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Kill Rock Stars

Index Kill Rock Stars

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. [1]

66 relations: Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, Cameron Esposito, Colin Meloy, Colin Meloy Sings Live!, Comet Gain, Deerhoof, Delta 5, Dig Me Out, Electronic music, Elliott Smith, Essential Logic, Excuse 17, Gossip (band), Hari Kondabolu, Heavens to Betsy, Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen, Huggy Bear (band), Independent record label, Indie rock, Jeff Hanson, Juliana Luecking, Kathleen Hanna, Kathy Acker, Kill Rock Stars (album), Kleenex/LiLiPUT, Kurt Braunohler, List of companies based in Oregon, List of Kill Rock Stars artists, List of record labels, Marnie Stern, Mecca Normal, Melvins, Metalux, Miranda July, Music of Olympia, Need New Body, New Moon (Elliott Smith album), Nirvana (band), Nonesuch Records, Olympia, Washington, Portland, Oregon, Punk rock, Quasi, Redeye Distribution, Rhea Butcher, Riot grrrl, Rock music, Rock Stars Kill, Rolling Stone, ..., Sleater-Kinney, Slim Moon, Spin (magazine), Spoken word, Sta-Prest (band), Stars Kill Rock, The Decemberists, The Mae Shi, The Paper Chase (band), The Robot Ate Me, The Rock*A*Teens, Unwound, W. Kamau Bell, Warner Music Group, Xiu Xiu, 5 Rue Christine. Expand index (16 more) »

Bikini Kill

Bikini Kill was an American punk rock band formed in Olympia, Washington, in October 1990.

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Bratmobile

Bratmobile was an American punk band.

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Cameron Esposito

Cameron Young Esposito (born October 17, 1981) is an American comic, actor, and podcaster, known for her show Take My Wife, as well as her stand-up comedy and podcast Queery.

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Colin Meloy

Colin Patrick Henry Meloy (born October 5, 1974) is an American musician, singer-songwriter and author best known as the frontman of the Portland, Oregon, indie folk rock band The Decemberists.

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Colin Meloy Sings Live!

Colin Meloy Sings Live! is the first live album released by Portland musician Colin Meloy, frontman for the Decemberists.

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Comet Gain

Comet Gain are a British indie pop band, formed by singer-songwriter and guitarist David Feck (aka David Christian/Charlie Damage) in 1992, with musical influences including post-punk and northern soul.

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Deerhoof

Deerhoof is an American independent music group formed in San Francisco in 1994.

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Delta 5

Delta 5 was an English post-punk band from Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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Dig Me Out

Dig Me Out is the third studio album by the American rock band Sleater-Kinney, released on April 8, 1997, by Kill Rock Stars.

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Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments and circuitry-based music technology.

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Elliott Smith

Steven Paul "Elliott" Smith (August 6, 1969 – October 21, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician.

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Essential Logic

Essential Logic is an English post-punk band formed in 1978 by saxophonist Lora Logic after leaving X-Ray Spex.

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Excuse 17

Excuse 17 was a punk rock band from Olympia, Washington, USA, that performed and recorded from 1993 to 1995.

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Gossip (band)

Gossip (previously known as The Gossip) were a three-piece American indie rock band formed in 1999 in Olympia, Washington.

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Hari Kondabolu

Hari Karthikeya Kondabolu (హరి కొండబోలు; born 1982)Beem, p. 38 is an American stand-up comic, actor, filmmaker, and podcast host.

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Heavens to Betsy

Heavens to Betsy was an American indie-punk band formed in Olympia, Washington in 1991.

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Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen

Hot Tub is a weekly variety show hosted by Kurt Braunohler and Kristen Schaal.

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Huggy Bear (band)

Huggy Bear were an English riot grrrl band, formed in 1991 and based in Brighton.

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Independent record label

An independent record label (or indie label) is a record label that operates without the funding of or outside major record labels.

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Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1970s.

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Jeff Hanson

Jeff Hanson (March 3, 1978 – June 5, 2009) was a singer-songwriter, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist - Retrieved 12 April 2014.

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Juliana Luecking

Juliana Luecking is a musician, spoken-word artist and video maker.

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Kathleen Hanna

Kathleen Hanna (born November 12, 1968) is an American singer, musician, artist, feminist activist, pioneer of the feminist punk riot grrrl movement, and punk zine writer.

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Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker (April 18, 1947 – November 30, 1997) was an American experimental novelist, punk poet, playwright, essayist, postmodernist and sex-positive feminist writer.

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Kill Rock Stars (album)

Kill Rock Stars is a 1991 album by various artists and was released on the Kill Rock Stars label.

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Kleenex/LiLiPUT

Kleenex/LiLiPUT (The Complete Recordings) is a compilation album by LiLiPUT, formerly known as "Kleenex".

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Kurt Braunohler

Kurt Braunohler (born February 22, 1976) is an American comedian and host of The K Ohle with Kurt Braunohler podcast on the Nerdist network.

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List of companies based in Oregon

This is a list of companies based in Oregon.

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List of Kill Rock Stars artists

This is an overview of active and former artists signed to Kill Rock Stars.

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List of record labels

For lists of record labels, see.

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Marnie Stern

Marnie Stern is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and guitarist.

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Mecca Normal

Mecca Normal is a two-piece indie rock band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, formed by Jean Smith and David Lester in 1984.

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Melvins

The Melvins are an American rock band that formed in 1983 in Montesano, Washington.

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Metalux

Metalux is a noise band consisting of M.V. Carbon and J. Graf, both members of Bride of No No. They are occasionally joined by Nautical Almanac member Twig Harper.

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Miranda July

Miranda July (born Miranda Jennifer Grossinger; February 15, 1974) is an American film director, screenwriter, singer, actress, author and artist.

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Music of Olympia

The Pacific Northwest town of Olympia, Washington, United States, has been a center of post-hardcore, anti-folk, and other youth-oriented musical genres since at least the late 1970s; before that, Olympia's The Fleetwoods enjoyed several Billboard chart successes between 1959-1963.

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Need New Body

Need New Body is an avant garde music collective band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and beyond, numerous members of which have gone on to become members of the band Man Man.

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New Moon (Elliott Smith album)

New Moon is a posthumous compilation album by American singer-songwriter Elliott Smith, released on May 8, 2007 by Kill Rock Stars.

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Nirvana (band)

Nirvana was an American rock band formed by lead singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1987.

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Nonesuch Records

Nonesuch Records is an American record company and label owned by Warner Music Group, distributed by Warner Bros. Records, and based in New York City.

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Olympia, Washington

Olympia is the capital of the U.S. state of Washington and the county seat of Thurston County. It was incorporated on January 28, 1859. The population was 46,479 as of the 2010 census, making it the 24th largest city in the state. The city borders Lacey to the east and Tumwater to the south. Olympia is a cultural center of the southern Puget Sound region. Olympia is located southwest of Seattle, the largest city in the state of Washington.

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Portland, Oregon

Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and the seat of Multnomah County.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

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Quasi

Quasi is an American indie rock band formed in Portland, Oregon in 1993 by former spouses Sam Coomes (vocals, guitar, rocksichord, various keyboards, bass) and Janet Weiss (vocals and drums).

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Redeye Distribution

Based in Hillsborough, NC, Redeye began in 1996 by focusing on the rich independent music of the southeast and providing the artists that made up the scene with a distribution option to give them access to all retail accounts located in their region.

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Rhea Butcher

Rhea Butcher (born August 12, 1982) is an American stand-up comic, actor, writer, producer, and podcast host.

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Riot grrrl

Riot grrrl is an underground feminist punk movement that began in the early 1990s in Washington state (particularly Olympia) and the greater Pacific Northwest.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Rock Stars Kill

Rock Stars Kill is a compilation of various artists released by Kill Rock Stars on August 1, 1994.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Sleater-Kinney

Sleater-Kinney is an American rock band that formed in Olympia, Washington, in 1994.

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Slim Moon

Slim Moon (b. Matthew Moon on October 15, 1967) is the founder of the independent music label, Kill Rock Stars.

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Spin (magazine)

Spin is an American music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione, Jr. The magazine stopped running in print in 2012 and currently runs as a webzine.

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Spoken word

Spoken word is a performance art that is word based.

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Sta-Prest (band)

Sta-Prest is a queercore band from San Francisco that was active in the 1990s.

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Stars Kill Rock

Stars Kill Rock is a 1993 album by various artists and was released on the Kill Rock Stars label.

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The Decemberists

The Decemberists are an American indie rock band from Portland, Oregon.

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The Mae Shi

The Mae Shi are an experimental rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2002.

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The Paper Chase (band)

The Paper Chase (stylized as "the pAper chAse") was an alternative rock band formed in 1998 by producer/engineer John Congleton in Dallas, Texas, signed to Kill Rock Stars and Southern Records.

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The Robot Ate Me

The Robot Ate Me is an experimental indie rock band formed by Ryland Bouchard in 2002 which has been through many distinct phases incorporating aspects of folk, jazz, psychedelia and avant-garde rock.

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The Rock*A*Teens

The Rock*A*Teens is an indie rock band from Cabbagetown in Atlanta, Georgia who were active during most of the 1990s and reformed in 2014.

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Unwound

Unwound was an American post-hardcore band based in Tumwater/Olympia, Washington.

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W. Kamau Bell

Walter Kamau Bell (born January 26, 1973), known professionally as W. Kamau Bell, is an American stand-up comic and television host.

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Warner Music Group

Warner Music Group (WMG, also referred to as Warner Music or WEA International) is an American multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate headquartered in New York City.

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Xiu Xiu

Xiu Xiu is an American experimental band, formed in 2002 by singer-songwriter Jamie Stewart in San Jose, California.

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5 Rue Christine

5 Rue Christine (also known as 5RC) is a semi-defunct Olympia, Washington based independent record label, formed as a spin-off from the Kill Rock Stars label in 1997.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Rock_Stars

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