This week we sit down with the amaizing Kim Coletta! Kim bought her first bass from David Grubbs (Squirrelbait, Bastro, Gastr del Sol) when they both attended college in Washington, DC. After graduating, much to her father's chagrin, she started Jawbox with J. Robbins and Adam Wade. Shortly after, Coletta founded DeSoto Records to put out Edsel and early Jawbox material. Although Jawbox took a long hiatus starting in 1997, they reunited in 2018 and have since toured the U.S. and Europe. All told, the band has played around 700 live shows. Coletta works as a fifth-grade English teacher when she's not playing bass and coaches baseball. She is also a parent to Nick, a 21-year-old University of Vermont student who squeezes in some academics when not snowboarding.

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