Monday, February 03, 2014

20 Years of Kill Rock Stars 1991 - 2011

A sampler that came with something that I bought last year - plenty of the riot grrl and successors (I'd be tempted to put Marnie Stern, represented by "Transparency is the New Mystery" in that latter category, for example) type tunes that I associate with the label. Best, along with those I already knew (the Stern, Comet Gain's fantastic "Why I Try to Look So Bad", Thao's "Bag of Hammers", the Gossip's "Standing in the Way of Control"): the Thermals' "Now We Can See", Mary Timony Band's "Sharpshooter", the Corin Tucker Band's "Doubt" and, more generally, the never unwelcome reminder of how nice 90s alternative rock, done properly, can be.