Free Kitten is an American

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band formed by Sonic Youth's

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and

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Julia Cafritz Julia Cafritz (born May 5, 1965) is an American musician and guitarist who was a member of Pussy Galore and Free Kitten. She is regarded as a cult figure from the New York City noise music scene of the 1990s. Early life Cafritz was born in W ...

. Originally performing as Kitten, they changed their name after receiving threats of legal action by a heavy metal singer performing under the same name. Boredoms member

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took up drums, and Pavement's

Mark Ibold Mark Alan Ibold (born October 17, 1962) is an American musician. He is best known as the bass guitarist of the indie rock band Pavement, with whom he recorded four studio albums. Following Pavement's initial break-up in 1999, Ibold joined the a ...

joined later on as bassist. They have released a handful of

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s and

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, mainly on label

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, including a remix 12-inch featuring

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. They toured on 1993's Lollapalooza. A studio album, 2008's '' Inherit'', on

Thurston Moore Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958) is an American musician best known as a member of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label. Mo ...

Ecstatic Peace! Ecstatic Peace! is a record label based in Easthampton, Massachusetts, founded in 1981 by American musician Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth. The label name is borrowed from a line in Tom Wolfe's 1968 nonfiction novel '' The Electric Kool-Aid Aci ...

label, is the group's most recently available.

Discography

Studio albums

Compilation albums

EPs

Singles

References

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* All-female bands Alternative rock groups from New York (state) Kill Rock Stars artists Musical groups established in 1992 Musical groups disestablished in 1997 Musical groups reestablished in 2007 Riot grrrl bands Sympathy for the Record Industry artists Ecstatic Peace! artists {{US-rock-band-stub