September 2010
28 posts
“I spent my late teens and early twenties in the orbit of the Riot Grrrl...”
– - Johanna Fateman from Her Jazz: In the early ’90s, punk girls improvised new forms of feminist agitation a review of Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus
WatchGrass Widow 11 of Diamonds
The Corin Tucker Band Pre-Orders Ship Now
The Corin Tucker Band Live on Koin
Pre-Order The Corin Tucker Band 1,000 Years, Out 10/5 Download Corin Tucker Doubt here
Salutations: KRS Future, Past, Present
Dear Mail Order Freaks, With the end of summer and the beginning of fall we are looking forward to a new year. Did you know that 2011 will be the 20th Anniversary of Kill Rock Stars? While it does seem like it has been 20 years, it is certainly a milestone. I’ve been working here for at least 15 and was there at the beginning. Next month is the 20 Year anniversary of the first Bikini Kill...
Marnie Stern Tour Dates
US + UK TOUR DATES October 2010 1 - Portland, ME @ Venue Music Bar & Grille 2 - Montreal, QC, Canada @ Pop Montreal 3 - Toronto, ON, Canada @ Wrongbar 4 - Ithaca, NY @ The Haunt 5 - Brooklyn, NY @ The Rock Shop - Record Release show 25 - Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie 26 - Washington, DC @ The Red Palace 28 - Atlanta, GA @ 529 29 - Mobile, AL @ Alabama Music Box 30 - Houston, TX @...
The Thermals Never Listen To Me
Thermals West Coast Tour Dates
On October 19th we will be releasing the second single from Personal Life, “Never Listen to Me”. The b-side will be a brand new/unreleased song called “There Is Always a Reason”
Listen here
West Coast Tour: November 2010 15 - San Francisco, CA @ Independent - w/ Night Marchers 16 - Los Angeles, CA @ El Ray - w/ Night Marchers 17 - Phoenix, AZ @ Rhythm Room 18 - Tucson, AZ...
Xiu Xiu Fall Tour
Xiu Xiu are just a few days into their epic Fall Tour: September 2010 26 - New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge - w/ Merzbow, Gentile 28 - Providence, RI @ Club Hell 30 - Ottawa, ON, Canada @ Capital Music Hall - w/ Deerhoof, Father Murphy October 2010 1 - Quebec City, QC, Canada @ Cooperative Meduse 2 - Montreal, QC, Canada @ Ukrainian Federation - Pop Montreal 3 - Toronto, ON, Canada @ Lee’s...
An Intimate Dinner w/ Thao-Musician/Chef?!
The Inaugural ATC Supper Club featuring guest Chef & Musician Thao Nguyen includes dinner, drinks & a private acoustic performance. Thursday, October 14 @ATC’s Studio in the Mission* 6:30pm - 10pm $60 (tax-deductible donation) To reserve your Supper Club seat, please purchase here. Please note that tickets are limited in number to keep the event intimate. Dinner Menu: A hearty yet...
UOA West Coast Tour
Get psyched! The Universal Order of Armageddon reunion is headed out our way: October 2010 20 - Seattle, WA @ Black Lodge 22 - Berkeley, CA @ Gilman Street 23 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Smell 24 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Sex 25 - San Francisco, CA @ Knockout Room 27 - Portland, OR @ Autonomy Hive Warehouse Get the discography CD We still have a few copies the EP on vinyl
Salutations: Happy Record Release Day
Happy Record Release Day to The Thermals If you live in the great northwest, go see a Thermals record release show: September 2010 8 - Bend, OR @ The Tower Theater 9 - Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom - w/ Ted Leo, Past Lives 12 - Portland, OR @ Kennedy School - You Who - kids show Happy Record Release Day to STLS Celebrate with them at Holocene in Portland on 9/8 with Palo Verde, AS/SS, Hot...
New Release: STLS Drumcore 7" & Digital Download,...
KRS536 STLS - Drumcore 7” w/ Digital Download
STLS is two women performing drums just drums. Lisa Schonberg (Explode into Colors, Kickball) and sts (The Haggard, Cadallaca) play standing up, facing each other, on two drum sets. Their sound is huge and their syncopations are rhythmically energizing and entrancing. Their drumming utilizes the tones and textures of the drums to play...
New Release: The Thermals Personal Life, Out Now
KRS519 The Thermals - Personal Life CD/ LP w/ Digital Download Over the course of seven years and four LP’s, The Thermals have tackled a variety of subjects with no small amount of passion and fervor. Religion, politics, death, these are some heavy themes! Yet The Thermals have irreverently run roughshod over these topics with excesses of moxie and gusto, the likes of which the...
Pre-Order The Corin Tucker Band 1,000 Years
KRS520 The Corin Tucker Band - 1,000 Years***PRE-ORDER***
The new record began with the same surprise turn that started Corin Tuckerʼs career back in 1991, ended Sleater-Kinneyʼs 11-year year run in 2006 and inspired the punk-feminist rocker to redefine herself as a stay-at-home mom. It was early 2009, and Tucker was performing at a benefit show in her hometown of Portland, OR airing out a...
Pre-Order Marnie Stern Marnie Stern, Out 10/5
KRS516 Marnie Stern - Marnie Stern***PRE-ORDER***
Marnie Stern the album mirrors Marnie Stern, the woman. Birthed during a challenging period in her life, the self-titled Marnie Stern is a compendium of life stories both bitter and sweet. From ballads to her signature pop guitar-tapping style, Stern and long-time co-conspirator Zach Hill have churned out (for lack of a better word) an...
Tour Dates
The Corin Tucker Band September 2010 10 - Portland, OR @ New Alberta Rose Theater - Live Wire October 2010 7 - Portland, OR @ Aladdin Theater - w/ The Golden Bears 8 - Seattle, WA @ Showbox - w/ The Golden Bears 9 - Eugene, OR @ WOW Hall - w/ The Golden Bears 11 - San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall - w/ The Golden Bears 13 - Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey - w/ The Golden Bears 23 - Hoboken,...
Kathy Foster Says
i love losing all sense of time recording on the 4-track. i love getting into it. inspiration’s striking hot and i can barely maneuver through the obstacle course of cables, pedals, microphones, drums, amps and guitars i’ve created. no time for order! i have to capture these ideas before they fly out of my brain. i play the melody on the guitar or keyboard and think about what...
The Thermals Personal Life is #1
On Paste Magazine’s list of September albums to check out
The Thermals – Personal Life [Kill Rock Stars, Sept. 7] Paste review (8.8/10) excerpt: “The Portland trio is grappling with heady and life-altering stuff here—namely, falling in love. It’s a sea change, in terms of the band’s sound; their previous albums’ hyper-political, sturm und drang punk fury is almost entirely gone, ...
Listen to The new Thermals album on NPR.org
Listen to The Thermals Personal Life on NPR.org
Personal Life comes out on September 7th, Pre-Orders are shipping now!
Portland Office Looking for Interns
From The Kill Rock Stars blog
hey krs blog readers, we’re looking for an intern or two to help out around the portland office two days a week with mailings, calling record stores, filing, data entry, and other stuff starting september 2010. if you are interested email ben at killrockstars dot com. please tell us a little about yourself, your favorite krs bands (or your least ...
