Episode #265 | 2.10.26

Mia Zapata: Missed Connections, the Dark End of the Street, and an Uncompromising Voice with No Fear

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In this episode

An uncompromising voice, silenced at the dark end of the street. A city looking for a killer in all the wrong places. And a scene that suddenly made little sense. From Seattle basements to European squat tours to record-label lunches and back again, through memory and justice. Listen to find out how Mia Zapata’s story refused to end where everyone thought it did.

Sources

The Gits (2005, dir. Kerri O’Kane)

Mia Zapata & the Gits: A Story of Art, Rock, and Revolution, by Steve Moriarty

Finally, DNA Evidence Leads to Arrest of Mia Zapata's Suspected Murderer (The Stranger)

Throwaway Style: On the Gits and What It Means to Puke the Blues (KEXP)

Mia Zapata's Killer Has Died. Peers Remember the Gits Singer's 'True Independent Soul' (Rolling Stone)

Never More (Village Voice)

A portrait of an artist as a young punk rocker: Mia Zapata of The Gits is still influential 30 years after her death (LA Times)

Mia Zapata Returns (Alta Online)

Mia Zapata (Unsolved Mysteries)

The Day the Music Died (Forensic Files)

7 Year Bitch's '¡Viva Zapata!' Turns 30 (Albumism

Credits

Hosted by Jake Brennan.

Written by Zeth Lundy.

Copy edited by James Sullivan.

Mixed by Matt Beaudoin

DISGRACELAND theme song, “Crenshaw Space Boogie,” written and produced by Jake Brennan. Performed by Jake Brennan, Bryce Kanzer, Jay Cannava, and Evan Kenney. Mixed and engineered by Adam Taylor.

*illustrations by Avi Spivak @avispivak