【内容简介】

　　出现于后朋克时期纽约的“音速青年”，是美国音乐史上最具影响力的乐队之一，同样著名的，还有女主唱金·戈登与同为乐队主创的瑟斯顿·摩尔的婚姻，他们首次缔造了男女双方在乐队中的平等创作关系，成为诸多乐迷的理想。

　　2011年，两人在二十七年的婚姻之后分手，并由此导致了“音速青年”的解散，公众对此震惊异常。戈登写下这本回忆录，检视自己之前所走过的路途。

　　戈登追溯了自己在垮掉派氛围的加州所度过的童年。也记述了二十世纪末的纽约景象。那座曾属于安迪·沃霍尔、帕蒂史密斯和卢·里德的城市已经消亡，金钱大量涌入艺术领域，为“音速青年”传奇的登台埋下伏笔。未来，这支乐队又会成为“涅槃”等乐队爆炸性成功的先声。

　　最后，戈登更以专辑为线索，逐一向启发过她的作家、音乐家和艺术家致敬，为乐迷们提供了无价的细节。

　　全书充满了上世纪八九十年代所特有的声光颗粒，记录下一个“乐队女孩”如何在男性乐手的“能量顶点”之下成长为一个女人的过程，以及当世上并无前路可寻时，如何构造出一个属于自己的、充满创造力的人生。

　　作者简介

　　作者：金·戈登，生于1953年，美国实验后朋克乐队“音速青年”创始成员兼主唱和贝斯手，被视作女权主义力量的灯塔，有“后朋克女神”之称。

　　出现于纽约的“音速青年”，是史上最具影响力的乐队之一，他们的传奇持续影响着独立摇滚和美国流行文化。戈登多年来在舞台上以神秘而疏离的气质著称，毫无女孩气，也不倒向男人气，与这支男性主导的纽约噪音乐队共同奋斗三十余年，更将自己的活动扩展至时尚、表演和艺术等领域，成为女性力量存在的鲜活证明。

　　2011年“音速青年”解散后，戈登组建了乐队“身体/头脑”（Body/Head）。2014年，出版艺术评论文集《这是我的身体吗？》（Is It My Body?），并在洛杉矶高古轩画廊（Gagosian Gallery)、纽约白色廊柱画廊（White Columns）、纽约303画廊（303 Gallery）举行个人艺术展。

　　戈登目前生活在马萨诸塞州北安普顿、纽约和洛杉矶。

　　译者：董楠，自由译者，翻译了诸多摇滚乐书籍和传记，包括：《此地无人生还》（No One Here Gets Out Alive，杰里·霍普金斯[Jerry Hopkins]、丹尼·萨格曼[Danny Sugerman]著），《滚吧，生活》（Life，基思•理查兹[Keith Richards]、詹姆斯•福克斯[James Fox]），《老美国志异》，（The Old,Weird America，格雷尔·马库斯[Greil Marcus]著），《披头士》（The Beatles，鲍勃·施皮茨[Bob Spitz]著），《穿越火焰》（Pass Thru Fire，卢•里德[Lou Reed]著），《聆听大门》（The Doors:A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years，格雷尔·马库斯著），《大卫·鲍伊》（David Bowie:A Life in Pictures，克里斯·韦尔奇[Chris Welch]著）等。

【 Content Introduction 】

Sonic Youth, which appeared in post-punk New York, is one of the most influential bands in the history of American music, as well as the marriage of female lead singer Kim Gordon and fellow band leader Thurston Moore, who for the first time created an equal creative relationship between men and women in the band, becoming the ideal of many music fans.

The public was shocked when the pair split in 2011 after 27 years of marriage, leading to the dissolution of Sonic Youth. Gordon wrote this memoir to examine the journey he had traveled before.

Gordon traces his childhood in Beatnik California. It's also about New York at the end of the 20th century. The city that once belonged to Andy Warhol, Patti Smith and Lou Reed is dead, and money is pouring into the arts, setting the stage for the Sonic Youth legend. In the future, the band would become a precursor to the explosive success of bands such as Nirvana.

Finally, Gordon uses the album as a cue to pay tribute to the writers, musicians and artists who inspired her, providing fans with priceless details.

The book is full of the unique sound and light particles of the 1980s and 1990s, recording how a "band girl" grows into a woman under the "energy peak" of male musicians, and how to construct a creative life of her own when there is no other way out in the world.

About the author

Author: Kim Gordon, born in 1953, is a founding member, lead singer and bassist of the American experimental post-punk band Sonic Youth. She is regarded as a beacon of feminist power and is known as the "Goddess of post-punk".

Sonic Youth, who emerged in New York City, are one of the most influential bands of all time, and their legacy continues to influence indie rock and American pop culture. Known for her mysterious and distant demeanor on stage over the years, not girly, not masculine, Gordon has worked with the male-dominated New York noise band for more than three decades, and has expanded her activities into fashion, performance and art, becoming a living testament to the existence of female power.

After Sonic Youth disbanded in 2011, Gordon formed the band Body/Head. In 2014, he published a collection of art criticism, Is This My Body? (Is It My Body?) He has held solo exhibitions at Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles, White Columns in New York, and 303 Gallery in New York.

Gordon currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, New York, and Los Angeles.

Translator: Dong Nan is a freelance translator who has translated many rock books and biographies, including: "No One Here Gets Out Alive" (Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman), "Life, Keith Richards and James Fox, "The Old,Weird America" (by Greil Marcus), "The Beatles," Bob Spitz, "Pass Thru Fire" (Lou Reed), "The Doors:A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years," Grell Marcus), "David Bowie:A Life in Pictures" (Chris Welch) and more.