Seattle Kraken Drop House Band For Dissing Jeff Bezos

Seattle supergroup Who Is She? — aka members of Tacocat, Chastity Belt, and Lisa Prank — have been disinvited from their gig as “home band” at Seattle Kraken video games going down over the weekend. On Wednesday, the group performed in between intervals at Local weather Pledge Area (as deliberate) throughout an ice hockey match between the Kraken and Vancouver Canucks. They performed a model of Le Tigre’s “My My Metrocard” with the lyrics modified to “My My Orca Card.”

“Oh no, Jeffrey Bezos/ He’s such, a complete jerk/ Shut down, all of the bookstores/ Billionaires don’t work,” the brand new lyrics went. (The 1999 authentic takes goal at Rudy Giuliani — nonetheless holds up.)

Anyway, Bezos is the CEO of Amazon, and Amazon has the naming rights at Local weather Pledge Area. “In an unlucky flip of occasions, apparently we’re not welcome again at Jeff Bezos’ Local weather Pledge Area for tonight and tomorrow’s hockey video games,” Who Is She? tweeted on Friday. “Glad we obtained to play our tackle this @letigreworld track, we had a blast. Sorry to anybody who hoped to see us play. Go Kraken!”

As for a better timeline of occasions, Who Is She? have been reportedly uninvited when Kraken advised them “management determined you’re not an excellent match for hockey,” the band tells Stereogum. Their assertion to followers is beneath.