Katie Kate - "Buffalo"

"Save me, I can transform you..." Grit-fem tones, self-mutilation, teleportation, a final attempt at propagating a nearly extinct species, memory loss, pyromania, human sacrifice, and a transcendental migration over heavy and haunting pop synths and a powerful hip hop beat. "Buffalo" is Written, Produced and Performed by: Katie Kate

Beat Prodigies Showcase

This is happening tonight with some very good friends and family.

Katie Kate - Zombie

New track by Kate. She is going to cut your head off. She plays Bumbershoot this Sunday September 2nd at 1:30pm on The Promenade stage.





"Zombie" was created the morning after a vivid dream - Kate was held captive in a 1960's ranch-style house in upstate New York, surrounded by fields and cliffs full of fossils. Her captors trained her in the art of the samurai sword so that she could help exterminate the hordes of zombies that rose up from the tall grass at dusk. The inevitability of sunset and the fury of battle inform this dreamy, ominous and bloodthirsty glimpse into Kate's subconscious.

Production, Beats and Lyrics by Katie Kate
Recorded and Mixed at Studio Nels, Seattle by Charlie Smith
Executive Producer - Charlie Smith

Kate Barboza 8/17

Katie Kate playing Barboza in one week. Don't miss out! Special guest Diamond Rings.

Bumbershoot 2012

Congrats to DtttC! & Kate for holding it down for OFS this year.

Katie Kate - Uh...No

New video from the sister from another mister, Katie Kate. Directed by Stephan Gray, this video shows the playful yet glamorous side of Kate. I truly love the collaboration between these two. Strong yet simple visuals compliment Kate's "rap" song perfectly.

K. Flay

This Sunday the fabulous Katie Kate will be playing with K Flay at The Crocodile. GET TICKETS HERE and bring your ass to the club to see these two bring energetic rap song sing dance awesomeness.

No Diggity

Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground bring you another remix this week and this time it is for Blackstreet's No Diggity. Once again, these gents capture a 90's r&b/rap song that is almost as good, if not better, than the original. I love the fact they have Kate doing her best Dr. Dre impression on the verse and I cannot wait for more remixes next week.



In case you missed the Mary J and Hall and Oates remixes check below.

Kate @ Sunset TONIGHT

This is happening tonight and you should be happening with it. BALLARD!!

Dancing On The Valentine

This annual benefit for The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society is happening tonight. Come see great Duran Duran covers by some great musicians supporting a good cause.

Houses Remix

Seattle's NW Based God and long time Lil B producer Keyboard Kid takes his hand to remix Katie Kate's Houses, off her new record Flatland released on Out For Stardom. Keyboard flips the original version into sonic spaceflight. Full of warm bass tones, frantic hi hats and moody synth lines that have come to represent the new 'Cloud Rap' movement. Katie Kate's vocals are drawn out and at times inaudible, but create a whole new spacious edge to the already emotive feeling of the original.

Out For Sasquatch

Happy to see the whole team going this year! Congrats are in order to Fresh Espresso, Metal Chocolates, Katie Kate, & Don't Talk To The Cops!. It is truly going to be a monumental weekend. This is year four for us and so pleased to be able to play music out in the middle of nowhere. We are going to tear shit down, again. REMEMBER what we've done in the past? GET TIX

Sasquatch! Music Festival 2012 Lineup Announcement from Sasquatch Festival on Vimeo.

NYE Poster

This New Year's Eve... EVERYONE MUST DIE.



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Katie Kate - Flatland

Kate's moment has finally arrived!! Her album Flatland comes out today and I must say I am so excited for my sister from another mister. You can find it on all iTunes, Amazon, Bandcamp, and at Everyday Music in Seattle. You can listen to it here, but you must go cop that so you can bump it always. Buy the album because the artwork is actually functional. We celebrate the release of this record this Thursday.

Kate on KEXP

Katie Kate 9/24/2011 In-Studio Performance

Not only is Seattle’s Katie Kate a versatile MC and singer, but she’s no joke on the production either - crafting innovative beats that range from (or combine) hip-hop, electronic and pop. She’s joined by Mad Rad’s Terry Radjaw in this exclusive KEXP performance. - W. Myers

CLICK HERE to listen! Photo by Mary Kalhor.

Flatland Album Art

Katie Kate's album is coming out October 18th and we are celebrating the release of her album with a gigantic party at Neumos October 20th. Make sure you get your tickets now before it's too late. Below is the cover for her album Flatland in which I used some photos that Janae Jones took. I think it's truly most gorgeous.

OFS Geniuses

This what The Stranger had to say about three of OFS' own geniuses. I must add I consider everybody that I fucks with a genius. I am so blessed to be surrounded by such amazing human beings on a daily basis. It is my honor to work with you all and a huge pleasure to call you my friends and my family. Much respect from NJ to SEA, OFS!


NATHAN QUIROGA
One of the more surprising transformations of the year was watching Mad Rad's Buffalo Madonna—a man known for scaling the sides of a festival stage at Sasquatch! a few years back and rapping from above the stage's roof—transform into a subdued memoirist publishing under his given name. A confessional essay Nathan Quiroga read aloud at several literary events this year, later published in The Stranger, was daring, dark, and rueful. Quiroga is of the mind that readings aren't as alluring as they need to be, and this year plans to start a reading series in alleys at twilight, with writers up on ladders, and beer, and possibly music. -CHRISTOPHER FRIZZELLE


OC NOTES
This year alone, OC Notes (Otis Calvin III), a local hiphop producer, has released four superb albums: Metal Chocolates (with the highly regarded rapper Rik Rude), The New Generation (embracing the new age), Medicine, and Secret Society. As a local hiphop album, Secret Society (the first of OC's rock-influenced recordings, the other being The New Generation) is second only to Shabazz Palaces' Black Up—and it's a close second. (True, if THEESatisfaction had released their sophomore album this year, Secret Society would be third—but, again, a very close third). OC Notes, who recently moved into Vitamin D's former recording place in Pioneer Square, is a genius, and like all true geniuses, he is generous. OC Notes is a pure giver; he is always giving beats to this city. -CHARLES MUDEDE


KATIE KATE
Katie Kate is a rapper, producer, and classically trained pianist. She studied music at Cornish and is currently a member of the Out for Stardom crew (Mad Rad, Fresh Espresso, and Metal Chocolates). Recently she completed her debut album, Flatland, which we're hoping will be released this year—and the album's production is solid and her range (singing, rapping, beat-making, keyboarding) impressive. Indeed, Katie Kate could easily become one of the top local producers—a realm that's screaming for more female talent. Her hiphop beats for "Totebag" and "Body Out" are first-rate, and the techno/new wave of "Copenhagen" and "Houses" is beautifully cold, dark, and cosmopolitan. Katie has a muscular sense of composition or design; her music is carefully built, part by part, with this part corresponding with that part, and this melodic line corresponding with that melodic line. Her music is in the details. -CHARLES MUDEDE


GENIUS AWARDS TONIGHT @ THE MOORE THEATRE. GO GO GO GO

Thig Natural @ Pinky's UP

One of the freshest brothers on the block, Thig Natural aka The Brooks Brother will be playing his favorite jams this week for Pinky's Up. With the release of The Physics new record, come have a drink with him and I as we celebrate being awesome. Summer is getting close to being over, ugh I know!, and we must soak up the sun as much as possible. I for one am drinking a few mojitos and playing some slow jams this week. Well, that and maybe some rap music. No, better yet I will just play Katie Kate's entire new record on loop. Perfect!

Mad Rad @ The Jet Poster

We are playing with our homies SOTA & Katie Kate. This one should be crizzackalacking.

Katie Kate - Constellation

Miss Kate has dropped her first video for the song "Constellation". I must say it is a pleasure and an honor to work with such a talented woman. She continues to inspire me and motivate me to make cool shit. She plays Comet on the 19th which was the last poster I made before the computer died, so expect another one this week. For now, enjoy this:

Katie Kate - "Constellation" from Kate Finn on Vimeo.