Khaela Maricich is an American pop musician and visual artist based in Portland, Oregon. She records for K Records. She is a native of Seattle's Queen Anne Hill, lived in Olympia, Washington for a decade, and was recently the artist-in-residence at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art. She is formerly of the band The Microphones.
Until 2002, her solo music was known either as "Get the Hell Out of the Way of the Volcano", "Get the Hell Out of the Way of the Wave", or "Khaela Maricich". Since then, she's performed exclusively as "The Blow". From 2004 to 2006, she collaborated with Jona Bechtolt, a programmer and singer with his own one-person band, YACHT.
She has written songs that involve, and sometimes combine, both folk and electronic music. She has toured the United States extensively, performing her monologue-based solo opera, "Blue Sky Versus Night Sky", as well as giving more traditional concerts of dance-party music.
She has held a number of exhibitions of her drawings and illuminated paper sculptures in Seattle, Olympia, and Portland. As of February 2007, she is currently on a world tour to support her new record, Paper Television.
Recently, Bechtolt decided to leave The Blow to focus on his own band, YACHT.
