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The Halo Benders
The Halo Benders was a band formed in 1994 as a side project by Calvin Johnson (musician), Calvin Johnson of Beat Happening and Doug Martsch of Built to Spill. They released their first album, ''God Don't Make No Junk'', in 1994. They followed up in 1996 with ''Don't Tell Me Now'' and in 1998 with ''The Rebels Not In''. Following a hiatus through the early 2000s, the Halo Benders reformed in March 2007 for a pair of shows at the Visual Arts Collective in Boise, Idaho. The band featured Doug Martsch, Ralf Youtz, Calvin Johnson (musician), Calvin Johnson, Caustic Resin, Brett Netson, and Stephen Gere. November 2010, a reformed version with Doug, Calvin, Ralf Youtz and Wayne Flower appeared for a benefit for Friends of Mia, a child who had started an organization to help children with cancer and their families before herself passing away of cancer, at the Capitol Theater (Olympia), Capitol Theater in Olympia, WA. All three of the band's albums were released on Johnson's Olympia re ...
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The Rebels Not In
''The Rebels Not In'' (1998) is the third and final album recorded by the United States, American indie rock group The Halo Benders. The album was released on K Records on February 3, 1998, on vinyl record, vinyl LP and compact disc. It was the third full-length release from the Halo Benders, a side project of Calvin Johnson (musician), Calvin Johnson (of Beat Happening) and Doug Martsch (of Built to Spill). Its catalogue number is KLP81. It has a generally more polished sound than the Halo Benders' previous efforts. The unique intro drum beat on "Bury Me" is a nod to The Wedding Present song "Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah," from their 1994 album ''Watusi''. This is further evidenced by Martsch's chorus of "Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah." Critical reception ''Magnet (magazine), Magnet'' wrote that the album "merged the playful spirit of early K with higher-end production." ''Pitchfork Media'' ranked "Virginia Reel Around the Fountain" at #188 on its "Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s" list. ''CM ...
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Boise, Idaho
Boise ( ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of cities in Idaho, most populous city of the U.S. state of Idaho. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, there were 235,685 people residing in the city. Located on the Boise River in southwestern Idaho, it is east of the Oregon border and north of the Nevada border. The downtown area's elevation is Sea level#AMSL, above sea level. It is the county seat of Ada County, Idaho, Ada County. The Boise metropolitan area, also known as the Treasure Valley, includes five County (United States), counties with a combined population of 749,202, the most populous metropolitan area in Idaho. It contains the state's three largest cities: Boise, Nampa, Idaho, Nampa, and Meridian, Idaho, Meridian. The Boise metropolitan area, Boise–Nampa Metropolitan Statistical Area is the 74th most populous List of metropolitan statistical areas, metropolitan statistical area in the United States. Downtown Boise is the ...
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Wayne Flower
TreePeople is an educational and training environmental advocacy organization based in Los Angeles, California. The TreePeople organization advocates and works to support sustainable urban ecosystems in the Greater Los Angeles area through education, volunteer community-based action, and advocacy. Organization history TreePeople was founded in Los Angeles in 1973 by an 18-year-old activist Andy Lipkis. Lipkis and a group of other teenagers began planting trees three years prior at summer camp in the San Bernardino Mountains. Lipkis heard that smog from Los Angeles was drifting up to the mountains and killing the forest. He rallied his fellow campers, tore up a parking lot, and planted smog-tolerant trees. Lipkis served as president of TreePeople for many years and still serves as a Board Member. Cindy Montañez became the Chief Executive Officer in 2016. The organization works with thousands of members and volunteers and more than 50 staff members, operating out of the C ...
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Musical Groups From Olympia, Washington
The port city of Olympia, Washington, has been a center of post-hardcore, anti-folk, indie rock 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. It was a center for the riot grrrl movement of the early 1990s, which featured Bikini Kill and Bratmobile. 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. 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, for ...
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K Records Artists
K, or k, is the eleventh letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''kay'' (pronounced ), plural ''kays''. The letter K usually represents the voiceless velar plosive. History The letter K comes from the Greek letter Κ (kappa), which was taken from the Semitic kaph, the symbol for an open hand. This, in turn, was likely adapted by Semitic tribes who had lived in Egypt from the hieroglyph for "hand" representing /ḏ/ in the Egyptian word for hand, ⟨ ḏ-r-t⟩ (likely pronounced in Old Egyptian). The Semites evidently assigned it the sound value instead, because their word for hand started with that sound. K was brought into the Latin alphabet with the name ''ka'' /kaː/ to differentiate it from C, named ''ce'' (pronounced /keː/) and Q, named ''qu'' and pronounced /kuː/. In the earliest Latin inscriptions, the letters C, K and Q were all u ...
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Rock Music Groups From Washington (state)
Rock most often refers to: * Rock (geology), a naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals or mineraloids * Rock music, a genre of popular music Rock or Rocks may also refer to: Places United Kingdom * Rock, Caerphilly, a location in Wales * Rock, Cornwall, a village in England * Rock, County Tyrone, a village in Northern Ireland * Rock, Devon, a location in England * Rock, Neath Port Talbot, a location in Wales * Rock, Northumberland, a village in England * Rock, Somerset, a location in England * Rock, West Sussex, a hamlet in Washington, England * Rock, Worcestershire, a village and civil parish in England United States * Rock, Kansas, an unincorporated community * Rock, Michigan, an unincorporated community * Rock, West Virginia, an unincorporated community * Rock, Rock County, Wisconsin, a town in southern Wisconsin * Rock, Wood County, Wisconsin, a town in central Wisconsin Elsewhere * Corregidor, an island in the Philippines also known as "The Rock" * Jamaica, a ...
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Heather Dunn
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Exclaim!
''Exclaim!'' is a Canadian music and entertainment publisher based in Toronto, which features coverage of new music across all genres with a special focus on Canadian and emerging artists. The monthly ''Exclaim!'' print magazine publishes seven issues per year, distributing over 103,000 copies to over 2,600 locations across Canada. In addition to music, the magazine also covers film and comedy. History ''Exclaim!'' began as a discussion among campus and community radio programmers at Ryerson's CKLN-FM in 1991. It was started by then-CKLN programmer Ian Danzig, together with other programmers and Toronto musicians. The goal of the publication was to support great Canadian music that was otherwise going unheralded. The group worked through 1991 to produce their first issue in April 1992, with monthly issues being produced since. Ian Danzig has been the publisher of the magazine since its start. The magazine had no official name for its first year of operations, with only th ...
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Capitol Theater (Olympia)
The Capitol Theater, at 206 East Fifth Avenue in downtown Olympia, Washington, was built in 1924. It was designed by architect Joseph Wohleb and has a capacity of 1,500. Since 1986, the Olympia Film Society operates the theater. The theater suffered major plaster damage to the ceiling during the 2001 Nisqually earthquake, but has since undergone repair and has re-opened. The marquee, a 1940 addition, was removed in January 2008. The theater played host to the International Pop Underground Convention, a Punk rock, punk and indie rock music festival in 1991, as well as the similarly themed Yoyo A Go Go in 1994, 1997, 1999, and 2001. Comedian Sam Miller's 2023 video and album ''Round Trip'' was recorded at the Capitol Theater. References External links Puget Sound Theater Organ Society which has some photographs of the theaterOlympia Film Societyofficial site. Includes schedules for the theater.The Olympian (newspaper) photo gallery of marquee removal
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Don't Tell Me Now
''Don't Tell Me Now'' (1996) is the second studio album by the American indie rock group The Halo Benders. The album was released on K Records in 1996. It was recorded at Dub Narcotic, in Olympia, Washington. The catalog number is KLP 46. Critical reception ''Trouser Press'' called the album "wonderful," praising the greatness of the band's "why-not imagination." ''CMJ New Music Monthly'' called it "spirited throughout" and "a generally worthy follow-up." Track listing All tracks by The Halo Benders The Halo Benders was a band formed in 1994 as a side project by Calvin Johnson (musician), Calvin Johnson of Beat Happening and Doug Martsch of Built to Spill. They released their first album, ''God Don't Make No Junk'', in 1994. They followed ... # "Phantom Power" – 1:51 # "Halo Bender" – 4:30 # "Mercury Blues" – 3:10 # "Bomb Shelter Pt.1" – 1:50 # "Bomb Shelter Pt.2" – 4:15 # "Volume Mode" – 3:18 # "Inbred Heart" – 2:13 # "Planned Obsolescence" – 4:40 # ...
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God Don't Make No Junk
''God Don't Make No Junk'' is the first studio album by the American indie rock band The Halo Benders. It was released in 1994 on K Records. The album was the first full-length release by the Halo Benders, a side project of Calvin Johnson (of Beat Happening) and Doug Martsch (of Built to Spill). Its catalogue number is KLP29. The album title references the black pride slogan of the 1970s. Critical reception ''Trouser Press'' called the album "a sampler of extraordinary diversity" and "a stack of strange gems." ''Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996'' praised "Canned Oxygen," calling it "a musical high point for both principal personalities." ''Spin Spin or spinning most often refers to: * Spin (physics) or particle spin, a fundamental property of elementary particles * Spin quantum number, a number which defines the value of a particle's spin * Spinning (textiles), the creation of yarn or thr ...'' listed the album as one of "Rock's 25 Great ...
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Steve Fisk
Steve Fisk is an American, Washington-based audio engineer, record producer and musician. As a musician, he has been in bands such as the instrumental alternative/indie rock band Pell Mell and the electronic band Pigeonhed. He has long been associated with the Pacific Northwest music scenes, including grunge and the Sub Pop indie record label. Career Fisk made his solo debut in 1980 with contributions to the compilations '' Let Them Eat Jellybeans!'', ''Sub Pop 5'' and ''Life Elsewhere''. In 1982 Fisk joined the Portland-based instrumental band Pell Mell, which issued records on SST. After a move to San Francisco, the group disbanded in 1985 and a few odd turns landed him in Ellensburg, Washington where he produced the Screaming Trees' '' Other Worlds''. In 1986, the group released ''Clairvoyance''. Soon his credits appeared regularly on releases from the Sub Pop and K labels including early releases from Beat Happening and Soundgarden. In 1990 Fisk moved to Seattle, ...
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