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April 7, 2003

Last week, I went to two bars in Brooklyn that I hadn't previously been to. On Monday, it was Southpaw, a very nice, fairly large, comfortable music venue. There, I caught a nice solo set from John Athayde and his delay pedal. His band, Rotoscope, has tracks from their Stewart Myers-produced demo CD on their website. I still have the "na-na" chorus from Watershed stuck in my head.

On Friday, it was the very convenient Magnetic Field, which is a nice space, had a good DJ spinning, and even has live music occasionally. On Mondays, Magnetic Field has an open turntable night for those aspiring DJs out there.

Before turning the clock ahead, I caught sets from two female singer/songwriters with their bands: Regan and a bit of opener Jude Kastle. Kastle had some good songs and looks great on stage. But the two bands showed an interesting contrast of styles...