- Kelly O
- SSDD's Kennedy Carda, eating the microphone.
• Kelly O caught new band SSDD (which may stand for "Smash Shit Do Drugs" or "Slippery Slope Downward Dog"—depends on who you ask) playing a blazing-hot first show ever at the newly remodeled (but seemingly NOT finished) Sunset Tavern. Also, it's October. Why are so many bars still so hot? This included the Moore Theatre this past Saturday at the Genius Awards where everyone seemed to be sweating their balls off in their tuxedo pants.
• Speaking of Genius! Congrats to [suspenseful harp noise]... Industrial Revelation, the winners of the 2014 Genius Award in music! Also congrats to nominees Hollow Earth Radio and Erik Blood—I have never had a harder time voting!
- Kelly O
- Genius winners Industrial Revelation did an awful lot of headbanging for a mostly-jazz band during their performance at the Moore!
• Also on Saturday at the Moore, the Seattle Rock Orchestra made my ears do a double take by doing a spot-on cover of Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off." Didn't that just come out?
- Kelly O
- Spotted: Spontaneous kissing backstage at the Genius Awards. Can you tell who these two are?
• Other than dealing with a gnarly cold I can't shake, the other thing I've been doing this weekend is listening to the new Weezer album, Everything Will Be Alright in the End. I'm sort of fascinated by it because of all the Sudafed it's weird and over-produced with all kinds of dueling guitars and hilarious noodly solos, but much more like older Weezer than whatever they were going for with the last three albums. So far, I think there are two good songs on it—this jam called "Cleopatra" where he mispronounces Cleopatra and then does the 5x times tables, and the standard-issue heartbreaker "Go Away" about cheating, featuring Bethany from Best Coast. (Also, LOL, Rivers Cuomo was apparently surprised that returning to their older style would make fans happy?)
• Oh! I guess another important part of this weekend included that I turned 30 yesterday. I don't feel different, but perhaps more emotional than normal? A partial list of the things that made me actually teary-eyed shortly before my birthday: An article about Freddie Mercury in an old issue of Rolling Stone, a friend's pet beta fish who I thought was dead but was really just napping, and the fact that Allison Wolfe of Bratmobile goes to house shows in LA put on by young women in the DIY punk scene.
