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Quasi

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Quasi is an American indie rock band formed in Portland, Oregon in 1993 by former spouses Sam Coomes (vocals, guitar, rocksichord, various keyboards, bass) and Janet Weiss (vocals and drums). [1]

50 relations: American Gong, Austin, Texas, Bass guitar, Bright Eyes (band), Bugskull, Built to Spill, Compact Cassette, Compact disc, Domino Recording Company, Drum kit, Duet, Early Recordings (Quasi album), Elliott Smith, Featuring "Birds", Field Studies (album), Fields and Streams, Guitar, Heatmiser, Hot Shit!, Human voice, Indie rock, Jandek, Janet Weiss, Joanna Bolme, John Doe, Keyboard instrument, Kill Rock Stars, Mole City, Oregon, Politics, Pond (American band), Portland, Oregon, Quasi, Quasi (fly), Quasi Self Boot 93–96, R&B Transmogrification, Rocksichord, Sam Coomes, Sleater-Kinney, South by Southwest, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Texas, The Sword of God (album), Touch and Go Records, Up Records, When the Going Gets Dark, Wiktionary, Wild Flag, 2003 invasion of Iraq.

American Gong

American Gong is the eighth album by Portland based indie rock band Quasi.

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Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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Bright Eyes (band)

Bright Eyes is an American indie rock band founded by singer-songwriter and guitarist Conor Oberst.

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Bugskull

Bugskull is an American musical group originally from Portland, Oregon that performed and recorded during the 1990s and early 2000s.

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Built to Spill

Built to Spill is an American indie rock band based in Boise, Idaho, United States.

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Compact Cassette

The Compact Audio Cassette (CAC) or Musicassette (MC), also commonly called the cassette tape or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback.

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Compact disc

Compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony and released in 1982.

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Domino Recording Company

Domino Recording Company (also known as Domino Records, generally known as Domino) is a British independent record label based in London.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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Duet

A duet is a musical composition for two performers in which the performers have equal importance to the piece, often a composition involving two singers or two pianists.

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Early Recordings (Quasi album)

Early Recordings is a compilation album by the American indie band Quasi.

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Elliott Smith

Steven Paul "Elliott" Smith (August 6, 1969 – October 21, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician.

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Featuring "Birds"

Featuring "Birds" is the third studio album by American indie rock band Quasi.

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Field Studies (album)

Field Studies is an album by the American indie band Quasi.

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Fields and Streams

Fields and Streams is a double CD compilation album released by the label Kill Rock Stars on May 7, 2002.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Heatmiser

Heatmiser was an American alternative rock band, formed in Portland, Oregon in October 1991.

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Hot Shit!

Hot Shit is the fifth studio album by indie rock band Quasi.

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Human voice

The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, such as talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, etc.

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Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1970s.

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Jandek

Jandek is the musical project of Corwood Industries, a record label operating out of Houston, Texas.

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Janet Weiss

Janet Lee Weiss (born September 24, 1965) is a rock drummer, best known as a member of Sleater-Kinney and currently also a member of Quasi.

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Joanna Bolme

Joanna Bolme (born April 1, 1968) is a multi-instrumentalist (primarily bass guitar) and recording engineer who works with several indie rock bands and artists, mainly in the Pacific Northwest.

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John Doe

"John Doe", "John Roe" or "Richard Roe" (for men), "Jane Doe" or "Jane Roe" (for women), and "Baby Doe", "Janie Doe" or "Johnny Doe" (for children), or just "Doe" or "Roe" are multiple-use names that have two distinct usages.

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Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers.

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Kill Rock Stars

Kill Rock Stars is an independent record label founded in 1991 by Slim Moon and Tinuviel Sampson, and based in both Olympia, Washington, and Portland, Oregon.

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Mole City

Mole City is the ninth album by the American indie band, Quasi.

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Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region on the West Coast of the United States.

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Politics

Politics (from Politiká, meaning "affairs of the cities") is the process of making decisions that apply to members of a group.

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Pond (American band)

Pond was a band from Portland, Oregon.

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Portland, Oregon

Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and the seat of Multnomah County.

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Quasi

Quasi is an American indie rock band formed in Portland, Oregon in 1993 by former spouses Sam Coomes (vocals, guitar, rocksichord, various keyboards, bass) and Janet Weiss (vocals and drums).

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Quasi (fly)

Quasi is a genus of small-headed flies in the family Acroceridae.

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Quasi Self Boot 93–96

Quasi Self Boot 93–96 is the compilation release by the American indie band Quasi.

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R&B Transmogrification

R&B Transmogrification is an album by the American indie band Quasi.

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Rocksichord

The Rock-Si-Chord (sometimes incorrectly referred to as Rocksichord or Roxichord) is an electronic keyboard invented in 1967 to approximate the sound of the harpsichord.

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Sam Coomes

Samuel J. Coomes (born 1964) is an American musician, and one-half of the Portland-area indie band Quasi, along with drummer and ex-wife Janet Weiss.

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Sleater-Kinney

Sleater-Kinney is an American rock band that formed in Olympia, Washington, in 1994.

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South by Southwest

South by Southwest (abbreviated as SXSW and colloquially referred to as South By) is an annual conglomerate of film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas, United States.

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Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks

Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks is a rock band consisting of Stephen Malkmus, Mike Clark, Joanna Bolme, and Jake Morris.

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Ted Leo and the Pharmacists

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists (sometimes written Ted Leo/Pharmacists, Ted Leo + Pharmacists, or TL/Rx) are an American rock band formed in 1999 in Washington, D.C. They have released six full-length studio albums and have toured internationally.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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The Sword of God (album)

The Sword of God is the 2001 album by the Portland indie-rock duo Quasi, released on Touch and Go Records in the United States, and Domino Records in the U.K.

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Touch and Go Records

Touch and Go Records is an American independent record label based in Chicago, Illinois.

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Up Records

Up Records was a Seattle based independent record label founded in 1994 by Chris Takino and Rich Jensen.

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When the Going Gets Dark

When the Going Gets Dark is an album by Quasi.

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Wiktionary

Wiktionary is a multilingual, web-based project to create a free content dictionary of all words in all languages.

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Wild Flag

Wild Flag was an American four-piece indie rock/post-punk supergroup based in Portland, Oregon and Washington, D.C..

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2003 invasion of Iraq

The 2003 invasion of Iraq was the first stage of the Iraq War (also called Operation Iraqi Freedom).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi

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