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In the 1990s, while Seattle was pounding juice drinks at the Gravity Bar before knocking heads in front of a grunge band at the Weathered Wall, Olympians were knee deep in a D.I.Y. music revolution, running between house concerts and packing it in anytime indie-metal band KARP found a stage. Short for Kill All Redneck Pricks, KARP anchored the other end of the K Records roster - the loud, impenitent high-energy end. By the end of the '90s, like many of the Olympia venues of the time, KARP faded to black.

After 4 1/2 years of collecting archival footage - and conducting interviews with Calvin Johnson of K Records, Justin Trosper of Unwound, Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill and others - Brooklyn filmmaker William E. Badgley has managed to capture the rise and fall of the raucous band in his film, Kill All Redneck Pricks: A documentary about a band called KARP. The film documents- in a rough-and-tumble style - the story of the Olympia sludge band and its exposure to drugs, demons and bad luck.

Tacomans get a chance to see the film on a big, pull-down screen tomorrow night when the New Frontier Lounge screens the KARP documentary at 7 p.m., with a Q&A with the film's director and bands to follow according to Jason Locking, who orchestrates "RocDoc Tuesdays" at the New Frontier.

See a full screening schedule, view trailer or pre-order the DVD at www.karplives.com.

[The New Frontier Lounge, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 7 p.m., $5, 301 E. 25th St., Tacoma, 253.572.4020]