Blog: LocalCut

Portland's Dirtnap Records just stumbled into its 10th year. Dirtnap Records' Ken Cheppaikode at his SE Portland record store, Green Noise. IMAGE: Tom Martinez Call it an example of the American Punk Rock Dream: A decade ago, Ken Cheppaikode was living in an apartment below a vet clinic in Seattle, cleaning cat shit out of litter boxes in exchange for free rent and nurturing a vague idea of starting his own record label. Today, he is entering his 10th year as the head of Portland's Dirtnap Records. For an imprint [...]