Effective period / Period of releases: 2019 - 2021

American songwriter and musician, and the lead guitarist/vocalist of Portland, Oregon punk/indie rock band The Thermals. He also writes and performs under the name Forbidden Friends.

Hutch Harris was born in New York City on October 5, 1975. His family moved to San Jose, California in 1983. He met Kathy Foster after graduating high school in 1993. Harris and Foster played in the bands Haelah, Hutch and Kathy, and Urban Legends before moving to Portland, Oregon in 1998. He wrote and recorded the first The Thermals record, More Parts per Million, in the kitchen of his one-bedroom house in Southeast Portland in early 2002.