Kim Deal and Kim Gordon teamed up to perform Sonic Youth‘s ‘Little Trouble Girl’. Check it out below.
The moment, which marked their first time ever performing live together, took place on the new Netflix talk show Everybody’s Live, hosted by John Mulaney.
Gordon was the first to perform, singing her song ‘Bye Bye’ taken from her 2024 solo album ‘The Collective‘. Deal then took to the stage to play her own track ‘Nobody Loves You More’ – the title track from her debut solo album also released last year.
Then, the pair joined forces to play the Sonic Youth track ‘Little Trouble Girl’, which Deal contributed vocals to on the band’s 1995 LP ‘Washing Machine’. The track is the only time Gordon and Deal have ever collaborated. Though Deal appeared in the song’s music video, she never joined the band to play it live before they broke up in 2011.
Mulaney emphasised to the audience that this was the pair’s “first time performing together, anywhere.” Check out their moody, stripped-back rendition below.
Kim Gordon and Kim Deal perform "Little Trouble Girl" as THE KIMS on Everybody's Live with John Mulaney. #EverybodysLive pic.twitter.com/cMtYEw799G
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In a four-star review of Gordon’s ‘The Collective’, NME wrote: “Here the 70-year-old balances her less than commercial sensibilities with crunchily on-trend production and relatable lyrics about rotten capitalism and fragile masculinity – if these sound like themes she explored during Sonic Youth’s ‘90s heyday, it only goes to show how little has changed.”
“It’s notable, though, how contemporary her distorted art-punk sounds, given the ongoing grunge resurgence and the fact that Olivia Rodrigo’s taking The Breeders on tour this year. Despite her new album’s title, here is an icon who’s spent more than four decades making truly individual art.”
‘The Collective’ was also named as one of the best albums of 2024 so far, described in a nutshell as “a clangorous, cutting experiment with trap beats and abrasive noise”.
Gordon’s second solo album features singles such as ‘Psychedelic Orgasm’, ‘I’m A Man’ and ‘BYE BYE’. It follows Gordon’s 2019 debut solo album ‘No Home Record’.
Meanwhile, Deal’s own solo album ‘Nobody Loves You More’ scored a four-star review from NME, which read: “When Deal first penned ‘Are You Mine’ in 2010, she could hardly have predicted it would appear on a solo record 14 years later. That microcosm is the exact beauty of ‘Nobody Loves You More’, which combines her strengths with her evergreen knack of embracing the moment into a collection that exudes maturity and class.
“Although the large cast of collaborators has few notable surface-level moments, this is an album that celebrates Deal’s individual brilliance – with a little help from the friends she’s made along the way.”
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