Music of Olympia
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The Pacific Northwest town of Olympia, Washington, United States, has been a center of post-hardcore, anti-folk, and other youth-oriented musical genres since at least the late 1970s; before that, Olympia's The Fleetwoods enjoyed several Billboard chart successes between 1959-1963. Along with Washington, D.C., Olympia was a center for the riot grrrl movement in the early 1990s, with Bikini Kill and Bratmobile as prominent proponents of the movement.
Olympia is also the home of a number of record labels, including K Records (Beat Happening, Mirah, The Microphones), which was co-founded in 1983, and Kill Rock Stars (founded in 1991 by Slim Moon) (Bikini Kill, Sleater-Kinney, Unwound, Elliott Smith).
The city's historic Capitol Theater was the site of the International Pop Underground Convention, a punk and indie rock music festival in 1991,[1] as well as the similarly-themed Yoyo A Go Go in 1994, 1997, 1999, and 2001.[2]
Notable early-period musicians and recording artists included John Foster (John Foster's Pop Philosophers), Lois Maffeo and Steve Fisk (Pell Mell). Beck and Ian Svenonius (of the Make-Up) frequented Olympia in the early 1990s and Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic of Nirvana moved to Olympia from Aberdeen/Hoquiam in the late 1980s/early 1990s before moving on to Seattle and worldwide fame.
The Olympia scene is the subject of the closing song "Rock Star" on the Hole album Live Through This.
Notable Olympia bands
- Abigail Williams
- Anna Oxygen
- Arsenic Lace
- Bangs
- Beat Happening
- Beta Boys
- Bikini Kill
- Blood Orphans
- The Blow
- Bone Sickness
- Bratmobile
- Broken Water
- C.C Dust
- C-Average
- Cheshire
- Christian Mistress
- Cool Rays
- Courtney Love (the Lois Maffeo band)
- Danger Bunny
- Dead Air Fresheners
- Defaceman
- Dub Narcotic Sound System
- Earth
- Excuse 17
- The Family Stoned
- Fitz of Depression
- The Fleetwoods
- Foodpusher
- The Frumpies
- Fuzzy Math
- GAG
- G.D.C. (Generic Crib Death)
- G.L.O.S.S.
- godheadSilo
- The Go Team
- The Gossip
- Growing
- Gun Outfit
- Halo Benders
- Heavens to Betsy
- Heliotroupe
- Helltrout
- Hot Cops
- HPP
- Human Skab
- Hysterics
- Immoral Roberts
- Inspector 23
- Karp
- Kicking Giant
- Kimya Dawson
- Limp Richards
- Lync
- Man Attacks Beer Truck
- Man made moons.
- The Microphones
- Milk Music
- Minors in Possession
- Mirah
- Miranda July
- MothRider
- The Need
- Nirvana
- Nomy Lamm
- The November Witch
- The Old Haunts
- Old Time Relijun
- Peeple Watchin'
- Pro-Ex Marauders
- Rik and the Pigs
- RVIVR
- Sex Vid
- Sleater-Kinney
- Some Velvet Sidewalk
- Special Moves
- Spider & the Webs
- Steve Fisk
- Pell Mell
- Survival Knife
- Team Dresch
- The Emerald Down
- Tracy + the Plastics
- Trans FX
- Treehouse
- Unwound
- Vexx
- Volume 3
- Western Hymn
- Wimps
- White Boss
- Wolves in the Throne Room
- Young Pioneers
- Youth Regiment
Radio
These are radio stations that play local music.
Record labels
References
- ↑ Nelson, Chris (8 August 2001). "The Day the Music Didn't Die". Seattle Weekly. Seattle, WA. Retrieved September 8, 2016.
- ↑ van Horn, Teri (June 25, 2001). "Bratmobile, Need, Gossip Playing Yoyo A Gogo Festival". Mtv.com. MTV. Retrieved September 8, 2016.