The veteran black metal wanderers Wolves In The Throne Room formed in Olympia, a beautiful little college town that also happens to be Washington’s state capital. Olympia has a lot of thrift shops and seafood restaurants. It’s a bougie place with hippie signifiers and a vague sense of encroaching methiness. K Records and Kill...

Miley Cyrus, queen of covers. Since the pandemic, the pop star has taken her cover game to the next level, stepping up to cover the likes of Queen and Bikini Kill and Hole and many more. Just yesterday, we heard Cyrus cover Metallica for their upcoming Blacklist covers collection.

This year, the venerated Pacific Northwest indie label Kill Rock Stars turns 30, and the label has been celebrating that anniversary with a series called Stars Rock Kill (Rock Stars). A whole lot of people have been covering a whole lot of songs from the KRS catalog. That list includes Mike Watt doing Bikini Kill, Califone doing Mecca Normal, an...

After Bikini Kill reunited for their first shows in 22 years and played a limited run of shows in New York, Los Angeles, London, and a handful of other locations in 2019, they announced an extensive reunion tour that was planned for 2020. Those shows, naturally, did not occur. They rescheduled all the dates for 2021 and now they’ve onc...

The venerable Battle Ground, Washington indie record label Kill Rock Stars is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a new compilation this year. Titled Stars Rock Kill (Rock Stars) — a callback to the comps that launched the label three decades ago — it features an impressive assembly of artists covering tracks from the KRS c...