Beat Happening

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Beat Happening is an influential American indie pop band from Olympia, Washington, known for its minimalist, lo-fi sound and key role in the early indie and DIY music scenes.

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Label Occurrences
Beat Happening canonical 10

Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf indie pop band
musical group
activeYearsEndYear 1992
activeYearsStartYear 1982
albumReleaseYear Black Candy (1989)
Dreamy (1991)
Jamboree (1988)
You Turn Me On (1992)
associatedAct Dub Narcotic Sound System
K Records
The Go Team
basedIn Olympia, Washington
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
debutAlbum Beat Happening self-link
debutAlbumReleaseYear 1985
describedBySource music critics
genre indie pop
indie rock
lo-fi
punk rock
twee pop
hasAlbum Beat Happening self-link
Black Candy
Dreamy
Jamboree
You Turn Me On
hasCharacteristic DIY ethos
amateurish aesthetic
minimal instrumentation
hasInfluencedGenre indie pop
lo-fi
twee pop
hasMember Bret Lunsford
Calvin Johnson
Heather Lewis NERFINISHED
hasPart Bret Lunsford
Calvin Johnson
Heather Lewis NERFINISHED
influenced indie pop bands
lo-fi artists
twee pop bands
languageOfWorkOrName English
locationOfFormation Olympia, Washington
movement DIY music scene
indie music scene
notableFor influence on indie pop
lo-fi production
minimalist sound
originatesFrom Olympia, Washington
recordLabel K Records
Sub Pop

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Beat Happening
Description of subject: Beat Happening is an influential American indie pop band from Olympia, Washington, known for its minimalist, lo-fi sound and key role in the early indie and DIY music scenes.

Referenced by (10)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

K Records hasArtist Beat Happening
Beat Happening hasAlbum Beat Happening self-link
Beat Happening debutAlbum Beat Happening self-link
The Microphones associatedAct Beat Happening
The Halo Benders associatedBand Beat Happening
Calvin Johnson notableWork Beat Happening
Calvin Johnson memberOf Beat Happening
Calvin Johnson associatedAct Beat Happening
Young Marble Giants influenced Beat Happening