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Episode 1: "Happy Birthday, Jeanette Turner" "Dreams" by Gabrielle: Jeanette wakes up on her birthday in 1993. This content is imported from YouTube. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. "I Wanna Be Down" by Brandy: Jeanette wakes up on her birthday in 1994. This content is imported from YouTube. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. "Take Five" by Northside: Jeanette, Mallory, and Vince go to the mall in 1993.

Califone Add Shimmer to Mecca Normal's "Family Swan" for Kill Rock Stars' 30th Anniversary (KEXP Premiere) photo by Federico Pedrotti Creation, Factory, I.R.S., Slash. Just a few of the more notable names of an endless number of independent record labels that never made it past two decades before either shuttering its doors or being acquired by a major in order to keep the lights on. Which is why it’s worth celebrating Kill Rock Stars’ incredible feat of remaining not just independent but relevant and vital for 30 years this year. Launched in Olympia in 1991 by Slim Moon and Tinuviel Samp...

by Charlie Smith on April 1st, 2021 at 8:20 PM 1 of 1 2 of 1 A former manager of the legendary Vancouver punk band D.O.A. has died. The news of Ken Lester's passing came in a post by musician and painter Jean Smith on her Facebook page. Smith is a member of the Vancouver band Mecca Normal with Lester's brother David. D.O.A. hired Lester in 1979 after the band went on its first North American tour. He parted ways with the band in 1988, according to frontman Joe Keithley's 2003 memoir, I, Shithead: A Life in Punk. In 2015, Keithley told Straight contributor Allan MacInnis that it was Les...