I'm going back in time

Nancy - Mamba Negra Fashion Week

I've been falling into an unshakable routine with my wife in grad school and my day job in full swing. This leads to me to expect the familiar, and to pass time as best I know how with no disable income: playing Rock Band and feeling like a teenager again. I can't help but love to pieces how the developers of this game, being around my age, took this opportunity to nab all the songs they used to wail into their hairbrushes in their rooms as teens, so we can all do the same as well-adjusted adults to the same songs once again. The Weezer, the Smashing Pumpkins track, hell, even the STP are all great nostalgia trips. But it also brings back a whole sound palette that's harder to come by in the US an era of post-punk drums, vocoders and dirty (by which I mean fantastic) french dance tunes. Fortunately, the rest of the world is picking up the slack. Nancy, a Brazilian five-piece outfit consisting of Camila Zamith, Praxis, Dreaduardo, Munha Fernando and Ricky Ramirez is heavy, saucy, grindy, and lovely. And it's a natural fit for my ears these days. Fortunately for us, they'll be at SXSW this year, with more dates in the US of A to be announced!

So here's to Nancy, and to the weekend!