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.
In the streaming series
Bazzooka, which premiered last night on YouTube, a Seattle police state imposes a curfew at 6pm, courtesy a mayor whoâs married to a local tech CEO (âthe zillionaire who invented hands-free, auto, online shoppingâ). 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 yearâif we still want to annually demarcate this temporal slurryâis 2022.
There are a couple reasons for this alternate world, says Danny Denial, who wrote and directed the show (you may know Denial as the musician behind last yearâs album