Today is Kim Gordon’s birthday - founder member of Sonic Youth and Free Kitten, producer, actress, designer, director, all round one of the coolest people in rock’n’roll. Here’s a couple of clips in celebration -  any excuse to post about Kim or Sonic Youth on DM is worth it.

Kim Gordon reads the Riot Grrrl Manifesto
 

 
Kim Gordon talks to Style.com about her label X-Girl, shopping in New York and working with Chloe Sevigny.
 

 
This clip is simply titled “Kim Gordon”, though I suspect form the Pussy Galore mural it’s a Free Kitten improv?
 

 
Sonic Youth - “What A Waste” (live in Prague, 2007)
 

 
Kim Gordon Dancing
 

 
Previously on DM:
Unedited interview with Kim Gordon from 1988
More late 80s Sonic youth interviews
‘1991: The Year Punk Broke” Classic alt-rock documentary