Beat Happening

Description

Beat Happening was a 1980s twee pop band, the most popular of International Pop Underground's roster of influential alternative rock stars, and the corner stone of the indie rock scene still alive in Olympia, Washington. The band were early leaders in the American twee pop and lo-fi movements, noted for their use of primitive recording techniques, a complete disregard for the technical aspects of musicianship, and songs with subject matters of a childish or coy nature. The members of Beat Happening, Calvin Johnson, Bret Lunsford and Heather Lewis, met while attending Evergreen State College and began recording in 1983. None of the members had assigned roles within the band, though Calvin was generally regarded as their leader and Bret never sang as a member of the band, yet interestingly sang in his post-Beat Happening project D+, best known as the indie world's introduction to Phil Elverum of The Microphones. The band's basic line-up was drums, guitar and vocals, though when they...