Career Bolme became interested in playing music after seeing
the Pretenders while in high school, and she was a fan of the Portland punk scene in the 80s. She learned to play bass when she "got bored with guitar" while playing with
Calamity Jane. Over the years, she has played in bands including
Quasi,
the Minders,
the Spinanes, Jr. High, Calamity Jane, Consortium, the Shadow Mortons, and
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks. Bolme was a long-time friend (and former girlfriend) of musician
Elliott Smith; she worked to mix his critically acclaimed 1997 album
Either/Or and his posthumous 2004 album
From a Basement on the Hill, with the help of producer Rob Schnapf. Bolme became one of the founding members of the Jicks after finding out – during a game of
Scrabble with
Stephen Malkmus – that he had been playing music with John Moen.
Personal life Bolme was born in
Florida. She moved to
Portland, Oregon, early in her life and has lived there since. She is married to
Gary Jarman of
the Cribs. ==Discography==