Kill Rock Stars Records
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| Founded | 1991 |
| Founder |
Slim Moon Tinuviel Sampson |
| Distributor(s) | Redeye Distribution |
| Genre | Various |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Location | Portland, Oregon |
| Official website | killrockstars.com |
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 unified artistic mission or sound. However, the label initially showed a commitment towards underground punk bands and to representing artists in the Olympia area music scene. Overall, the political sensibilities of the label can be said to be left-wing, feminist, and anti-war.
Sampson and Moon initially started the label because, in Moon's words, "I just wanted to put out my friends’ records because nobody was putting out my friends’ records. And to put out spoken word 7" records." KRS-101 (the label's first release) was in fact a split 7" spoken-word record with Kathleen Hanna and Slim Moon; other "Wordcore" releases followed. The first major release was a compilation of Olympia-area bands simply titled Kill Rock Stars (Stars Kill Rock and Rock Stars Kill would follow in the same compilation series) and featured Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, Unwound, Nirvana, The Melvins, as well as singer-songwriter Elliott Smith.
Although the label's music has never reflected a singular genre or underground music movement, it is arguably most notable for releasing the work of various riot grrrl bands during the mid-'90s, some of which, especially Bikini Kill, generated a good deal of press attention. Other Kill Rock Stars releases in this genre includes albums by Bratmobile, Huggy Bear, Heavens to Betsy and Excuse 17.
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