The Gits

Documentary specialist Kerri O'Kane details the rise of promising Seattle-based punk outfit The Gits while simultaneously exploring the brutal murder of the band's charismatic front-woman Mia Zapata. In the early-1990s, Seattle music fans longing to distance themselves from the exploding "grunge" ...more

The Gits are one of those bands that many have heard of, but few have actually heard. The Ohio-based band relocated, ultimately springing out of the burgeoning Pacific Northwest music scene during the fertile 1990s, when Nirvana was breaking. The future was blinding for the Gits, who shifted away from the region's unpolished grunge sound in favor of gnarly punk rock. Their charismatic singer, Mia Zapata, generated plenty of heat and friction with her smoky, bluesy pipes and her spindly frame, ...more