A still from a video purportedly showing the roastery mosh pit
Seattle Police were called to a reported mosh pit inside the Starbucks Roastery on Melrose at the base of Capitol Hill Sunday afternoon.
According to East Precinct radio reports, police were called to the massive Melrose at Pike coffee venue just after 3 PM to a report of some type of band playing music and a small group of dancers forming a mosh pit inside the popular tourist stop.
By the time police arrived, the disturbance had cleared and there were no signs of a band or any dancers.
The incident does not appear to be related to the Emerald City Comic Con that was underway nearby at the convention center.
On Reddit’s r/Seattle group, the folk punk band Sister Wife Sex Strike took credit for the stunt saying they planned the show as a pop-up for fans in celebration of the group’s new EP.
“We had a goal of getting through all 4 songs but had to leave after 2 because cops were called. videos coming soon :),” the group’s account posted, adding a “fuck starbucks” for good measure.
There were no arrests and no injuries reported.
This was reported on the Citizen App as a mosh pit.
This happened at the Starbucks Reserve Roastery in Seattle this afternoon. pic.twitter.com/BILFJJgEHc— DonaldBTacoma (@DonaldBTacoma) March 4, 2024
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Punk music is so boring and dead, no amount of flailing in a touristy coffee shop will resurrect it. Sorry kids – it’s over.
Not taking music recs from you. I hope you find what you’re looking for.
Sorry, but that is not punk music. Sounded more like a Fla ST football game.
Wait…”fuck Starbucks” but they’re gonna do a pop-up show for their fans there? Why would their fans even be there? One would assume they feel the same about Starbucks as the band.
Seems like it would have been better to do a pop-up in the park just a block west of Starbucks and play the whole set. But I guess “punk”
rockfolk?From the video it seemed like they had a surprise show where the surprise was to the venue, but they showed up with band and fans ready to go… In an age where the majority of the audience is online it seems like a fairly interesting and effective approach to essentially flash mob the main Starbucks tourist spot as their “music video”
Yeah, talk about hypocritical!
It reminds me of “antifa” cosplayers who hurl bricks at Nike stores while wearing Nikes. In short, they’re childish babies who feel like big boys when they stick it to the man. They think they’re punk, but they’re no different from radical republicans: If they can’t enjoy things, they want to make sure no one can enjoy things.
Welcome to Squaresville. Population: You.
Sort of, except these people are real.
What is punk to you?
You are spot-on. The fringe left and the far right have so much in common.
Band is these folx: https://sisterwifesexstrike.com/
“Anarchist Folk Band.”
Hates Starbucks, but uses Starbucks to launch their EP. Such anarchy.
You’re so edgy in your critique that you’re clearly displaying you don’t know anything about. But keep pretending to enlighten us! I have suffered your whining about Sawant and the kids and other Typical Republican Complaint Jar items for years on this blog.
A complete waste of police time.
The new punk rock is microblog commenting.
I love the fact that they’re an anarchist folk group using Starbucks, cell phones, tik tok, instagram, spotify AND this had me rolling on the floor, they copyrighted their name. Did they look up the definition of anarchist?
I’m sure they really showed those unionized minimum wage workers who’s boss, since Starbucks probably doesn’t even know about it
Yall ever done anything other talk about for any reason? No? Ha!
What do you mean? We’ve done lots of things. Come on you have to find it hilarious that a self described anarchist would copyright their band name.