In October 2006, Slim Moon, the label's owner, announced he would be departing Kill Rock Stars to work as an A&R instance at Nathan Brannon, Kurt Braunohler, River Butcher, Cameron Esposito, Emily Heller, Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen, Ian Karmel, Hari Kondabolu, and Amy Miller. In 1997–98, the Small Stars, Sta-Prest, and Rock*A*Teens, among others.Īnother popular band on Kill Rock Stars was Two Ton Boa and Comet Gain spoken word albums by Kathy Acker and Miranda July and reissues of work by earlier punk/post-punk bands such as Kleenex/Liliput, Essential Logic, and Delta 5. Another milestone was the 1997 release of Sleater-Kinney's third LP and first on Kill Rock Stars Dig Me Out, which garnered national press attention in Spin and Rolling Stone. This was also the year that Elliott Smith released his self-titled solo LP on the label. The label continued its tradition of spoken word by releasing their first full-length spoken word LP Big Broad by Juliana Luecking in 1995. Other Kill Rock Stars releases in this genre includes albums by Bratmobile, Huggy Bear, Heavens to Betsy and Excuse 17.
The first major release was a compilation of Olympia-area bands simply titled Kill Rock Stars Stars Kill Rock and Rock Stars Kill would adopt in the same compilation series and exposed Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, Unwound, Nirvana, Mecca Normal, Heavens to Betsy, The Nation of Ulysses, and the Melvins, among others.Īlthough the label's music has never reflected a singular genre or underground music movement, it is for arguably most notable for releasing the score of various riot grrrl bands during the mid-'90s, some of which, particularly Bikini Kill, generated a value deal of press attention. And to increase out spoken word 7-inch records." KRS-101 the label's first release was in fact a split 7-inch spoken-word record with Kathleen Hanna and Slim Moon other "Wordcore" releases followed. Sampson and Moon initially started the title because, in Moon's words, "I just wanted to include out my friends' records because nobody was putting out my friends' records.
The tag has released a family of relieve oneself in different genres, but was originally requested for its commitment to underground punk rock bands and the Olympia area music scene. Kill Rock Stars is an independent record label founded in 1991 by Slim Moon in addition to Tinuviel Sampson, in addition to based in both Olympia, Washington, and Portland, Oregon.
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