Fields and Streams
(Kill Rock Stars)
By Jamie Kiffel
With 37 chick bands, eight indie boy bands and a total of 45 unreleased tracks, one contemplates: Why were they not released earlier?
A series of haiku, inspired by popular culture, have been penned to explore the subject. Enlightenment is found.
Tinkerbell is pissed
Peter Pan has speaking parts
Watch her steal his Gretsch
Tink is rockin’ out
Watch the fairy dust fly, but
The gator’s coming
Forty-five tracks, and
The ticking clock the beast ate
Makes better music.
So the story ends:
Two discs could be saved with one
Cleverly placed Hook.
Rocking in the Fields: Quails, Manda and the Marbles, Coolies, Lost Sounds, Rock*A*Teens, Industrial Skyline, Dada Swing, Stereo Total, Gene Defcon, The Supreme Indifference, Mecca Normal, Convocation Of…, Beehive and the Barracudas, The Aislers Set, Comet Gain, Mona Reels, I’m Being Good, Drillboxignition, Braille Stars, The Reputation, Delta Dart; Rolling in the Streams: Tender Trap, Bangs, Fifth Column, The Dishes, Jeff Hanson, Mary Timony, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Long Goodbye, Red Monkey, Carla Bozulich, The Process, Erase Errata, Love Life, Deerhoof, Quasi, The Mooney Suzuki, Dirt Bike Annie, The Butchies, Lorelei, Thoroughbred, Danielle Howle and the Tantrums, Virginia North, Neko Case and Her Boyfriends, Two Ton Boa.
(PMB 418 120 N.E. State St. Olympia, WA 98501)