THIS WEEK IN AWESOME >>>
In case you don't get out much, or by the off chance this is your very first time online (tip: the porn is somewhere else) Olympia legend Calvin Johnson and his band the Hive Dwellers will be in T-Town Friday, playing a show with a talent Johnson knows plenty about as the main man behind K Records, Spencer Kelley of Basemint. Trevor Dickson of the Nightgowns is also on the bill, providing the proverbial icing to the indie rock cake. The event seems destined to be boffo, a term I'm pretty sure only Calvin Johnson himself can use with any legitimacy.
The show - an all ages event at Tacoma's Amocat Café - will benefit the Goddess of Commerce Gateway Project, a grassroots organization close to Amocat Café owner Morgan Alexander's heart hell-bent on improving the St. Helens area streetscape - and MOST IMPORTANTLY making sure local artist Marilyn Mahoney's Goddess of Commerce statue is installed near 6th Avenue and Baker Street.
It's very serious. So serious they brought in Calvin Johnson.
Anyway, this is awesome news - because the show is going to be fantastic. We'll have more in Thursday's paper, but until then whet your appetite with this piece of Internet scavenged goodness ...