Kill All Redneck Pricks: A Documentary About a Band Called KARP is currently screening at the Grand Illusion Cinema. The film, which documents the post-hardcore Tumwater band KARP, is a bit of a local rock history lesson. It includes interviews with Kathleen Hannah, King Buzzo, Kimya Dawson and other notable Northwest names from the early and mid 1908s.
KARP is a band the average local music fan might not know much about beside the fact that it is Melvins bassist Jared Warrn’s old band. This documentary, which is in limited release and will be shown at the Grand Illusion through Dec. 1, might bring a bit more attention to this forgotten gem from the pre-grunge era. Check out a clip from the film above and here’s a blurb about the documentary with a bit more info about the movie.
Kill All Redneck Pricks takes you from the high school corridors and soggy chicken coops of Tumwater, WA, to the dizzying heights of punk rock stardom, to a shock- ingly painful crash landing. The players are real, and the stakes are life, death, and the inspired dreams of youth. King Buzzo of The Melvins, Justin Trosper of Unwound, Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill/Le Tigre, Kimya Dawson, and Calvin Johnson are just a few of the legion of friends and heroes that narrate the history and comic brutality of KARP. This is a vital story of the Pacific Northwest, loud music and fragile humanity.
Showtimes for Kill All Redneck Pricks: A Documentary About a Band Called KARP are 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. through Dec. 1 except for Nov. 30 when there will only be a 9 p.m. screening.
