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Dr. Portia Sabin is President of the Music Business Association (Music Biz), a not-for-profit trade association that seeks to promote sustained financial growth and bolster inclusion & equity efforts in all areas of the global music business. Sabin previously served as president of the independent record label Kill Rock Stars, and has been ...
- Kill Rock Stars Is Born
- Unintentional Successes
- A Return to The Roots
“Before the interconnectedness of the modern world, if you had a dream to be an actor or a musician you really moved to LA or New York or Nashville,” says 54-year-old Slim Moon. In the mid-1980s, he moved to Olympia, Washington. According to Moon, it was a city filled with the artisticallyambitious. “When you’re not making music with a commercial s...
Arguably the most fruitful partnership in the label’s history was its association with a Portland-based songwriter named Elliott Smith. At the time, Slim Moon knew that working with Smith would represent a huge sonic departure for the record label. But he was deeply attached to Smith’s alternative folk sound. “I’m enmeshed in this punk rock scene a...
During the tumultuous years of the late 2000s, Sabin says, she never considered shutting down the label. In fact, she saw an unexpected opportunity to expand into an artform that she viewed as underserved and largely unaffected by the economic turmoil: stand-up comedy. Hari Kondabolu was at the forefront of a wave of up-and-coming comedians who rel...
Aug 2, 2017 · For a decade, Dr Portia Sabin has been president of legendary indie label Kill Rock Stars. The label was founded in the early-90s and quickly became synonymous with the fledgling Riot Grrrl movement.
Meet Portia Sabin, she’s a busy lady as president of the independent record label Kill Rock Stars and host of the music business podcast ‘The Future of What’. Kill Rock Stars (KRS) has a great inclusive mission to: “…put out exceptional records by important artists, and our tradition of being queer-positive, feminist, and artist ...
Jun 9, 2022 · The Almost Complete History of Kill Rock Stars. Interviews, KEXP 50, Local Music. 06/09/2022. Martin Douglas. Slim Moon circa 1986 // Courtesy of Slim Moon & Dr. Portia Sabin. As KEXP celebrates 50 years of bringing our love of music to the community, we find ourselves this week exploring 1991, the so-called "Year that Punk Broke."
Nov 19, 2015 · If you listened last week, we talked it up with Hell’s Kitchen’s own Portia Sabin, daughter of an actor and casting director who set out on her own to, oh, I dunno…get a PhD in cultural anthropology from Columbia, start a management company, tour the country with her own band and then take over Kill Rock Stars Records here in Portland.
