Until last night (March 19), Kim Gordon had never performed a Sonic Youth song in solo performance — at least according to Setlist.fm. That changed when she was joined by the Breeders’ Kim Deal for a rendition of “Little Trouble Girl” as part of John Mulaney’s Netflix talk show Everybody’s Live. Deal sang backup on the original studio version from Sonic Youth’s 1995 album Washing Machine.
Netflix has so far only released a very brief clip of the performance, but the entire episode can be streamed online.
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As SPIN wrote in 2019, “Little Trouble Girl” is “a song like no other in the Sonic Youth catalog” that casts Deal “as a one-woman girl group, inventing an alternate history of Spector-era pop in which the women get to be as shadowy, complex and vaguely dangerous as the men. The verses return the song to more familiar SY territory, with Gordon delivering an icy monologue that both fleshes out the narrative and offers an ocean of mysterious subtext. ‘Remember, mother? We were close,’ she keeps repeating. ‘Very, very close.’ With Deal’s eerie, Lynchian sha-la-las echoing behind Gordon, it’s clear that there’s something sinister about that closeness.”
Earlier in the episode, Gordon performed “BYE BYE” from her Grammy-nominated 2024 album The Collective, while Deal played the title song from her 2024 solo debut, Nobody Loves You More.
Gordon can be seen on tour starting April 24 in Los Angeles, while Deal is in the midst of a North American solo run through March 30 in San Diego.
Kim Gordon and Kim Deal perform “Little Trouble Girl” as THE KIMS on Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney. #EverybodysLive pic.twitter.com/cMtYEw799G
— Netflix (@netflix) March 20, 2025
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