Even indie label owners want to be indie musicians. San Francisco act The Peechees included the founders of Lookout! Records, including former Bratmobile member and was instrumental in the riot grrrl movement. The group released two albums on Olympia’s Kill Rock Stars and toured with groups like Bikini Kill, Sleater-Kinney, and Unwound. Just before they’d break-up in 1998, the group would go out in a clash of punk noise with their Sub Pop Singles Club 7-inch. Shortly after their break-up, Kill Rock Stars would release a compilation of rarities called Life, which also included a knotty tribute to Portland’s own Elliott Smith.

-Dusty Henry, courtesy of KEXP