Friday the 13th

What better way to start Friday the 13th than with a post about a black cat?

In the fall of 2005, the Black Cat celebrated its 12th year of bringing you the best in independent
live music in the Washington DC area. In the early ‘90s, DC suffered from a lack of good concert venues, especially spaces that catered to the area’s underground music scene. Hoping to revive the tradition of independent music in Washington, a group of investors (most of them musicians) opened the Black Cat in September 1993. Among the first bands to play were the Fall, Rancid, Morphine, Stereolab, Slant 6 and 9353. Since opening its doors, the Black Cat has been a home for local and national talent, thereby playing its own part in the explosion of indie rock that marked the last decade.

Now, I have never been there, but I do liken the idea of musiscians making money out of playing live music. And it is Friday the 13th. And they are named after a black cat.