The Muggabears, Mancino @ Mercury Lounge - 27 January 2007

Saturday night at Mercury Lounge featured two up and coming three-piece bands from Brooklyn. Both played sets made up of mostly new music, both are getting more media attention and fans by the day, and both bands had really fantastic shows.

The Muggabears
The Muggabears got started early with folks still arriving as they closed out their set. For everyone who missed them - way to scrrrrrrew it up for yourself. It was one of their best performances and the sound was fantastic. I'm already anxious to see them play songs from Night Choreography again. Listen to one below. Watch a video from the show as well (note: the sound is pretty bad given my location in between the speakers and the stage monitors) and read an Ear Farm review of their soon to be released EP Night Choreography HERE.

Listen:
"Dead Kid Kicks"

Watch:
"Now I've Got A Sword" (QT) | "Now I've Got A Sword" (YouTube)

Visit The Muggabears on MySpace.

The Muggabears Live:
16 February @ Union Hall
17 February @ The Delancey
2 March @ Sin-é

*see more pictures of The Muggabears (from this show and others) HERE

Mancino
Mancino was playing an album release show and there was quite a great turnout for it. Good for all of those people because the band played what I'd say was probably their best show to date (and I've seen a few). They nailed the new songs from Manners Matter, worked in an excellent version of "Babel By The Mouthful", and got four fine ladies in the front row dancing to "Hetchie Hutchie Footchie" at the end of their set. As well, they added a second guitarist (Taylor Watson) on their final three songs which rounded out their sound rather nicely. Once again, the Mercury Lounge sound was fantastic. Watch a video of the band playing a song from their soon to be released LP Manners Matter below (note: the sound is again pretty bad given my location in between the speakers and the stage monitors) and read an Ear Farm review of the album HERE.

Listen:
"Hetchie Hutchie Footchie"

Watch:
"Buy My Product" (QT) | "Buy My Product" (YouTube)

Visit Mancino on MySpace.

Mancino Live:
16 February @ Pianos
1 March @ Mercury Lounge

*see more pictures of Mancino (from this show and others) HERE