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Carrie Brownstein of
Sleater-Kinney in Olympia, between 1994 and 2001
The port city of
Olympia, Washington , has been a center of
post-hardcore ,
anti-folk , and other youth-oriented musical genres since the late 1970s. Before this period, Olympia's
The Fleetwoods had several
Billboard chart successes between 1959 and 1963. Olympia saw a rise in feminism in the music industry, where artists commonly addressed rape, domestic abuse, sexuality, racism, patriarchy, classism, anarchism, and female empowerment in their songs.
[1] It was a center for the
riot grrrl movement of the early 1990s, which featured
Bikini Kill and
Bratmobile .
[2]
Olympia's downtown Capitol Theater hosted the punk and indie-rock International Pop Underground Convention in 1991 and the Yoyo-A-Go-Go festival in 1994, 1997, 1999 and 2001.
[3] The city has several record labels and companies, including
K Records and
Kill Rock Stars ; Kill Rock Stars has signed
Bikini Kill ,
Sleater-Kinney ,
Unwound and
Elliott Smith .
Notable musicians and groups
Bangs , part of the riot grrrl movement, formed in 1997 and were active until 2010. Kill Rock Stars signed the band.
Beat Happening , which formed in 1982, played
lo-fi music .
Bikini Kill , which formed in 1990 as pioneers of the riot grrrl movement, released several EPs and two albums.
The Blow , founded in 2001, deliver Olympia-influenced monologues.
Bratmobile played punk and early riot grrrl music from 1991 to 2003.
Cool Rays , formed by Evergreen State College students, active 1980-1981.
Lois Maffeo was most active during the early 1990s.
Dub Narcotic Sound System , formed in 1995, was signed to K Records.
Earth , 1989–1997, 2003–present.
Excuse 17 recorded from 1993 to 1995.
The Fleetwoods , a vocal pop group, recorded "Come Softly to Me" (their debut single and biggest hit) in 1959.
[4]
The Frumpies , a lo-fi
punk rock band, formed in 1992 and split in 2000.
G.L.O.S.S. was a
trans-feminist hardcore punk band which formed in 2014 and split in 2016.
godheadSilo : A
noise rock duo which first formed in 1991 and reformed in 2015, focusing on
stoner rock and
sludge metal .
The Go Team was a duo which was active from 1985 to 1989.
Gossip was active from 1999 to 2016, and participated in Olympia's 2000 Ladyfest.
Heavens to Betsy was a punk duo which formed during the early 1990s.
Milk Music was a four-member band founded in 2008.
The Need , a
queercore band formed in the mid-1990s, was signed to the Kill Rock Stars label and was active until 2001.
The Old Haunts , formed in 2001, was also signed to the Kill Rock Stars label.
Sleater-Kinney , originally part of the riot grrrl movement, has released ten albums since 1994.
[5]
Team Dresch is an American queercore/punk band which formed in 1993.
Wynne Greenwood performed
electropop music as
Tracy + the Plastics during the early 2000s via video projection.
Unwound was active from 1991 to 2002.
Radio stations
Record labels
Music festivals and events
References
^ Lowndes, Sarah (2016).
"Rebel Girl You Are my World: Riot Grrl in Olympia Washington after 1991" . Routledge.
^ Schilt, K (2004).
"Riot Grrrl is…': Contestation over meaning in a music scene. Music scenes: Local, translocal, and virtual" (PDF) . Bennett Peterson Music.
^ van Horn, Teri (June 25, 2001).
"Bratmobile, Need, Gossip Playing Yoyo A Gogo Festival" . Mtv.com . MTV. Retrieved September 8, 2016 .
^
Erlewine, Stephen Thomas .
"The Fleetwoods" . Allmusic . Retrieved 21 November 2021 .
^ Shaffer, Claire (11 May 2021).
"Sleater-Kinney Return With New Single 'Worry With You' " .
Rolling Stone . Retrieved 21 November 2021 .
^ Rose, Cynthia (July 5, 1996).
"The Return Of Vinyl Frenzy – Seven-Inch Singles Are The Hot New Item For Rock's Underground" . Seattle Times .
^ Lord, Mary Lou (2011).
"About Mary Lou Lord" . Kill Rock Stars. Archived from
the original on November 14, 2013. Retrieved November 13, 2013 .
^
"Sisters Outsiders: The Oral History of the 'Bikini Kill' EP" . Spin : 3. November 15, 2012. Retrieved November 14, 2013 .
^ Hunt, El (27 August 2019).
"A brief history of Riot Grrrl the space-reclaiming 90s punk movement" . NME .