KILL ROCK STARS RECORDS
Kill Rock Stars is an independent record label founded in 1991 by Slim Moon and Tinuviel Sampson, and based in both Olympia, Washington and Portland, Oregon. The label has released a variety of work in different genres, making it difficult to pigeonhole as having any one artistic mission. Overall, though, the political sensibilities of the label can be said to be left-wing, feminist, and anti-war; and the label initially showed a commitment towards underground punk bands and to representing artists in the Olympia area music scene. (More from Wikipedia)
Sleater-Kinney released a second album on Chainsaw Records, Call the Doctor which brought the band greater renown; this is probably around the time that I read the article on the band in Indianapolis. Shortly thereafter, Sleater-Kinney was signed by a record company headquartered in the heart of riot grrrl territory in Olympia, WA having the delightful name of Kill Rock Stars. With Janet Weiss as the new drummer (originally in Quasi), each of their four albums for this label seemed better than the last, culminating in One Beat (2002).
(January 2014)
