Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon is set to release her memoir, Girl in a Band, on February 24th and to help support it she will be hitting the road for an 11-date book tour.
Each stop on the tour will see the storied bassist doing a Q&A session with a different music or literary figure including the likes of Sleater-Kinney guitarist/Portlandia star Carrie Brownstein, Superchunk drummer Jon Wurster, singer-songwriter Aimee Mann and Sub Pop co-founder Bruce Pavitt. The Chicago stop will be part of the Chicago Humanities Festival’s “Winter 2015” lineup and will feature a performance from Girls Rock! Chicago.
Girl in a Band looks back at her life as a musician and artist, the rise of the band, and her personal and artistic relationship with former husband/bandmate Thurston Moore.
See the tour dates below.
Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band Book Tour:
February 23 – Brooklyn, NY @ Greenlight Books/BAM Cinematek (with Margaret Bodde)
February 24 – New York, NY @ The Strand (with Elissa Schappell)
February 25 – Chapel Hill, NC @ Flyleaf/Cat’s Cradle (with Jon Wurster)
February 26 – Chicago, IL @ Chicago Humanities Festival (with Alison Cuddy)
February 27 – Austin, TX @ BookPeople (with Terry Lickona)
March 1 – Albuquerque, NM @ Bookworks/University of New Mexico (with Samantha Carillo)
March 2 – Seattle, WA @ Elliott Bay Books/The Neptune (with Bruce Pavitt)
March 3 – Portland, OR @ Powell’s Books (with Jon Raymond)
March 4 – San Francisco, CA @ JCC San Francisco (with Carrie Brownstein)
March 5 – Santa Monica, CA @ Live Talks LA (with Aimee Mann)
March 7 – Los Angeles, CA @ MOCAtv (Bennett Simpson)
