Parrish said they started using Bandcamp last year to share download codes for a new Horse Feathers album, “then we did those four Elliott songs in August and they did really well. Using Bandcamp, KRS has been able to distribute releases digitally as soon as they’re ready – such as the legendary Smith’s Either/Or Alternate Versions. “We ordered an Elliott Smith 7” in October and didn’t get them until a few days before SXSW.” Luckily fans haven’t had to wait that long to hear the music.

“It’s been taking up to five months for us to get records pressed because so many people are putting out vinyl releases now, and there aren’t enough plants to handle the demand.” That makes planning physical releases a little more difficult.

Surprisingly, as Parrish told me, the turnaround time for vinyl is getting longer. When the UPS man shows up with new vinyl, often it’s Ben Parrish, integral executor of day-to-day business at KRS, who signs for it. There’s a company in this building that straddles that line nicely, though – one of the Pacific Northwest’s most important independent record labels: Kill Rock Stars. It’s a very postmodern vision: an old factory that’s been gutted, shined up, and repurposed for office space, where most of the businesses push paper rather than products and craft e-mails instead of make widgets. Now sleekly renovated, the old mill is packed with many of Portland’s pioneers of new industry.

It’s a hulking former cereal factory, taking up a whole city block and only describable as mustard yellow. In a historic southeastern industrial district of Portland, Oregon, there’s a building called the Olympic Mills. Pre-order buy pre-order buy you own this wishlist in wishlist go to album go to track go to album go to track

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