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International Women's Day: KEXP DJs Share Their Bandcamp Friday Picks KEXP Being a woman is complicated. As a woman in mostly dude-dominated industries, I’ve tried to hide the fact that I’m a person who could maybe procreate one day for my whole adult career. So when I showed up nine months pregnant for my third (but first in-person) interview at KEXP, I thought “Well, here goes nothing!”    Spoiler: They hired me! I had a baby in March 2020 (amidst not much other stress, really), went on maternity leave, and started at KEXP in June. I quickly realized how many wildly t...

× By Michael Rietmulder, The Seattle Times Published: February 28, 2021, 6:00am Share: 2 Photos Seattle rockers Ayron Jones, left, and Eva Walker of The Black Tones, shown here at Jimi Hendrix Park in Seattle last year, both have support from Seattle musical heavy hitters. (Steve Ringman/Seattle Times/TNS) Photo Gallery SEATTLE — It was a one-in, one-out situation at the Capitol Hill Elysian Brewing. The capacity crowd packed into the cozy brewpub to revel in two complementary things Seattle has always done well — craft beer and loud guitars. Thunderpussy was yet...

SEATTLE — It was a one-in, one-out situation at the Capitol Hill Elysian Brewing. The capacity crowd packed into the cozy brewpub to revel in two complementary things Seattle has

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...