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Everyone, were back. Last night, the Neumos complex—Neumos, Barboza, and The Runaway—hosted their Official Reopening Party, swinging open their front doors and letting the (vaccinated) masses in for the first time in more than 15 months. In the scramble to prepare for the restrictions lift on June 30 and with many national acts booked in the fall, venues like the Neumos complex have concentrated on hiring local acts for the summer. JEFFREY MARTIN Seattleites are being welcomed back to liv...

How Seattle’s storied rock scene is shattering the genre’s white male image By Michael Rietmulder, The Seattle Times Published: May 31, 2021, 6:05am Share: SEATTLE — Rock ‘n’ Roll has a complicated history. Like nearly every form of American music, it was created by Black artists. Yet, Black artists have often been made to feel unwelcome in the genre or had their contributions erased. White men in particular have been overrepresented (to put it mildly) in almost every ...

SEATTLE — Rock ‘n’ Roll has a complicated history. Like nearly every form of American music, it was created by Black artists. Yet, Black artists have often been made to feel unwelcome in the genre or had their contributions erased. White men in particular have been overrepresented (to put it mildly) in almost every corner of what was the world’s most popular genre for generations. For years, it was — and in many circles, still is — all too common to attend a rock s...

photo by Melissa Wax “This is Seattle, we’re the most progressive city on the planet,” states the mayor of Seattle in the second episode of the dystopian web series While it’s a fictional story, the parallels between the Seattle of Bazzooka and the Seattle we know today are striking in their similarities. A mayor who sees “no color or gender or sexual identity, only love” while also ignoring the needs of and injustices towards people of color. An evil tech corporation that’s tra...

In the streaming series Bazzooka, which premiered last night on YouTube, a Seattle police state imposes a curfew at 6pm, courtesy a mayor who’s married to a local tech CEO (“the zillionaire who invented hands-free, auto, online shopping”). So a contingent of Black-led punks is taking to the streets and resisting. But everything here is a cognate: The mayor, played by Andrea Hays (Heidi from Twin Peaks), is not Jenny Durkan. The corporation is Tundra, not Amazon or Micr...

Danny Denial has announced a new monthly web series titled BAZZOOKA to launch at the end of the month. A follow-up to 2019’s independent film Eva Walker, and LÜCHI, Cozell Wilson, and Kylie Mooncakes for an apocalyptic tale of love, resistance, and the end of the world in the not-too-distant future. Set in June 2022 in a war-torn Seattle, a punk band of black anarchists battle familiar evils like tech billionaires, government officials, and overfunded police to take back their city. As...