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Tobi Vail

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Tobi Celeste Vail (born July 20, 1969) is an independent musician, music critic and feminist from Olympia, Washington. [1]

91 relations: Alan Licht, Auburn, Washington, Barcelona, Bass guitar, Becca Albee, Bikini Kill, Billy Karren, Blog, Blogger (service), Bratmobile, Brighton, Bristol, Bumpity, Calvin Johnson (musician), Cassette culture, Cat Power, Chainsaw Records, Chicks on Speed, Compact Cassette, Corporate media, Counterculture, Dave Grohl, Disc jockey, DIY ethic, Drum kit, Ebullition Records, EMusic, Eugene, Oregon, Evergreen State College, Feminism, Gender studies, Grunge, Guitar, Harvard University, Huggy Bear (band), Independent music, Independent record label, Indie rock, Janice Radway, Justin Trosper, K Records, KAOS (FM), Kathi Wilcox, Kathleen Hanna, Kill Rock Stars, Kurt Cobain, Ladyfest, Lead guitar, Lead vocalist, Lookout! Records, ..., Madrid, Melvins, Michelle Mae, Molly Neuman, Music criticism, Music of Olympia, Naselle, Washington, Nirvana (band), Noise rock, Olympia, Washington, Outpunk, Partyline, Positive Force, Punk house, Punk rock, Pussy Riot, Riot grrrl, Single (music), Sleater-Kinney, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Some Velvet Sidewalk, Subculture, Teen Spirit (deodorant), The Beatles, The Frumpies, The Go Team, The Old Haunts, The PeeChees, The Punk Singer, Tumblr, United Kingdom, Unwound, Violence against women, Viva Knievel (band), West Coast of the United States, Wiiija, Wipers, Yoko Ono, Youth detention center, Zine, ZineWiki. Expand index (41 more) »

Alan Licht

Alan Licht (born June 6, 1968) is an American guitarist and composer, whose work combines elements of pop, noise, free jazz and minimalism.

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Auburn, Washington

Auburn is a city in King County, with a small portion in Pierce County, Washington, United States.

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Barcelona

Barcelona is a city in Spain.

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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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Becca Albee

Becca Albee is an American musician and visual artist who was a founding member of the band Excuse 17 which was an early pioneer in the Riot grrrl and Third-wave feminism movements.

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Bikini Kill

Bikini Kill was an American punk rock band formed in Olympia, Washington, in October 1990.

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Billy Karren

William Francis "Billy" Karren is an American musician, best known as the lead guitarist of the punk/riot grrrl band Bikini Kill, formed by Kathleen Hanna, with Karren, Tobi Vail and Kathi Wilcox.

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Blog

A blog (a truncation of the expression "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries ("posts").

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Blogger (service)

Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries.

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Bratmobile

Bratmobile was an American punk band.

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Brighton

Brighton is a seaside resort on the south coast of England which is part of the city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, 47 miles (75 km) south of London.

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Bristol

Bristol is a city and county in South West England with a population of 456,000.

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Bumpity

Bumpity was an American children's television show that aired locally in the Portland, Oregon area on the ABC affiliate KATU, from 1971 to 1985.

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Calvin Johnson (musician)

Calvin Johnson (born November 1, 1962) is an American guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, music producer, and disc jockey born in Olympia, Washington, US.

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Cassette culture

Cassette culture (or the cassette underground) refers to the practices surrounding amateur production and distribution of recorded music that emerged in the late 1970s via home-made audio cassettes.

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Cat Power

Charlyn Marie "Chan" Marshall (born January 21, 1972), better known by her stage name Cat Power, is an American singer-songwriter, musician, occasional actress, and model.

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Chainsaw Records

Chainsaw Records is an independent record label run by Donna Dresch that is devoted to Queercore bands.

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Chicks on Speed

Chicks on Speed is a feminist music and fine art ensemble, formed in Munich in 1997, when members Australian Alex Murray-Leslie and New Yorker Melissa Logan met at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts.

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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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Corporate media

Corporate media is a term which refers to a system of mass media production, distribution, ownership, and funding which is dominated by corporations and their CEOs.

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Counterculture

A counterculture (also written counter-culture) is a subculture whose values and norms of behavior differ substantially from those of mainstream society, often in opposition to mainstream cultural mores.

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Dave Grohl

David Eric Grohl (born January 14, 1969) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and film director.

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Disc jockey

A disc jockey, often abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays existing recorded music for a live audience.

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DIY ethic

DIY ethic refers to the ethic of self-sufficiency through completing tasks without the aid of a paid expert.

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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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Ebullition Records

Ebullition Records is an American independent record label and distro in Goleta, California.

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EMusic

eMusic is an online music and audiobook store that operates by subscription.

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Eugene, Oregon

Eugene is a city of the Pacific Northwest in the U.S. state of Oregon.

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Evergreen State College

The Evergreen State College is a public liberal arts college and a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges, located in Olympia, Washington, U.S. Founded in 1967, Evergreen was formed to be an experimental and non-traditional college.

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Feminism

Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve political, economic, personal, and social equality of sexes.

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Gender studies

Gender studies is a field for interdisciplinary study devoted to gender identity and gendered representation as central categories of analysis.

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Grunge

Grunge (sometimes referred to as the Seattle sound) is a subgenre of alternative rock and a subculture that emerged during the in the Pacific Northwest U.S. state of Washington, particularly in Seattle and nearby towns.

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Guitar

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

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Huggy Bear (band)

Huggy Bear were an English riot grrrl band, formed in 1991 and based in Brighton.

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Independent music

Independent music (often referred to as indie music or indie) is music produced independently from commercial record labels or their subsidiaries, a process that may include an autonomous, do-it-yourself approach to recording and publishing.

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Independent record label

An independent record label (or indie label) is a record label that operates without the funding of or outside major record labels.

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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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Janice Radway

Janice Radway (born January 29, 1949) is an American literary and cultural studies scholar.

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Justin Trosper

Justin Trosper is an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter, born in Olympia, Washington.

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K Records

K Records is an independent record label in Olympia, Washington founded in 1982.

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KAOS (FM)

KAOS (89.3 FM) is a hybrid college-community radio station licensed to The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.

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Kathi Wilcox

Kathi Lynn Wilcox (born November 19, 1969) is an American musician.

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Kathleen Hanna

Kathleen Hanna (born November 12, 1968) is an American singer, musician, artist, feminist activist, pioneer of the feminist punk riot grrrl movement, and punk zine writer.

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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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Kurt Cobain

Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – April 5, 1994) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician.

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Ladyfest

Ladyfest is a community-based, not-for-profit global music and arts festival for feminist and women artists.

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Lead guitar

Lead guitar is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure.

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Lead vocalist

The lead vocalist (or main vocalist, lead vocals or lead singer) in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent in a performance where multiple voices may be heard.

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Lookout! Records

Lookout! Records was an independent record label, initially based in Laytonville, California and later in Berkeley, focusing on punk rock.

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Madrid

Madrid is the capital of Spain and the largest municipality in both the Community of Madrid and Spain as a whole.

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Melvins

The Melvins are an American rock band that formed in 1983 in Montesano, Washington.

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Michelle Mae

Michelle Mae is an American musician from the state of Washington, who is known for playing in rock 'n' roll groups such as The Make-Up and Weird War.

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Molly Neuman

Molly Neuman (born June 18, 1972) is a musician originally from the Washington, D.C. area who has performed in such influential bands as Bratmobile, The Frumpies, and the PeeChees.

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Music criticism

The Oxford Companion to Music defines music criticism as 'the intellectual activity of formulating judgements on the value and degree of excellence of individual works of music, or whole groups or genres'.

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Music of Olympia

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.

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Naselle, Washington

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Nirvana (band)

Nirvana was an American rock band formed by lead singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1987.

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Noise rock

Noise rock (sometimes called noise punk) is a diverse style of experimental rock employing noise music elements, which spun off from punk rock in the 1980s.

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Olympia, Washington

Olympia is the capital of the U.S. state of Washington and the county seat of Thurston County. It was incorporated on January 28, 1859. The population was 46,479 as of the 2010 census, making it the 24th largest city in the state. The city borders Lacey to the east and Tumwater to the south. Olympia is a cultural center of the southern Puget Sound region. Olympia is located southwest of Seattle, the largest city in the state of Washington.

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Outpunk

Outpunk enjoys the distinction of being the first record label entirely devoted to queer punk bands.

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Partyline

Partyline is a Washington, D.C.-based punk rock band consisting of singer/songwriter Allison Wolfe (Bratmobile, Cold Cold Hearts, Dig Yr. Grave, Deep Lust, Hawnay Troof, etc.), guitarist Angela Melkisethian (The Hell Mutts, Hott Beat, The Savage Boys and Girls Club, Troll Tax), drummer Crystal Bradley, and touring drummer Gene Vincent Melkisethian (The Hell Mutts, The Savage Boys and Girls Club, No Justice).

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Positive Force

Positive Force DC is an activist organization founded in 1985 by members of the punk community in Washington, D.C. It has organized hundreds of benefit concerts for community and activist groups, and worked alongside Fugazi, Bikini Kill, Nation of Ulysses, Girls Against Boys, Q and Not U and other bands arising from the capital’s punk scene.

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Punk house

A punk house is a dwelling occupied by members of the punk subculture.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

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Pussy Riot

Pussy Riot is a Russian feminist protest punk rock group based in Moscow.

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Riot grrrl

Riot grrrl is an underground feminist punk movement that began in the early 1990s in Washington state (particularly Olympia) and the greater Pacific Northwest.

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Single (music)

In music, a single, record single or music single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record.

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Sleater-Kinney

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

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Smells Like Teen Spirit

"Smells Like Teen Spirit" is a song by American rock band Nirvana.

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Some Velvet Sidewalk

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Subculture

A subculture is a group of people within a culture that differentiates itself from the parent culture to which it belongs, often maintaining some of its founding principles.

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Teen Spirit (deodorant)

Teen Spirit is a deodorant, originally sold by Mennen, then Colgate-Palmolive (after Colgate-Palmolive acquired Mennen in 1992).

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.

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The Frumpies

The Frumpies were a lo-fi punk rock band formed in 1992 Olympia, Washington.

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The Go Team

The Go Team was a 1980s band from Olympia, Washington, consisting of Tobi Vail and Calvin Johnson of Beat Happening.

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The Old Haunts

The Old Haunts were a rock music band formed in 2001 in Olympia, Washington.

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The PeeChees

The PeeChees (aka The PeeChee All-Season Sensations) were a punk band formed in 1994 by Lookout! Records co-owners Christopher Appelgren (The Pattern, Bumblescrump, The Lefties), Molly Neuman (Bratmobile, The Frumpies, Love or Perish), along with guitarist Carlos Cañedo (Rice, Love or Perish, Beehive & The Baracudas), and bass player Rop Vasquez (Rice, Semi-Automatic, The Lefties).

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The Punk Singer

The Punk Singer is a 2013 documentary film about feminist singer Kathleen Hanna who fronted the bands Bikini Kill and Le Tigre, and who was a central figure in the riot grrrl movement.

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Tumblr

Tumblr is a microblogging and social networking website founded by David Karp in 2007, and owned by Oath Inc. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Unwound

Unwound was an American post-hardcore band based in Tumwater/Olympia, Washington.

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Violence against women

Violence against women (VAW), also known as gender-based violence and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) is, collectively, violent acts that are primarily or exclusively committed against women and girls.

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Viva Knievel (band)

Viva Knievel was a punk rock and riot grrrl band in Olympia, Washington in the early 1990s.

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West Coast of the United States

The West Coast or Pacific Coast is the coastline along which the contiguous Western United States meets the North Pacific Ocean.

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Wiiija

Wiiija was a British independent record label founded in 1988 by staff from the Rough Trade Shop in Notting Hill, London.

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Wipers

Wipers was a punk rock group formed in Portland, Oregon in 1977 by guitarist Greg Sage, along with drummer Sam Henry and bassist Dave Koupal.

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Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono (小野 洋子, born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist who is also known for her work in performance art and filmmaking.

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Youth detention center

In American criminal justice systems a youth detention center, also known as a juvenile detention center (JDC),Stahl, Dean, Karen Kerchelich, and Ralph De Sola.

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Zine

A zine (short for magazine or fanzine) is a small-circulation self-published work of original or appropriated texts and images, usually reproduced via photocopier.

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ZineWiki

ZineWiki is an open-source online wiki devoted to zines, fanzines, small press publications, chapbooks, and independent media.

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References

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

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