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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Filmography

• 2026Avec Kim — Kim, Original Music Composer
• 2025Bad Painter — Interviewer
• 2025Sonic Youth: Live in 1991
• 2025The Chronology of Water — Photographer
• 2024Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story
• 202312341 Branford St. Sun Valley — Self, Director
• 2022Picture Window — Kim Gordon, Director
• 2020Los Angeles June 6 — Self, Director
• 2019Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
• 2019Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond
• 2018Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot — Corky
• Party Legends
• 2015The Nightmare — Teacher
• 2013I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney
• 2013Une Danse Des Bouffons — Maria Martins
• 2012The Hardcore Collection — (archive footage)
• Portlandia — Kim Gordon
• 2011Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
• 2011Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival
• 2010Lights Out — Music
• 2010Sonic Youth & The Black Keys: Live at Austin City Limits 2011
• 2009Massage the History — Music
• 2007Boarding Gate — Kay
• Gossip Girl — Kim Gordon
• 2007I'm Not There — Carla Hendricks
• 2006Cut Shorts
• 2006Her Noise - The Making Of
• 2005Last Days — Record Executive
• 2005Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
• 2004Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
• 2004The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things — Original Music Composer
• 2003Me Myself and the Universe — Music
• 2003Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
• 2003Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage — Performer
• 2003The Work of Director Spike Jonze — Director
• 2002Demonlover — Original Music Composer
• 2001Things Behind the Sun — Original Music Composer
• Gilmore Girls — Cool Mom Troubadour
• 2000Sonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000
• 1998Sonic Youth: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim
• 1997Teenie Weenie Boppie — Director
• 1996Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
• 1995Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love
• 1995X-Girl — interviewer, Executive Producer
• 1993Changing Fashions
• 1993Grunge Pedal
• 1993Sonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa
• Later... with Jools Holland
• 1991Goo — Self, Writer, Music
• 1991Notebook
• 1991Skeeno H.C. Rules
• 1989Weatherman '69 — Bernadine Dohrn
• 1988Sonic Youth: 930 Club
• 1987Made in U.S.A. — Original Music Composer
• 1986Sonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis
• 1986Sublapse Video Mag 1
• 1985Making the Nature Scene — Director
• 1985Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree
• 1985Submit to Me
• 1984Rock My Religion — Music, Idea
• 1963Kiss — Music
• Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985
• Sonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996

Appearances as themselves (43)

• 2026Marc by Sofia — Self
• 2026The Best Summer — Self
• Everybody's Live with John Mulaney — Self - Musical Guest
• 2025FireAid Benefit Concert — Self
• 2025Pavements — Self (uncredited)
• Women Who Rock — Self
• 2021Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr. — herself
• 2019SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions — Self
• 2017Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution — Self
• 2016Ed Ruscha: Buildings and Words — Self
• 2015Girls in Bands at the BBC — Self (archive footage)
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self - Musical Guest
• 2013The Punk Singer — Self
• 2012A Proposal for A Dance — Self
• 2010Rappin' With The Rickster — Self
• 2009From The Basement — Self - Sonic Youth
• 2009From the Basement — Self - Sonic Youth
• Late Night with Jimmy Fallon — Self - Musical Guest
• 2008New York Rock at the BBC — Self - Sonic Youth
• 2007365 Day Project — Self
• 2007Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East — Herself
• 2007Welcome to My Castle! — Self
• 2006Noise — Self
• 2004(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Musical Guest
• 2001Kiss My Grits: The Herstory of Women in Punk and Hard Rock — Self
• 2000Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth — Self
• 1998Free Tibet — Self - Sonic Youth
• 1996Tibetan Freedom Concert — Self
• 1995Sonic Youth: Blood on the Beach — Self
• 1995The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special — Self
• 1994Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos — Self
• 1994Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!! — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1994No Alternative Girls — Herself
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Musical Guest
• Late Show with David Letterman — Self - Musical Guest
• 19921991: The Year Punk Broke — Self
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno — Self - Musical Guest
• 1988Lou Believers — Herself
• 1988Put More Blood Into the Music — Herself
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Cameo (uncredited)
• The Grammys — Self
• Sonic Youth: Full Set From The Basement — Self