I asked Renee Seamount from Renee’s Hair Shop about getting emo-girl bangs cut into my shaggy ‘do.  In her characteristic way, she smiled and laughed, “No!”



We talked about emo, screamo, thrash, and hardcore; back when we were wee, there was punk, metal, or new wave — now those basics have sprouted roots with tentacles on ’em so that explaining a genre of music can be challenging at best. 



Especially for Seamount, whose teen-aged nephews, in separate bands, both play loud guitar-driven music.



Though Seamount says each band kind of sounds the same, she points out that the younger nephew’s band, Toxic Peanut, is “adorable” with songs that aren’t too long to tax listeners (30 second soundbites) and topics near to all our hearts: songs like “F*** the Rain” and “Momma’s Cookies” call to mind universal, elemental feelings of frustration and joy, and isn’t that what music, and hair, is all about?



As for me and my hair, frustration is the fact that I can never get the curls to look as cool as Seamount can.  Joy is the fact that my color rocks the subtly funky spectrum. — Jessica Corey Butler



[Renee’s Hair Shop, 821 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, 253.627.2729]