I nabbed Kathy and Hutch of The Thermals from back stage at the Doug Fir last night [12/5/08] and dragged them to an underground garage for a video interview. I had a list of four questions, two of which were pitched by Mark Lewman the Creative Director for Nemo. Lew’s questions were - “What is [...]
My favorite local kick-ass, proto-punk outfit The Thermals, have changed teams moving from Seattle’s Sub Pop to Portland’s Kill Rock Stars. There’s a new album underway that should see the light of day around April 2009. After three albums on Sub Pop, ‘More Parts Per Million,’ Fuckin’ A’ and ‘The Body, The Blood, The Machine,’ [...]
This just in from Kill Rock Stars:
Say what you will about Deerhoof, but they know how to write a beautiful song. And “Offend Maggie” is all the more beautiful for the fact that it seems to come out of nowhere. For all its sparkling musicianship, it sounds casually tossed off like it was nothing at [...]
Music fills my day but sometimes things pass me by. I heard about Thao Nguyen last year from Portia and Maggie at her label Kill Rock Stars, somehow I never got around to listening. And then in one of those 6ยบ of separation moments, Ian C Rogers posts a Thao song on his blog and [...]
Horsefeathers perform live at Portia and Slim Moon’s BBQ from Dave Allen on Vimeo.
I spent Sunday afternoon out in Washington state, near Battle Ground actually. Portia from Kill Rock Stars and her husband Slim held a BBQ at their house and invited many people who had at least a tenuous connection to the indie music [...]