Julia Cafritz is a musician who has performed with Pussy Galore

Pussy Galore (band)

Pussy Galore was an American garage rock band that formed in Washington, D.C. in 1985. They had a constantly fluid line-up until their demise in 1990. Like many garage rock outfits, they were dogged by substance abuse problems...

 and Free Kitten

Free Kitten

Free Kitten is a musical collaboration between Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and Pussy Galore's Julie Cafritz. Originally performing under the name Kitten, they changed their name, after receiving threats of legal action by a heavy metal singer performing under that name...

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Biography

In 1985, guitarist Julia Cafritz joined fellow Brown University drop out, Jon Spencer, to form the punk noise

Noise music

Noise music is a term used to describe varieties of avant-garde music and sound art that may use elements such as cacophony, dissonance, atonality, noise, indeterminacy, and repetition in their realization. Noise music can feature distortion, various types of acoustically or electronically...

 band Pussy Galore

Pussy Galore (band)

Pussy Galore was an American garage rock band that formed in Washington, D.C. in 1985. They had a constantly fluid line-up until their demise in 1990. Like many garage rock outfits, they were dogged by substance abuse problems...

. In May 1986 they moved to NYC. In 1989, Cafritz left Pussy Galore and formed the short-lived all-group girl STP

STP

- Commercial :* Straight Through Processing, banking term where a financial transaction is automatically completed without manual intervention* Segment, Target and Position, a marketing acronym...

 who released one single and toured with Nirvana

Nirvana (band)

Nirvana was an American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987...

 and Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from New York City, formed in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Steve Shelley , and Mark Ibold .In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the No Wave art and music scene in New York City...

. She joined fellow CBGBs Record Canteen clerk Ned Hayden's group The Action Swingers. In 1992, she formed Free Kitten

Free Kitten

Free Kitten is a musical collaboration between Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and Pussy Galore's Julie Cafritz. Originally performing under the name Kitten, they changed their name, after receiving threats of legal action by a heavy metal singer performing under that name...

, a musical collaboration with Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon

Kim Gordon

Kim Althea Gordon is an American musician, vocalist, artist, record producer, video director and actress. She has sung and played bass and guitar in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth, and in Free Kitten with Julia Cafritz...

, drummer Yoshimi

Yoshimi P-We

Yoshimi P-We, is a Japanese musician best known for her role as the longest consistent drummer in the Japanese rock band Boredoms.Yoshimi also plays trumpet, guitar, and keyboard, and sings....

 from the Boredoms and Pavement

Pavement (band)

Pavement is an American alternative rock band that formed in Stockton, California in 1989. In their career, they achieved a significant cult following, and they were called the best band of the 1990s by prominent music critics Robert Christgau and Stephen Thomas Erlewine...

 bassist, Mark Ibold

Mark Ibold

Mark Ibold is a New York-based bass guitarist, member of the indie band Pavement from 1992 to 1999, and again as of their 2010 reunion. He is also currently in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth....

. They released records and toured on and off through 1997. In 2008, Cafritz, Gordon and Yoshimi recorded and released Inherit on Ecstatic Peace

Ecstatic Peace

Ecstatic Peace! is a record label based in Easthampton, Massachusetts, founded in 1981 by Sonic Youth member Thurston Moore. The premiere release was a split cassette featuring spoken word performances from Michael Gira of Swans and Lydia Lunch...

 Records after a ten year hiatus.

Free Kitten discography

Albums:

• Unboxed 1994 Wiiija
• Nice Ass 1995 Kill Rock Stars
• Sentimental Education 1997 Kill Rock Stars
• Inherit 2008 Ecstatic Peace

EPs

• Call Now 1992 Ecstatic Peace
• Punks Suing Punks 1996 Kill Rock Stars

Singles

• 1992 "Yoshimi Vs. Mascis" split Time Bomb
• 1993 "Oh Bondage Up Yours!" Sympathy for the Record Industry
• 1993 "Lick!" In The Red
• 1993 "Special Groupie" SOS
• 1994 "Sex Boy" Radiation
• 1994 "Harvest Spoon" Wiiija
• 1997 "Chinatown Express" Kill Rock Stars
• 2008 "Seasick" Ecstatic Peace

External links

Articles and reviews

• Q&A with the Village Voice (9/2/2008)
• http://pitchfork.com/features/guest-lists/6860-free-kitten/ pitchfork: Guest Lists: Free Kitten