Win Tickets ($70): Kim Gordon: The Collective @ Revolution Hall | w/ Moor Mother, Bassist, Guitarist, Vocalist of Alternative Rock Band Sonic Youth
We are giving away a pair of tickets to Kim Gordon: The Collective @ Revolution Hall on August 31. To win, comment below on this post why you’d like to attend. Winner will be drawn and emailed August 26.
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Kim Gordon: The Collective
August 31, 2024
Doors 7PM, Show 8PM | $35 | All Ages
More info: etix.com
Revolution Hall
1300 SE Stark St., Portland, OR
There was a space in Kim Gordon’s No Home Record. It might not have been a home and it might not have been a record, but I seem to recall there was a space. Boulevards, bedrooms, instruments were played, recorded, the voice and its utterances, straining a way through the rhythms and the chords, threaded in some shared place, we met there, the guitar came too, there fell a peal of cymbals, driving on the music. We listened, we turned our back to the walls, slithered through the city at night. Kim Gordon’s words in our ears, her eyes, she saw, she knew, she remembered, she liked. We were moving somewhere. No home record. Moving.
Now I’m listening to The Collective. And I’m thinking, what has been done to this space, how has she treated it, it’s not here the same way, not quite. I mean, not at all. On this evidence, it splintered, glittered, crashed and burned. It’s dark here. Can I love you with my eyes open? “It’s Dark Inside.” Haunted by synthesised voices bodiless. Planes of projections. Mirrors get your gun and the echo of a well-known tune, comes in liminal, yet never not hanging around, part of the atmosphere, fading in and out, like she says – Grinding at the edges. Grinding at us all, grinding us away. Hurting, scraping. Sediments, layers, of recorded emissions, mined, twisted, refracted. That makes the music. This shimmering, airless geology, agitated, quarried, cries made in data, bounced down underground tunnels, reaching our ears. We recalled it – but not as a memory, more like how you recall a product, when it’s flawed.
She sings “Shelf Warmer” so it sounds like shelf life, it sounds radioactive, inside our relationships, juddering, the beats chattering, edgy, the pain of love in the gift shop, assembled in hollow booms, in scratching claps. Non-reciprocal gift giving, there is a return policy. But – novel idea – A hand and a kiss. How about that. Disruption. I would say that Kim Gordon is thinking about how thinking is, now. Conceptual artists do that, did that. “I Don’t Miss My Mind.” The record opens with a list, but the list is under the title “BYE BYE.” The list says milk thistle, dog sitter…. And much more. She’s leaving. Why is the list anxious? How divisive is mascara? It’s on the list. I am packing, listening to the list. Is it mine, or hers.
She began seeking images from behind her closed eyes. Putting them to music. But I need to keep my eyes open as I walk the streets, with noise canceled by the airbuds rammed in my ears. quiet, aware, quiet, aware, they chant at me. What could be going through Kim’s head as she goes through mine?
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It would be a kool thing to go.
She’s sang before that “love is a ticket to paradise”, but seeing her with a free ticket from PDX Pipeline would be a ticket to an altered reality, and a smile too.
Filled with regret of not ever seeing Sonic Youth live, being able to see Kim perform on her own would be just as awesome! I read her book ‘Girl in a Band’ and would love to experience her artsy, subdued wonder.
Last show I went to was a Tim Kasher house show I think I’m due for some loud live action
i mean, it’s kim gordon!
Kim Gordon as self and me, intrigue and seeking collective gathering unconsciousness and subconsciousness, super and supra consciousness, change the only constant tumultuous silence i’m suspension and suspense Itself. It that they are theirs, we belong everywhere, Kim and I know IT.
The queen!!
Never got to see Sonic Youth. Fortunately Kim is still plowing away and pushing forward . Would loooove to see her perform and keep pushing forward in person.
I’d like to go now that after reading her book and being a Sonic Youth enthusiast for a long time, I’m an even bigger fan of Kim than ever. Plus, Moor Mother on the same bill sets the tone for a very diverse evening of music!
This would be awesome!
Sonic Youth or Kim Gordon, that isn’t a question !
Gonna be one of the best of the year! Cannot believe Kim and MM are on tour together
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Loooove love Kim. Cool thing sitting with a kitty!
I got to meet her during her book signing tour, but have never seen her perform live. Dreaaaammm!
Awesome – I got to meet her during NYC Ghosts and Flowers tour. I didn’t win this contest – I WON Dweezil Zappa tickets earlier this month.. PDX Pipeline rocks – the contests need more entrants to justify more contests… promote the contests to your friends when you enter, so they can have a (relatively good) chance to win (they may take you as their +1 ???)
I would love to see Kim Gordon again.. saw her with Sonic Youth in 2003. She is amazing and I would love to win tickets to this!
Move me, turn me on, baby-o. I’ll be your slave. Give you a shave.
My favorite! Really trying to make the most of my time in Portland! 😍
I’d love to win!! Kim Gordon is a legend