The documentary film THE GITS has been confirmed for theatrical release on July 7 [today], the 15th memorial anniversary of death of lead singer Mia Zapata. For all you unfamiliar with the band of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

An unhappy chapter of the Seattle music scene is passionately recounted in “The Gits,” a tribute to a short-lived band. This documentary organizes the band’s story as a saga of music and crime. The ...

If you’re unfamiliar with Mia Zapata and the Gits, you’ve yet to hear one of punk rock’s saddest tales. Zapata, the band’s frontwoman, was brutally attacked at the band’s height in 1993, and her ...

More than 30 years since frontwoman Mia Zapata was murdered on the streets of Seattle in 1993, Sub Pop Records is working to remind people just how powerful she and her band The Gits were. “It’s been ...

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 ...

It would be a stretch to suggest that The Gits' music made it one of the great bands, sung or unsung, of the early-'90s Seattle rock explosion. It might even be a stretch to say that the group — which ...

Mia Zapata led the punk group The Gits in Seattle during the grunge years. Before she could be in the national spotlight, she was raped and murdered in 1993. A new book remembers her life and work. At ...

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 ...