Scene and Heard

Impose Birthday Party at Cake Shop

Photos by Nate Dorr » With Crime Novels, Anamanaguchi, Graffiti Monsters, Rafter, and Rifle Recoil.

Text by Jeremy Krinsley
Posted on February 04, 2009

Derek Evers, da Birthday Boy! And Nathan from BKPA subbing on drums for Anamanaguchi for the night.

Anamanaguchi (It should be noted that our dear photographer Nate Dorr departed prior to their set in order to catch a different show across the river. Anyway, here's proof we're not just making it up. They played! Photo by Derek Evers.)

Not our birthday party, per se, but everyone's birthday born in January: in for free! Still, the gamut of 8-bit and electro pop and punk performed were curated by the birthday boy of the hour, the ever-wisening (and yes by that I mean getting older) Impose founder, Derek Evers. While we puzzled over why there were so many attractive girls packed into one nerd fest of a show (no, not because of the dude club that makes up Impose editorial), we generally blamed it on the shrill cuteness of dudes with Gameboys bouncing around as fourth members (see: Graffiti Monsters), original Nintendo game systems standing in for fourth members (see: Anamanaguchi), slick as a synth with a Rick James patch crooners (see: Rafter), one-man-destructo-dance does it all (for you, baby. . . see: Crime Novels), and a dude who came from Arlington and brought half a Cake Shop of adorers with him (see: Rifle Recoil).