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To kick off Halloween weekend, Velvet Q played its off-kilter brand of avant-garde art-punk rock at Factory Luxe, part of the old Rainier Brewery complex off Airport Way. The last time I saw the band, its bass player Mallory wore an alien mask for just about the entire set. So for a Velvet Q-headlined Halloween party, my expectations for weirdness were high—and I wasn't disappointed. Friday night, Velvet Q's Halloween-themed “There’s a Light in the...

Plus: goth-pop @ Cafe Racer and experimental theater @ On the Boards.

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 corner of what was the world’s most popular genre for generations. For years, it was — and in ma...

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 show and see three bands, each made up of white dudes with guitars. Seattle, historically, is no exce...

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 trampling local businesses, especially those run by people of color. BIPOC youth standing up for themse...