Indie rock’s most iconic couple separate after 27 years of marriage.
According to SPIN, after 27 years of marriage (30 total as a couple), Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon have officially separated. Little more information is known as the couple have requested privacy on the matter.
The separation was officially announced via Matador Records, in a statement that read, “Musicians Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, married in 1984, are announcing they have separated. Sonic Youth, with both Kim and Thurston involved, will proceed with its South American tour dates in November. Plans beyond that tour are uncertain.”
This is devastating news for the music world, and for the idea of true love in general, as Moore and Gordon for decades were a shining example of how the rock & roll couple works. They have one daughter, Coco Hayley Gordon Moore, born in 1994.
In addition to the November Sonic Youth dates, Moore will also be playing solo shows in November and December.
As I desperately try to awake from this bad dream, please enjoy the video for “Sacred Trickster,” from Sonic Youth’s most recent, but hopefully not final (shudder) album, “The Eternal.”
