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. Along with Washington D.C., Olympia was a center for the riot grrrl movement in the early 1990s (Olympia's Bikini Kill and Bratmobile being arguably the most 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 by Calvin Johnson, and Kill Rock Stars (founded in 1991 by Slim Moon) (Bikini Kill, Sleater-Kinney, Unwound). 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 80s/early 90s before moving on to Seattle and worldwide fame. Olympia's The Fleetwoods enjoyed several Billboard chart successes between 1959-1963. The Olympia scene is the subject of the closing song on the Hole album Live Through This.
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Notable Olympia bands [edit]
- Anna Oxygen
- Bangs
- Beat Happening
- Bikini Kill
- C Average
- Cadallaca
- Cool Rays
- Courtney Love (the Lois Maffeo band)
- Dead Air Fresheners
- Dub Narcotic Sound System
- Earth
- Emnity
- Excuse 17
- Freckles Brown Band
- godheadSilo
- Growing
- Halo Benders
- Heavens to Betsy
- Johnny Stranger
- Karp
- Kicking Giant
- Kimya Dawson
- Meconium
- Mirah
- Miranda July
- Nirvana
- Nomy Lamm
- Old Time Relijun
- RVIVR
- Rocket Attack
- Rose Melberg
- Sleater-Kinney
- Some Velvet Sidewalk
- Steve Fisk
- Pell Mell
- Team Dresch
- The Blow
- The Frumpies
- The Go Team
- The Gossip
- The Hail Seizures
- The Microphones
- The Need
- Tracy + the Plastics
- Two Ton Boa
- Unwound
- Wolves in the Throne Room
Radio [edit]
These are radio stations that play local music.
Record labels [edit]
References [edit]
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