While the marriage only lasted four years, their friendship and creative collaboration has endured for decades. They met, married, and started making music together. Weiss was a fan of Coomes’s wry, erudite San Francisco-based folk rock band, The Donner Party. Weiss and Coomes have been linchpins in the Pacific Northwest music community since the 1980s. The lead single, “Queen of Ears,” starts off with a series of synth bursts from Coomes’s keyboard rig, an instrument of his own design called the Rocksichord, accompanied by Weiss’s pounding rhythm, then swells with shared vocals into unexpected harmony. in a fast, five-day session, purposefully designed to attempt to capture the live performance environment in which the songs were written.īreaking the Balls of History is full of catchy yet compositionally adventurous tracks that underline the pair’s unique musical connection. It was produced by John Goodmanson (Sleater-Kinney, Bikini Kill, Death Cab for Cutie) at Robert Lang Studios in Shoreline, Wash. It’s their 10th album and their first since 2013’s Mole City. The results are documented on Breaking the Balls of History. As her health improved, a fresh batch of songs began to take shape, featuring the band’s trademark sonic sophistication and savage social commentary. “We really started practicing heavily, like every day, and that’s what I think accelerated my recovery and my ability to get back to drumming.” (Credit: John Clark)Ĭoomes brought new ideas to Weiss. “When I started feeling better, we started practicing,” she says. Facing an uncertain future, Janet gradually found the strength to wheel herself over to a little electronic drum kit and began making music again with Coomes. Her sister, Julie, launched a GoFundMe for physical therapy, nursing care, and other expenses.
Weiss was surrounded by her partner, friends, and family to help kickstart the arduous healing process.
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