thursday agenda : party like it’s 2007
 cap to the hill, bringing 500 pine to 1000 pike. photo by cap to the hill |
- Before he was a Shin and a Vetiverian, Eric Johnson led the Fruit Bats into the hearts of many a fan of major key defiance. Or rather, in addition to being a part of those bands, he’s still true to his Fruit Battiness, so much so that he (or rather they) released a new album called the Ruminant Band early this month. Tonight, they’ll “choogle for you” at the Crocodile. With a pair of other multi-band types, Johnny & the Moon (Dante DeCaro of Wolf Parade) and Palmer Electric Co. (Erik Howk, Lashes, et c.) for $12, at 8 pm. [thecrocodile]
- In late 2007, a rundown block of much-loved bars, somewhat loved retail, and a quickly-forgotten grocery store [requiemforablock] were demolished to make way for condos that downgraded to luxury apartments and finally became a parking lot. Memories of that stretch run deep; so when the kids at Cap to the Hill won $10,000 from a marketing firm to throw a backpack party they chose the rebirth of the 500 block of Pine Street as inspiration. It’s somehow fitting, then, that their aspirations of Brigadooning the stretch back into existence are resulting in a rematerialization a few blocks east and one south, coinciding fairly accurately with the neighborhood’s shifted center of gravity and arriving after lots of hard work with a happy hour, specialty drinks, a taco truck, a skate ramp, and a dance floor in the Havana parking lot. $free, though you need a ticket or list spot and the patience to wait in what might be a long line to enter. [captothehill]
