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).
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.
The Olympia scene is the subject of the closing song "Rock Star" on the Hole album Live Through This.
Notable Olympia bands
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- Abigail Williams
- Anna Oxygen
- Bangs
- Beat Happening
- Bikini Kill
- The Blow
- Broken Water
- C-Average
- Christian Mistress
- Cool Rays
- Courtney Love (the Lois Maffeo band)
- Danger Bunny
- Dead Air Fresheners
- Dub Narcotic Sound System
- Earth
- Excuse 17
- The Family Stoned
- The Frumpies
- godheadSilo
- The Go Team
- The Gossip
- Growing
- Gun Outfit
- Halo Benders
- Heavens to Betsy
- Hysterics
- Karp
- Lync
- Kicking Giant
- Kimya Dawson
- The Microphones
- Milk Music
- Mirah
- Miranda July
- The Need
- Nirvana
- Nomy Lamm
- The November Witch
- The Old Haunts
- Old Time Relijun
- Peeple Watchin'
- RVIVR
- Sleater-Kinney
- Some Velvet Sidewalk
- Spider & the Webs
- Steve Fisk
- Pell Mell
- Survival Knife
- Team Dresch
- The Emerald Down
- Tracy + the Plastics
- Unwound
- Western Hymn
- White Boss
- Wolves in the Throne Room
Radio
These are radio stations that play local music.
Record labels
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