Bibliography : HDDB : The Harvey Danger Database

Works cited

^HDW: Official band website (1999, 2000, 2001, 2005)
^BB: Official message boards (UBB, phpBB, MyBB)
^FLK: Flickr (HD’s, Aaron’s)
^RCT: Washington State Library archives of The Rocket (1993–2000)
^CDR: Unreleased Stuff CD-R liner notes by Jeff (2001)
^XMAS: Sometimes You Have to Work on Christmas (Sometimes) Enhanced CD (2004)
^JJL: Jeff’s old blog, Rock and Roll McDonald’s (2005)
^SCN: Sean’s old website, seannelson.net (2004–2005)
^SS: Seattle Sound interview w/ Sean (2006)
^10A: 10th Anniversary Public Spectacle program booklet (2008)
^TDM: Sean’s old blog, The Designated Mourner (2005–2011)
^DSS: Dead Sea Scrolls CD liner notes (2009)
^P&F: You Be the Pity, I’ll Be the Fear lyric book by Sean Nelson (2009)
^MMV: Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone? LP liner notes (2014)
^ALT: Alternative Press interview w/ Sean (2014)
^AD: Album Divers interview w/ Sean (2021)
^ASW: American Songwriter interview w/ Sean (2024)
^K25: King James Version 25th anniversary 2×LP liner notes (2025)
^25B: KJV Bonus Material notes (2025)
^WFA: Waveform analysis (original research)

Other resources

Harvey Danger’s artist page at Discogs.
University of Oregon Libraries archives of the Daily Emerald.
Back issues of the Portland Mercury.
Other archived periodicals through newspapers.com.
Archives of music and radio magazines at WorldRadioHistory.
The Internet Archive’s collections of media about, and created by, Harvey Danger; and the Wayback Machine’s (haphazard and imperfect) snapshots of the old message boards.

Tools used

audiowaveform to render waveform images of audio files.
id3v2 + mp4info to analyze metadata in MP3 and M4A files.
ripgrep to search large quantities of text.
waybackpack to download Wayback Machine archives.
Acorn image editor.
Fission audio editor.
Librewolf web browser + Ruffle Flash emulator.
Middleman static website generator.

Help wanted

There are notable gaps in this database. Perhaps most tragically, none of the official bulletin boards were ever properly archived, and an inordinate amount of contemporary material about (and directly from) the band has been permanently lost. Even the Wayback Machine only captured a fraction of what was, for more than a decade, the central nexus for Harvey Danger and their fans to exchange information.

An easier deficiency to correct is the current lack of details sourced from social media—especially Facebook and Instagram—where the lion’s share of HD fandom activity has taken place in the past decade or so. Unfortunately for this project, I don’t use any of those sites.

Finally, some of the information here (especially anything flagged with a little question mark) doesn’t have a source more authoritative than “I saw someone say this online once, providing no additional evidence themselves, and I have not been able to verify it one way or another.”

In short, if you have any Harvey Danger–related information that doesn’t already appear on the site, please email it to z@hddb.xyz. Likewise, if you have any corrections—things I’ve got wrong, and you’ve got a source that’s right—please contact me at your earliest convenience.