(L to R) Maldives leader Jason Dodson, City Arts scribe Todd Hamm and Champagne Champagne MC Thomas Gray backstage at the Tractor Though I was pretty fried from an epic weekend, and opted out of the SIFF premier of Lynn Shelton’s $5 Cover: Seattle, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to catch sets by Champagne Champagne, Thee Satisfaction and the Lights at the Tractor during the screening’s afterparty. While most of the musicians that appear in Shelton’s film mingled with other local industry figures of note, including City of Seattle Office of Film and Music director James Keblas and Light in the Attic proprietor Matt Sullivan, the ladies of Thee Satisfaction were in fine form, bouncing all over the stage (I swear Cat has springs attached to the soles of her feet somehow) during their brief, 20-minute set, gleefully announcing at the end that they had booked their first tour and would be hitting the road later this spring.Backstage, the men of the Maldives were hanging with Pearl and Thomas Gray of Champagne Champagne, while Lights bassist Jeff Albertson tried to initiate a push-up contest and Champagne beat-master Mark Gajadhar regaled us with tales of getting Fugazi frontman Guy Picciotto hooked on rolling dice when his former band, the Blood Brothers were recording swan song Young Machetes with Picciotto behind the boards in D.C.Complete consensus around the film was, understandably, unattainable. Most of the performers I spoke with said they were relieved that it wasn’t as “cheesy” as they feared it might be, though a handful were clearly a bit self-conscious about some of the series’ more staged-scripted moments. What was evident was the civic pride on display, which is always a good thing, in my book. $5 Cover: Seattle premiers on MTV this June.