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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...

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 Microsoft. And the year—if we still want to annually demarcate this temporal slurry—is 2022. T...