{"id":800008,"date":"2019-10-02T17:37:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T23:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=894132"},"modified":"2019-10-02T17:37:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T23:37:18","slug":"kim-shattuck-muffs-founder-and-singer-dead-at-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/kim-shattuck-muffs-founder-and-singer-dead-at-56\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Shattuck, Muffs Founder and Singer, Dead at 56"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kim Shattuck, the singer and guitarist who co-founded and led the SoCal punk band the Muffs alongside contributions for the Pixies and NOFX, died Wednesday at the age of 56. A rep for Shattuck\u2019s band the Coolies confirmed her death to Rolling Stone.<\/em> The cause was Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).<\/p>\n

\u201cThis morning, the love of my life passed peacefully in her sleep after a two-year struggle with ALS,\u201d Shattuck\u2019s husband, Kevin Sutherland, wrote. \u201cI am the man I am today because of her. She will live with all of us through her music, our shared memories and in her fierce, creative spirit.\u201d\u2018<\/p>\n

A punk at heart, Shattuck cut her teeth playing bass in California hard rock band the Pandoras. Following their dissolution in 1990, she went on to form the SoCal punk band the Muffs. As lead singer-guitarist, Shattuck permeated the college radio waves with her inimitable, bratty snarl. The band\u2019s polished pop-punk melodies suddenly became ubiquitous in the mid-Nineties, after they refashioned Kim Wilde\u2019s 1981 hit \u201cKids in America\u201d for the 1995 film Clueless<\/em>, and released their breakout album Blonder and Blonder<\/em> that same year.<\/p>\n

Shattuck moonlighted as a guest vocalist for many other punk acts: she joined NOFX in their Punk in Drublic<\/em> cut, \u201cLori Meyers,\u201d the Dollyrots in their track \u201cSome Girls,\u201d and Bowling For Soup\u2019s 2009 song, \u201cI\u2019ll Always Remember You (That Way).\u201d In 2013, Shattuck would later replace Kim Deal as bassist in the Pixies but would depart from the group later that year. In an interview with NME<\/em>, Shattuck speculated that the band dismissed her for taking a stage dive<\/a> at the Mayan Theater in Los Angeles. \u201cI know they weren\u2019t thrilled about that,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen I got offstage, the manager told me not to do that again. I said, \u2018Really, for my own safety?\u2019 And he said, \u2018No, because the Pixies don\u2019t do that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The Muffs reunited in 2014 to produce their first album in 10 years, titled Whoop Dee Doo<\/em>. The band was slated  to release their upcoming album, No Holiday<\/em>, on October 18th.<\/p>\n

This story is developing<\/em><\/p>\n

The Muffs \u2013 \u201cKids in America\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n