# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mark-ibold
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:11:00.659Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mark-ibold"
name: "Mark Ibold"
slug: "mark-ibold"
description: "Mark Alan Ibold 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 alternative rock band Sonic Youth from 2006 until their end in 2011."
tagline: "Bass guitarist and indie rock musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sonic_Youth_2009_(3721264851).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1962-10-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.89
  momentum:             7.524671052631579
  historical:           7.820098666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1344036/"
    handle:    "nm1344036"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF"
    title: "مارك ايبولد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ibold"
    title: "Mark Ibold"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ibold"
    title: "Mark Ibold"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ibold"
    title: "Mark Ibold"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ibold"
    title: "Mark Ibold"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ibold"
    title: "Mark Ibold"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ibold"
    title: "Mark Ibold"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/003db9eb-2a01-4ece-a5e0-87000aa502d7"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2233826"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump