So Pitted - Neumos, Capitol Hill Block Party, Seattle WA - July 26, 2015

[Seattle WA] Awful. Weird to be weird. Can’t craft a song. Or won’t. They reminded me of Captain Beefheart and I hate Captain Beefheart. People can stop pretending Beefheart is proto-punk – I don’t understand why people equate weirdness with punk music when punk music is simple, straightforward, three chords. Annoying music is art rock ART ROCK. Anyway, in the one bright point of their music, it was sludgy – this was the beginning of my realization that the 90s are still alive in the Pacific Northwest. They’d switch off lead singers and one of the fools had something like a mini fluorescent toilet plunger stuck on his forehead. It’s possible I was wary because of the crazy negative reviews on this entire event I made the mistake of reading right before leaving the house – basically massacre-ing hipsters, drunk hipsters, young people, drunk young people. One band member was wearing a Sublime shirt – maybe ironically – maybe not – I stopped caring. I was mostly watching the crowd of youngsters pretending like they liked them. Kathleen Richards, Seattle’s The Stranger: “In theory music festivals expose you to a bunch of different bands that you normally wouldn't pay to see individually - too often the music festival will just make you want to kill a teenager.” I did like the venue – the area felt like home, like Austin.