri Ruwi tells the Ngarrindjeri tale about Kondili, the whale that projects the spark of fire.

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Puppets roaming outside have increasingly become a key component of arts festivals of late — Parrtjima in the Northern Territory just proved this true in April — so of course Illuminate Adelaide has incorporated the trend into its lineup. Cue Universal Kingdom: Prehistoric Nights , a brand-new blend of puppetry and animation from Erth Visual & Physical Inc and A Blanck Canvas that'll take over Adelaide Zoo. A glowing dinosaur skeleton with a giant skull and a ribcage that you can walk through, ancient critters wandering along, an eight-metre animated plesiosaur in the sky: they're just some of its elements.

Similarly immersive and built for folks to mosey around is interactive digital garden EDEN , which splashes its nature paradise across 150 square metres of LED screens — and will be accompanied by The Light Room Bar for bites and beverages.

Bridging the gap between Illuminate Adelaide's art and music bills, Max Cooper's 3D AV gets an Australian-exclusive run. Hindley Street Music Hall will welcome in its audio-visual display, which adapts each performance to its venue so no show is the same as any other.

Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and Dutch pianist Joep Beving are also on the program, the former as part of experimental music fest Unsound Adelaide within the broader fest. Its lineup features The Caretaker doing his first Aussie show, plus Yirinda, 33EMYBW, Eiko Ishibash, ∈Y∋ with C.O.L.O. and more.

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And if that's not enough to enjoy around Adelaide, Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind , one of the Studio Ghibli great's very best films, is getting a free screening; Patch Theatre's family-friendly Superluminal uses lanterns that change colour in your hand, paired with nature sounds; and Fill the Earth combines physical performance and visual art, plus dance and video, on a 3.5-metre round stage.

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Kim Gordon Announces 2024 Australian Tour

By Aastik Bairagi

The former Sonic Youth vocalist,  Kim Gordon  is set to do an Australian Tour, in 2024 supporting her new solo album titled ‘The Collective’. Gordon toured Australia many times before as well. 

Kim would be seen performing in Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Melbourne in July and would also make appearances at Open Frame and Unsound Adelaide. 

This new LP came along with a music video of the main track titled “Psychedelic Orgasm”, the video has been directed by Gordon herself and the filmmaker/musician/producer Vice Cooler. The LP also features certain singles like “I’m A Man” and “BYE BYE”, which were released earlier and starred Coco Gordon Moore. 

“Psychedelic Orgasm” – Kim Gordon

“Gordon will turn 71 next month, and she’s made one of the most daring albums of her career. If you want to get it though, you have to turn it up and submit,” stated Rolling Stones about this album. 

 “What Gordon has proved in this past decade is that her art, her life, her cool…has never been contingent upon anyone else. With time, and through continued art-making, she has righted her ship and pointed it once again in the direction of thrillingly uncharted waters.” added The New York Times about the newly released album ‘The Collective’. 

You can stream the new album “The Collective” by Kim Gordon from here.

Tickets for Kim Gordon’s Australian tour will be up on sale for the general public on Thursday, 2nd May. Gordon is doing this tour to support her album ‘The Collective’ which was released via Matador and has also received a lot of praise. 

Kim Gordon 2024 Australian Tour Dates:

• Thursday,18th July at TBA, Sydney
• Friday, 19th July at TBA, Sydney
• Saturday,20th July at Unsound Adelaide @ Dom Polski Centre
• Sunday, 21st July at Open Frame, Brisbane Powerhouse
• Wednesday, 24th July at Northcote Theatre, Melbourne

Tickets via Mistlestone

Further Reading

Cradle Of Filth Announce 2024 Australian Tour Dates

Love Letter To A Record: Totally Unicorn On Cypress Hill’s ‘Black Sunday’

Kim Gordon Releases New Album ‘The Collective’ With A Music Video For ‘Psychedelic Orgasm’

Aastik Bairagi is a Music Journalist at Music Feeds, where he covers pop music news and the Australian music industry. Before joining Music Feeds, Aastik was a Music & Hip-hop writer at Sportkeeda's SK Pop with work published in other notable publications including Asiana Times. He has also worked as an Assistant Manager for Indie artists and helped them with their PR & marketing strategies.

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Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore announces Australian tour dates

In addition to his previously announced Melbourne Festival performance, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore has announced additional tour dates across Australia.

In addition to his previously announced Melbourne Festival performance, Sonic Youth 's Thurston Moore has announced additional tour dates across Australia.

Moore formed the highly influential Sonic Youth with Lee Ranaldo and Kim Gordon in 1981, with the seminal New York based band going on to release sixteen studio albums, including groundbreaking records such as Daydream Nation and Goo .

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Moore will tour the country this October, performing tracks from his latest album, Demolished Thoughts , and his solo back catalogue. 2011's Demolished Thoughts , an intensely personal record, was produced by longtime friend Beck Hansen .

Thurston Moore Australian Tour Dates :

Friday, 26 October 2012 - Sydney - Hi Fi

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Saturday, 27 October 2012 - Brisbane - Hi Fi

Tickets: handsometours.com & thehifi.com.au / 1300 843 443

Monday, 29 October 2012 - Adelaide - The Gov

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Tuesday, 30 October 2012 - Perth - Rosemount Hotel

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RETURNING TO AUSTRALIA THIS JULY

The Frontier Touring Company is excited to confirm the return to Australia of Sonic Youth. Performing at Byron Bay’s Splendour in the Grass Festival, Sonic Youth will also headline shows in Melbourne and Sydney on their Australian sojourn this July.

Sonic Youth – comprised of Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley – have been at the forefront of alternative rock since their birth in 1981. Celebrating 25 years in existence this year – a milestone only the best can notch up – the band have retained their musical creativity, ingenuity and integrity over the course of their long and successful career.

Reviews from Sonic Youth’s last Australian tour are effervescent in their praise of the group, who have honed their live performances to a fine art throughout the years.

“The NYC rock pioneers now play at anarchic destruction with considerable slickness… Sonic Youth still shred with the very best.” Rolling Stone, September 2004

“For all intents and purposes, Sonic Youth is a rock band. But on Wednesday night they built a set that was more akin to an other-worldly symphony… At the end of 90 minutes, I may have been standing in the same place, but felt like I’d been on a round-the-world trip first class. Overjoyed, and utterly transported.” The Age, June 2004

“Unlike other great bands who burn out, split and try to recharge years down the track, there is a chemistry between the members of Sonic Youth that has been forged for so long that their shows are always drenched in gnarled excellence to the tiniest drip of every last nuance, and this show was no exception.” Inpress Magazine, June 2004

With a more than impressive back catalogue, a finely tuned live show and a new album Rather Ripped slated for release on June 3 through Geffen/Universal Music Australia, not to mention a 25 year anniversary to celebrate, Sonic Youth will be a must-see when they hit Australian stages this July. They will perform one show only in each city so fans hoping to see Sonic Youth live should get their tickets quickly!

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Kim Gordon never fully said 'Bye Bye' to L.A. Why she's back, with a TikTok hit to boot

For Kim Gordon, returning to Los Angeles was once her least likely destiny.

She largely grew up here, and as an aspiring young artist, she’d been desperate to escape SoCal suburbia and the commercial imperative she felt in Los Angeles.

So she left for Manhattan, inspired by the examples of Merce Cunningham and Robert Rauschenberg , of the scene at Andy Warhol’s Factory and the Judson dance collective. In New York, she thrived as a painter, an underground style icon and, most famously, as a member of the influential noise-rock band Sonic Youth.

“I also felt like L.A. was just a town about money,” recalls Gordon, who now lives in the hills of Los Feliz. “At some point, it switched. It was maybe 2008, and somehow L.A. started looking more quaint. And New York became what it has really always been, which is about money.”

Ever since Sonic Youth ended in 2011, along with her marriage to band co-founder Thurston Moore, Gordon has embraced a diverse flurry of projects. She’s put renewed focus on her gallery work and embarked on a series of collaborations, including the experimental guitar duo Body/Head with Bill Nace. She has performed live improvisations at L.A.'s Museum of Contemporary Art, the Louvre in Paris and elsewhere with choreographer Dimitri Chamblas, who interacts with Gordon as she unleashes driving patterns of distortion on guitar.

At age 70, she is two albums into a vibrant solo music career. On March 8, she released “The Collective,” an uncompromising blend of noise and melody, bursts of avant-garde guitar and underground hip-hop. It’s a sound that makes sense in the context of her long career but without sounding like an echo from her past. The album’s 11 songs are defiantly of the moment and a direct result of her return to L.A.

On a recent rainy afternoon, Gordon steps into a coffeehouse on Hillhurst Avenue, looking much as she has since the early ’90s, in a shiny black raincoat, her straight blond hair cropped into a crisp bob. It’s her third interview of the day as she prepares for an upcoming solo tour set to land at L.A.’s Regent Theater on Wednesday.

“It's exciting. It's a little nerve-wracking. I have to memorize all those lyrics,” she says with a laugh.

In Los Angeles, she’s found a key collaborator in producer and co-writer Justin Raisen, who recorded her solo albums at his home studio in Glassell Park, starting with “No Home Record” in 2019. A modernist with a taste for the raw and unpredictable, Raisen has recently worked with artists who stretch from Lil Yachty and Kid Cudi to John Cale and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

“I actually never really intended to make a solo record,” Gordon says with a smile. “I accidentally met Justin Raisen, and he kept bugging me to make a record. After we initially made something together, I was like, 'OK, I like his sensibility.'”

Her first track with Raisen was “Murdered Out,” a 2019 electronic beat of anxious foreboding with Gordon’s voice on edge warning: “Murdered out of my heart/Covered in black matte spray/Will you see when I'm not there?”

“The thing about collaborations is somehow, when they're working, they give you a certain confidence to really reach for ideas and take risks that maybe you wouldn't on your own,” Gordon says.

Her interest in hip-hop stretches back at least to her first time hearing LL Cool J’s debut album, “Radio,” in 1985, and its influence was sometimes felt in her work with Sonic Youth. She was joined by Public Enemy’s Chuck D on the band’s song “Kool Thing,” and in 1993 Sonic Youth, recorded the woozy “I Love You Mary Jane” with Cypress Hill for the hugely influential rap-rock movie soundtrack from “Judgment Night.” She also mingled beats and noise in a 2000 collaboration with Ikue Mori and DJ Olive that Sonic Youth released on its SYR indie label.

The new songs are part of that same lineage.

“The reason it sounds relevant and still her is because she's more open to danger and taking chances than new popular artists,” Raisen says later. “She's willing to take those chances, and she's willing to question.”

The title of “The Collective” is an idea inspired by “The Candy House,” a novel by Jennifer Egan that describes the human impact of an app that allows users to plug into the experiences and memories of anyone who uploads into the collective and a mysterious company called Mandala.

“The catch is you have to upload your own memories and experiences in order to be part of the access that's making yourself vulnerable,” Gordon says. “I thought it was sort of close to where we are now already in technology. The record, to me, feels a little sci-fi in a sense.”

On the cover is a blurry image of a hand holding a phone photographed by musician Twig Harper. It was shot at a Body/Head show last year at the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills. “I guess when you play live with an audience, we do become kind of a collective, whether you like it or not,” she says. “It's part of this experience.”

The album opens with “ Bye Bye,” a track of swirling, ominous tension, as tough beats collide with grinding bursts of her guitar. The effect is gorgeously imperfect as her vocal then rattles off an otherwise mundane packing list, her delivery detached yet quietly obsessed: “Hoodie, toothpaste, brush, foundation/Contact solution, mascara, lip mask, eye mask/Ear plugs, travel shampoo, con-di- tion -er …”

“It was such a compelling beat, and I thought it'd be cool to contrast it with something really banal like a to-do packing list,” she says with a laugh. “I'm limited as a singer, so there are things that I'm aware of that I can do using space. It's weird. When I have the right tone in my earphones — with an effect or something — it gives me a certain confidence. It's like I transform into another person.”

That unconventional vocal style was established during her time in Sonic Youth, where it fit easily amid the band’s dissonant noise rock, even as it occasionally reached MTV and the ’90s commercial airwaves in the form of “Kool Thing” and “Bull in the Heather.” Gordon's spoken vocals are as much avant-garde as they are directly inspired by the speaking-vocal style of the ’60s girl group the Shangri-Las.

But it’s been a new discovery for at least some younger listeners astonished by what they are hearing in “ Bye Bye,” the new album’s first single.

With the song’s January release, Gordon unexpectedly became a TikTok sensation, as both longtime fans and young women discovering her for the first time posted videos of themselves lip-syncing to the song’s shopping list lyrics or just listening. One young woman in headphones posted how she’ll “Never have to make another packing list again,” as she’s seen on-camera shoving items from the lyrics into a backpack.

A red-haired woman with a cartoon mouse tattoo on her bicep posted: “I think Kim Gordon just cured my fear of aging.” Another young listener in Poland just nods her head to the beat, and writes: “Być jak Kim Gordon!” (“Be like Kim Gordon!”)

“As a fan, it's just hilarious and awesome to watch what happened on TikTok,” Raisen says. “Some are new kids who don't know that she was in Sonic Youth, and they're literally just with the song and packing a suitcase in the videos and just being like, 'This [is] hard. I like this.'”

In the music video, Gordon’s daughter, Coco Gordon Moore, is a young woman escaping the comforts of home through a bedroom window and making a run for it. She’s seen again in the video for Gordon’s “I’m a Man,” lounging at home as a young man in a fringed western coat spies on her longingly — maybe less for Coco herself than for her life as a woman. The video mingles grainy 8mm footage with clips from vintage western movies, as Gordon’s vocals take on the persona of confused masculinity:

“I’m not ideal/I'm a person/I won the war, but lost my way/But I can buy as much as anyone/I like to shave my beard just so/manicure my nails/put on a skirt/But at the end of the day/I lost my way/Don’t make me have to hide, or explain, what I am inside.”

The lyrics were partly inspired by the example of conservative politicians, including Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, who has been “complaining like he's a victim of femininity or feminism,” Gordon says. “It’s very whiny and dangerous."

During the 2014 induction of Nirvana into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Gordon was one of four women to join surviving members of the band and fill in for the late Kurt Cobain. She was there with Joan Jett, Annie Clark (a.k.a. St. Vincent) and Lorde. Gordon performed an especially intense, agonized “Aneurysm” that she described in her memoir as “a four-minute-long explosion of grief, where I could finally let myself feel the furious sadness of Kurt’s death and everything else surrounding it.”

“Kurt, he had his girl energy,” Gordon says now of the appropriateness of women stepping in for him. “That was kind of the best thing I liked about it.” The ceremony itself, she adds, was otherwise “kind of a bore. It was just filled with old white guys.”

Although Sonic Youth is no longer active as a recording or touring unit, the band still exists to deal with its history, partly in the form of archival releases of live shows and rarities, curated by drummer Steve Shelley. Gordon is as involved as she wants to be in those releases, but she’s mostly moved on. Even so, she sees her current work as fully linked to her past, a later chapter in an ongoing evolution.

“I see them as a continuation … as far as the guitar sounds and the nontraditional structure of the music being the same as music in New York in the late ’70s, early ’80s, and no wave bands I was influenced by. So in that way I'm still doing the same thing. There's just beats with it and other sounds.”

“No Home Record” was released just months before COVID-19 landed hard in the U.S. and Europe, causing most of the live music industry to shut down for more than a year. Gordon's touring plans for 2020 were canceled, and she and her band abruptly returned home.

She spent some of her unexpected downtime working on her canvases with music or podcasts playing in the background. Gordon has shown in galleries most of her adult life, an identity that easily fit in with her role as a major player on the avant-garde side of rock. Although she’s been ambivalent at times about mixing those roles, Gordon now sees her output in music and painting all as one thing.

“I really tried to keep them separate for a long time because of just the weird thing of being asked to be in shows and that are like, ‘musicians who make art,'’” she says. And yet, her themes and ideas from one discipline will often appear in the other.

In a solo exhibition last year at the 303 Gallery in New York, Gordon included a painting called “The Collective,” a large canvas splashed with layers of pink, blue and red, with iPhone-shaped holes carved out. At the same gallery in 2018, she showed an abstract nude called “Airbnb Silverlake,” presaging her song “Airbnb” from her solo debut.

At the coffeehouse, a young woman at the next table leans in to thank Gordon for mentioning her late father, cinematographer Harris Savides, in Gordon’s 2015 memoir “Girl in a Band.” Savides was on the crew of “Last Days,” director Gus Van Sant’s fictionalized account of Cobain’s final days before his suicide. Gordon had a small but moving cameo as a caring record company exec visiting the despairing rocker named Blake and urging him to leave with her.

“Oh, my God. He was the sweetest,” Gordon says of the respected cinematographer. “Lovely to meet you. He was great, your dad.”

Over the decades, she has collaborated with an impressive collection of artists and musicians, including Yoko Ono, Kim Deal, Mike Kelley and Richard Kern, intermingling genres and disciplines.

“It feels good as a way to bridge the two worlds,” Gordon says of these connections and the forward motion they represent. “I really do feel like this record is like, ‘Well, this is the work I'm doing now.’”

This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times .

CLOSURE IN MOSCOW

Mew on september tour.

MEW’s Visuals Australian Tour , due to land in September and presented by  Bird’s Robe  and  The Music , just got even more awesome. Melbourne’s progressive rock powerhouses with a penchant for creating iconic melodies,  Closure in Moscow , are today joining the tour for all dates.

The tour hits Brisbane ( September 10 at The Triffid ), Sydney ( September 11 at Manning Bar ) and Melbourne ( September 12 at Max Watts ), but for the first time ever, MEW will be venturing to Perth ( September 13 at Capitol ). It will also mark Closure in Moscow ‘s first Perth show in over four years.

In 2017, the band are deep into pre-production for their much anticipated third album and this September they will join prog-pop legends  MEW  for four exclusive shows in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. Closure in Moscow will be premiering new material live for the first time!

MEW  formed as a quartet in late 1994 and following their debut ‘A Triumph for Man’ in 1997, they quickly established cult status. Their commercial break-through came in 2003 with the release of “Frengers” – showcasing their unique and quirky approach to crafting classic pop melodies. The record saw them tour with R.E.M. before continuing with 2005’s ‘And The Glass Handed Kites’ .  Their 2009 opus ‘No More Stories Are Told Today, I’m Sorry They Washed Away // No More Stories, The World is Grey, I’m Tired, Let’s Wash Away’ continued their ever expansive musical backdrop. Their record “+-“ saw them reach the heights of indie-rock stardom, headlining London’s Roundhouse and performing at festivals like  Roskilde ,  Pukkelpop  and  Summer Sonic  and one of the band’s biggest fans, Kiwi songstress  KIMBRA , brought further buzz to the band when she featured on tracks ‘The Night Believer’ and ‘Water Slides.’

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MEW ‘s Visuals Australian Tour, due to land in September and presented by  Bird’s Robe  and  The Music , just got even more awesome. Melbourne’s  progressive ro ck powerhouses with a penchant for creating iconic melodies, Closure in Moscow, are today joining the tour for all dates.

The tour hits Brisbane (September 10 at The Triffid), Sydney (September 11 at Manning Bar) and Melbourne (September 12 at Max Watts), but for the first time ever, MEW will be venturing to Perth (September 13 at Capitol). It will also mark Closure in Moscow’s first Perth show in over four years.

Closure in Moscow ‘s debut record ‘First Temple’ saw them signed to Equal Vision records and tour extensively with the likes of  Coheed and Cambria ,  Dead Letter Circus ,  My Chemical Romance ,  Dance Gavin Dance ,  Fact  &  Emery . Temporarily relocating to Portland, Oregon the band repeatedly toured the US, including the  Vans Warped Tour , before returning home on the back of high rotation on  triple j  radio to headline their own shows. Further Australian, UK, Europe and Japan touring followed before the eventual release of ‘Pink Lemonade’ – a cathartic experimental concept record which has cemented their cult status as unpredictable musical chameleons.

In 2017, the band are deep into pre-production for their much anticipated third album and this September they will join prog-pop legends  MEW  for four exclusive shows in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. Closure in Moscow will be  premiering new material live for the first time!

MEW formed as a quartet in late 1994 and following their debut ‘A Triumph for Man’ in 1997, they quickly established cult status. Their commercial break-through came in 2003 with the release of “Frengers” – showcasing their unique and quirky approach to crafting classic pop melodies. The record saw them tour with R.E.M. before continuing with 2005’s ‘And The Glass Handed Kites’.  Their 2009 opus ‘No More Stories Are Told Today, I’m Sorry They Washed Away // No More Stories, The World is Grey, I’m Tired, Let’s Wash Away’ continued their ever expansive musical backdrop. Their record “+-” saw them reach the heights of indie-rock stardom, headlining London’s Roundhouse and performing at festivals like Roskilde, Pukkelpop and Summer Sonic and one of the band’s biggest fans, Kiwi songstress  KIMBRA , brought further buzz to the band when she featured on tracks ‘The Night Believer’ and ‘Water Slides’.

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