Post your questions for Kim Gordon

The Sonic Youth musician will answer your queries ahead of the release of her third solo album Play Me She’s one of the icons of American alt-rock, and a heroic example of someone who maintains perfect balance as they put one foot in the mainstream and the other in the underground. After decades with Sonic Youth, Kim Gordon is continuing her remarkable solo career – and will be answering your questions. Born in New York and raised in LA, it was back in New York where she immersed herself in the early 80s no wave scene and met her Sonic Youth bandmates Thurston Moore – later her husband – and Lee Ranaldo, adding drummer Steve Shelley a few years later. Together they forged a new and distinct kind of rock music, where noise had sculptural heft but melody and harmony were wrapped around it, resulting in 15 studio albums including towering classics such as Daydream Nation and Dirty. After Gordon and Moore’s relationship ended in 2011, the band went on an indefinite hiatus. Gordon struck out into a brilliant new noise duo with Bill Nace, Body/Head, before releasing her debut solo album No Home Record in 2019. This, along with its follow-up The Collective, showed how open and innovative