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Bellingham is the largest city in and the county seat of Whatcom County in the U . S . state of Washington . It is the thirteenth - largest city in the state , with 85 , 146 residents in 2015 as estimated by the US Census , or sixth - largest by metropolitan area after Seattle - Tacoma , Spokane , the northern side of the Portland metropolitan area , the Tri - Cities , and Yakima . The boundaries of the city encompass the former towns of Fairhaven , Whatcom , Sehome , and Bellingham . Gravity Gets Things Done is the third ___MASK43___ by Bellingham , Washington indie rock band The Pale Pacific ( formerly The Pale ). The Pale Pacific ( formerly The Pale ) is an indie rock / powerpop band based in Bellingham , Washington . The band has released 4 full - length LPs , 1 EP , 1 split , and 1 full - length live recording . They are best known for the LPs " Gravity Gets Things Done " and " Urgency ", released worldwide on ___MASK66___ . The band has not broken up , but it rarely plays shows , and is currently finishing up a brand new full - length recording . As all four members have been busy doing many other things in recent years , the record was written at weekly sessions and has been recorded in their free time . Drummer Greg Swinehart recently spoke of the recording process at Sloucher . org , saying it ' s close to completion , but too soon to announce a release date . The band confirmed further on Facebook that they were still in the recording phase as of December 24 , 2015 . ___MASK66___ was an independent record label based in Long Beach , California , which closed in 2011 . Urgency is the fourth ___MASK43___ by Bellingham , Washington indie rock band The Pale Pacific ( formerly The Pale ) . Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United States and the ___MASK78___ in the 1980s . Indie rock encapsulates indie ___MASK97___ and lo - fi , among others . Originally used to describe record labels , the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock . As grunge and punk revival bands in the US , and then Britpop bands in the UK , broke into the mainstream in the 1990s , it came to be used to identify those acts that retained an outsider and underground perspective . In the 2000s , as a result of changes in the music industry and the growing importance of the Internet , some indie rock acts began to enjoy commercial success , leading to questions about its meaningfulness as a term . A county seat is an administrative center , seat of government , or capital city of a county or civil parish . The term is used in the United States , Canada , Romania , China and Taiwan . In the ___MASK78___ and Ireland , county towns have a similar function .