Seattle punk legends The Gits and their late singer Mia Zapata, who was murdered at the age of 27 in 1993, had their story told in the 2005 documentary The Gits, directed by Kerri O’Kane. That ...

The Gits, the early-'90s Seattle punk legends led by the late Mia Zapata, have sold their catalog to Sub Pop. The label has remastered it and made it available on the streaming service of your choice ...

Of the more than 230 films at the Seattle International Film Festival, more than a dozen are music documentaries, grouped together in a special section called “Face the Music.” Three are of special ...

Stories about the determined rise of a rock ‘n’ roll band are often uniquely embedded with dramatic potential. It helps when the characters are fully rounded and the context includes elements of an ...

Mia Zapata was drenched in sweat, surrounded by congested bodies as she geared up to sing “Second Skin,” the final song of The Gits’ set inside the cramped Jabberjaw Café. It was a hot summer day on ...

Mia Zapata, lead singer and songwriter for Seattle’s The Gits, was murdered on July 7, 1993, putting an end to a beautiful life and a promising up-and-coming band. She was 27 years old. The case was ...

Two weeks before she was raped and murdered in July 1993, singer Mia Zapata of The Gits penned these chilling lyrics for the song "Sign of the Crab": "Go ahead and slice me up/ Spread me across this ...

Kerri O'Kane's new film The Gits succeeds as a documentary--she makes the viewer fall in love with her subject--and then some. Working with sparse footage from the 1980s and '90s, O'Kane still manages ...