Fruit Bats (band) Bats had begun to evolve into a band with the inclusion of I Rowboat members Dan Strack and Brian Belval and in 2001, their debut record Echolocation was released on Califone's imprint, Perishable Records. Tours followed with the likes of Modest Mouse and The Shins. Fruit Bats signed with Sub Pop in 2002 and have released four albums with the label including "Mouthfuls" in 2003, "Spelled in Bones" in 2005, "The Ruminant Band" in 2009 and "Tripper" in 2011. Johnson also joined The Shins in 2009. Their song "Humbug Mountain Song" spurred new fan activity. In an interview with "Reverb
Vampire Bats (film) Vampire Bats (film) Vampire Bats is a 2005 adventure-horror film directed by Eric Bross and starring Lucy Lawless. The film is a sequel to the 2005 film "Locusts". In a Louisiana city, near a bayou, a plague of genetically mutated bats begins to kill the people, then Dr. Maddy Rierdon and her students from colleges work together to kill the bats before the whole city is destroyed. The film begins with an abandoned house, inhabited by a group of vampire bats, which seem to be mutations of the local population. Later, in the forests nearby, people begin to find many