Sam Coomes is a Cascadia based musician/producer, half of the long-running underground pop band Quasi (along with Janet Weiss {Sleater-Kinney}), & synth player in Jon Spencer and the HITmakers.   SC  has also toured &/or recorded with Built To Spill, Elliott Smith, Jandek, The Go-Betweens, Marissa Anderson, & a long list of musicians of lesser media visibility, & is also a member of heavy prog/experimental ensemble Pink Mountain (not to be confused with The Pink Mountaintops {unfortunate happenstance}), Crock - a duo also featuring Spencer Seim (Hella), & Deep Fried Boogie Band.  He has collaborated with visual artist/musician Chris Johanson on soundtracks to art installations (Ensemble IS) & scored several films by Portland based underground filmmaker Vanessa Renwick.  SC  has toured internationally as a solo artist, first under the name Blues Goblins, & later under his more mundane given name.  Oddly, SC is a two time member or the Oregon Music Hall of Fame (it exists), as a member of Quasi & also as a member of Heatmiser.

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SC DISCOGRAPHY (albums unless otherwise noted)

Donner Party - Donner Party (1987, Cryptovision), Donner Party – Donner Party (1988, Pitch-a-Tent/Rough Trade), Donner Party – Complete Recordings 1987-1989 (2000, Innerstate ), Motorgoat 7” ep (1993 Red Rover), Motorgoat split 7” w/Bugskull (1994 Red Rover), Quasi – Early Recordings (1995, Key-Op {reissue 2001 Touch & Go}), Quasi – R&B Transmogrification (1997, Up, reissued by Sub Pop 2015), Quasi – Featuring “Birds” (1998, Up/Domino, reissued by Sub Pop 2015), Quasi – Field Studies (1999, Up/Domino, reissued by Sub Pop 2015), Quasi – The Sword of God (2001, Touch & Go/Domino), Quasi – All Bent Out of Shape/Blood & Dirt Tour 7” (2001, Thee Quasi Imprint), Quasi – Sword of God/Nothing Nowhere 7” (2001 Domino), Quasi – Hot Shit (2003, Touch & Go/Domino), Quasi – When The Going Gets Dark (2006, Touch & Go/Domino), Quasi – American Gong (2010, Kill Rock Stars/Domino), Quasi – Mole City (2013, Kill Rock Stars/Domino), Quasi – Interprets (2013 CDR), Quasi – Battle Hymns (Compilation) (2017, s/r digital only), Quasi - Breaking the Balls of History (2023, Sub Pop), Heatmiser – Mic City Sons (1996 Virgin), Elliott Smith – Figure 8 (2000, Dreamworks), Elliott Smith – Pretty (Ugly Before) 7” (2003 Suicide Squeeze), Elliott Smith – From a Basement on a Hill (2004, Anti/Domino), Built to Spill – Keep it Like a Secret (1999, Warner Brothers), Built to Spill – Live (2000, Warner Brothers), Built to Spill – Ancient Melodies of the Future (2001, Warner Brothers), Built to Spill – You in Reverse (2006, Warner Brothers), Built to Spill – Untethered Moon (2015, Warner Brothers), The Go-Betweens – The Friends of Rachel Worth (2000, Circus), The Go-Betweens – Going Blind CD single (2000, Circus), No.2 No Memory (1999, Chainsaw {reissue 2015 Jackpot}), No.2 What Does Good Luck Bring? (2002, In Music We Trust {reissue 2017 Jealous Butcher}), Pink Mountain – Pink Mountain (2005, Frenetic), Pink Mountain – Pink Mountain double LP (2009, Sickroom), Jandek – Portland Thursday (2009, Corwood), Jandek – Seattle Friday (2011, Corwood),Blues Goblins – Blues Goblins (2002, Off),  Crock – Grok (2011, Jackpot), Deep Fried Boogie Band split 7” w/Colossal yes – Frederic & Bill (2012, Jackpot), Deep Fried Boogie Band – Songs in Conceptual Art (Compilation)(2012, Teardrops/Awesome Vistas), Deep Fried Boogie Band – Doughnut Make My Brown Eyes Blue/(Return of the )Tokyo Cowboy (2014, Voodoo Doughnuts), Ensemble IS – IS (2008, Awesome Vistas), Ensemble IS – The Sound Of Energy In Space, The Space of Energy In Life (2010, Awesome Vistas), Ensemble IS – Alright Alright (2011, Awesome Vistas), Sam Coomes – Bugger Me (2016, No Quarter/Domino), Sam Coomes – Portland Edition (Compilation) (2017, American Leather), Jon Spencer - Spencer Sings theHits (2018, In the Red), Sam Coomes – True Death (2020, no label), Jon Spencer & the HITmakers - Spencer Gets it Lit (2022, In the Red), J.D. Pinkus - Grow a Pear (2024, Shimmydisc)