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VIDEO: Kim Gordon in Conversation with Carrie Brownstein

Kim Gordon, rock legend and co-founder of Sonic Youth, just released her first memoir, Girl in a Band. (Read our review here.) Carrie Brownstein, co-founder of Sleater-Kinney and co-star of Portlandia, also has a memoir coming out this year. You can watch these two rockers-turned-memoirists in conversation in the above video filmed at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.

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