The Saturday Knights are a Seattle

Seattle, Washington

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 and Tacoma

Tacoma, Washington

Tacoma is a mid-sized urban port city and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. The city is on Washington's Puget Sound, southwest of Seattle, northeast of the state capital, Olympia, and northwest of Mount Rainier National Park. The population was 198,397, according to...

, Washington-based musical group whose music spans many genres, ranging from hip hop

Hip hop

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 to pop music

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

. Their debut full-length CD, Mingle (2008) features guest appearances from the Dap-Kings

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings are a funk/soul band. They are signed to Daptone Records, where the Dap-Kings are the house band. They are spearheads of a revivalist movement that aims to capture the essence of funk/soul music as it was at its height in the mid-1960s to mid-1970s...

, Chris Ballew

Chris Ballew

Christopher "Chris" Ballew is a member of the alternative rock group The Presidents of the United States of America and performs as a children's artist under the pseudonym Caspar Babypants....

, Jack Endino

Jack Endino

Jack Endino is a producer and musician based in Seattle. Long associated with Seattle label Sub Pop and the grunge movement, Endino worked on seminal albums from bands such as Mudhoney, Soundgarden, and Nirvana...

, Holly Deye (the bassist from Lillydale), Kim Thayil

Kim Thayil

Kim Thayil is an American guitarist best known as the lead guitarist of the Seattle-based grunge band Soundgarden, which he cofounded with singer Chris Cornell and bassist Hiro Yamamoto in 1984...

, and Jim Horn

Jim Horn

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 & the Muscle Shoals Horns. This crew of guest artists allowed them to recreate samples they wanted to use on this album but could not for legal reasons.

Its members go by the names Tilson, Barfly, and DJ Suspence (Spencer Manio). The group originally included multi-instrumentalist Brian Weber (ex-Dub Narcotic Sound System

Dub Narcotic Sound System

Dub Narcotic Sound System is an Olympia, Washington based indie-funk musical group founded by Calvin Johnson, signed to K Records.-Origins:The band is named after Calvin Johnson's basement recording studio, Dub Narcotic....

), who went by the name of "B-Web" and who left the group shortly before their 2007 South by Southwest

South by Southwest

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 appearance.

A June 2007 piece in the Seattle Times states that the "genre-flouting" group have been praised by virtually all media in Seattle who cover popular music, but have yet to get geographically broader attention, partly (it conjectures) because their 2007 appearance at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas

Austin, Texas

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 has been their only non-Seattle-area performance to date.

Members

• Barfly - vocals
• Tilson - vocals
• DJ Suspence (Spencer Manio) - beats

Discography

• The Saturday Knights, Light In The Attic Records
  Light In The Attic Records
  Light In The Attic Records is an independent record label established in 2002 in Seattle, Washington by Matt Sullivan, known for its roster of reissue projects, and for its distribution catalog. . As reissue label, Light In The Attic has re-released works by artists such as Betty Davis, Serge...
  
   (2007), 4-song EP
• Mingle, Light In The Attic Records
  Light In The Attic Records
  Light In The Attic Records is an independent record label established in 2002 in Seattle, Washington by Matt Sullivan, known for its roster of reissue projects, and for its distribution catalog. . As reissue label, Light In The Attic has re-released works by artists such as Betty Davis, Serge...
  
  (2008), full-length CD

External links

• Light In The Attic Records band page
• Myspace page
• Andrew Matson, Live from Seattle, The Saturday Knights, Seattle Times, February 3, 2008 includes 10 photos.