Music of 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.

[1] 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.

[2] It was a center for the riot grrrl movement of the early 1990s, which featured Bikini Kill and Bratmobile.

[3] 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.