Event
Summer Concert: Kim Gordon with The Fiery Furnaces

This summer, live music returns to Storm King Art Center. Across three summer weekends internationally recognized musicians will perform outdoors within Storm King’s iconic landscape.
June 20—Kim Gordon with The Fiery Furnaces
Doors: 5PM
Performance: 7PM
About the Performer:

Kim Gordon’s vision of art and noise has come sharper into focus just as readily as it’s changed—a paradigm of possibility that, four decades on, still feels like a dare. Releasing her debut solo single, “Murdered Out,” in 2016, Gordon launched a now-decade-long collaboration with Justin Raisen, an L.A. producer (Charli XCX, Sky Ferreira, Yves Tumor) with a preternatural grip on her “minimal, trashy” aesthetic. In 2019, Gordon’s debut solo LP No Home Record proved she was attuned as ever to vanguard sounds, mixing avant-rap and footwork into her sonic conceptual art. The Collective, in 2024, was brickheavy and even more daring, led by the tectonic industrial clatter of her packing-list-cum-ragerap banger “BYE BYE” and earning two Grammy nominations. Play Me, her third solo album, processes, in Gordon’s impressionistic way, the collateral damage of the billionaire class: the demolition of democracy, technocratic end-times fascism, the A.I.-fueled chill-vibes flattening of culture.
The Fiery Furnaces is the long-running collaboration between siblings Eleanor and Matthew Friedberger. Renowned for their dense, allusive lyrics, formally inventive compositions, and unpredictable live shows, the band occupies a singular space in the landscape of experimental pop. This fall they reconvene for a limited series of duo performances to revisit their 2004 album, Blueberry Boat.
Photo by Stephanie Powell; Photo by Moni Haworth